• git tip: Delete merged branches

    Jan 26, 2016

    If you want to delete your local branches that have already been merged to master remotely, run this in a bash shell:

  • Using wget to detect broken links

    Jan 24, 2016

    To make sure I didn’t forget any images in the blog migration, I used wget to detect broken links. Better safe than sorry! Simply run:

  • Migrated back to Wordpress

    Jan 23, 2016

    I’ve just migrated my blog back to Wordpress. I had been using Jekyll for quite some time now.

  • Keepass - open source without VCS?

    Dec 17, 2015

    For reasons that are not important, I have managed to be dependent on two different password managers: Keepass and KeepassX. Wanting to get rid of one of them, I started looking around in their websites.

  • Recording animated gifs in ubuntu

    Sep 7, 2015

    Last week I wanted to do a small screen recording on my Ubuntu desktop and save it as an animated gif. I tried ScreenToGif but that didn’t work in Ubuntu, it threw an exception when I pressed the record button. I found a good solution in this askubuntu question and I’m building on top of it to make it as easy as right clicking on a video file.

  • Introducing generator-csharp-cli-app

    Sep 6, 2015

    In the weekend I experimented with Yeoman and I created my first generator. This is also the first time I publish a package to the official npm repository, so double fun.

  • Windows Live Photo Gallery Folder Location

    Aug 29, 2015

    If, for whatever reason, you want to force Windows Live Photo Gallery to rebuild its database, you can just delete the folder where it stores its settings. The folder location is:

  • Syncing Sublime Text 3 with Git

    Aug 17, 2015

    I use Sublime Text 3 at home and at work. I use it on many computers and platforms. In this kind of setup, maintaining a consistent configuration across multiple installations can be a challenge. It just doesn’t feel right, when you switch to work on a different laptop and suddenly some package is missing here or some setting is different there. You want to simply have the same settings everywhere, without spending too much time on configuration.

  • Maven Tips

    Jun 14, 2015

    I started using Maven at work recently. Being a newbie, I find myself googling constantly (even though the answer is always on StackOverflow) about basic things. For reference, these are my most needed actions so far:

  • View .NET assembly version on Ubuntu

    Aug 3, 2014

    When you want to view the assembly version of a .NET assembly in Windows, you just right click the DLL and view its properties. Or, you just hover the mouse over the file and the version number will be shown in the tooltip. In Linux, things aren’t as easy.