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postKeep iTerm 2 at fullscreen
One of my favorite (and necessary) tools is iTerm2. I use it all day every day. I recently discovered a neat shortcut that I would like to share here. See what I did to add a little time back to my day and also reduce reaching for the mouse.
October 22nd 2019 | 2:39 pm

postRebuild Sass Color Calculator in React
I finally rebuilt my color application in React. I had been wanting to do that for a long time, but finally got around to it. It was really fun, too. Check out https://sasscolorcalculator.com/ to give it a spin. This application started out as an Angular 1 application and has been trucking along for years. […]
September 19th 2019 | 10:30 am

postSearch a website for a particular text string
Sometimes it is necessary to find a word or text string on a website. You could go through all the pages and manually scan each page but with most sites, this approach simply isn’t a good use of your time. Recently I was asked to find a specific class within the markup. Sometimes the class […]
September 4th 2019 | 11:07 am

postGet Started with Visual Regression Testing with BackstopJS
If you’re more into video tutorials: Let’s say you work on an older, but very much alive, site. You occasionally get tasked with adding features here or enhancing sections there. These are typical tasks from clients. Now in a perfect world, the HTML and CSS would be written in a perfectly extendable way, but […]
August 26th 2019 | 3:12 pm