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Styling with CSS in 2018

In an effort to revamp my websites, I have ventured into looking at current state of the CSS art. I have been picking up Bootstrap by default for more than a while. At some point, I was very impressed by Metro/Modern design language that Microsoft was adopting and thus used Metro UI CSS 2.0 for my … Continue reading Styling with CSS in 2018 →

Disqus + GitHub pages

Today I was trying to add a comment section in one of my GitHub pages site. Turns out it is very easy. All you have to do is sign up a disqus account and head here. Then add the following text in _layouts/default.html: https://gist.github.com/nafSadh/75a614b5b7583f1650e528a6bbd880a0 Use the following front material on the page you want the … Continue reading Disqus + GitHub pages →

Avoid VS Code asking GitHub credentials all the time

git config --global credential.helper cache

Culmination of next stage of world stability

As we have seen in last couple of centuries, every few long decades the world undergoes some kind of stability shift. This may mean a shift in how government works, or how economy works or can be a change is global power dynamics, as we have most recently seen with the conclusion of cold war … Continue reading Culmination of next stage of world stability →

Sorting algorithm visualizations

This is essentially a bookmark post. Many awesome people out there create wonderful visualizations, often about sorting; and they are very pleasing to stare at. This is from a redditor, morolin: This famous one is from Timo Bingmann, a doctoral student at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology:

The day I removed Cygwin from my %PATH%

I was trying to fix some issues with iamisti/mdDataTable. It was last updated in Dec 2016, and I was facing problem with even basic use of it. It worked when I made some very little tweaks in the dist JavaScript. So, I forked the repo hoping I can add these fixes. So, there was npm … Continue reading The day I removed Cygwin from my %PATH% →

hg commit count in a directory

Today I needed to find the number of commits per file in a directory. Doing that by going into each files' mercurial log and counting manually is a incredibly boring chore. But, the following PowerShell script came to save my life: If gist embed is not working above, click here.

Python to get the source code of a webpage

Most high-level languages has built-in or standard library support to read from URL. Reading resources from web today as ubiquitous as reading from files. https://gist.github.com/nafSadh/d707b9e507c42c990625dfe50f4af67a originally posted on Quora

Describe table structure in MS SQL Server

I liked the describe MyTable in MySQL and missed it on SQL Server when I started to work with it. Turns out, there is a way to do the same there as well: This is not exactly the same as describe MyTable but it serves similar purpose.

Irony of language fondness

There is an irony about fondness of language in a programmer’s life. I am not very particular about any programming language, I can read and understand and code in quite a few of those. But, my affection is not same for every language I know, and there is the irony. My favorite language is C++. … Continue reading Irony of language fondness →

Running Node.js app as a service forever

When you start a Node.js server simply using node app.js, the server stops as soon as the shell session is killed. But if you want to keep you server running, as a server would naturally should, you need some way to keep the server proc alive. Forever is seemingly a popular choice for running a … Continue reading Running Node.js app as a service forever →