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2025

Google/Google Photos

Google products seem to slowly become worse, examples: Gmail no longer recognizes flight itineraries. Google Photos: Removed the map view. Doesn’t let you easily delete all photos. Doesn’t offer a simple way to downlo...

PowerShell quirk 2

tl;dr Let's say you have a File[1].txt file and you would like to read it. Get-Content "File[1].txt" ^ this returns nothing Why? PowerShell interprets [] as special characters. A range in this case. PowerShell is actu...

git goodies

git branch -d `git branch | grep feature` # delete all branches with feature in its name git branch | grep feature | xargs git branch -d # same as ^ git push origin --delete branchXYZ # git push origin :branchXYZ git ...

escape!

Why is escaping a character called escaping a character? When a C compiler (or any other compiler) encounters a " it thinks to it self "huh, this is the begninning or end of a string!". Say you need " in your string? ...

npm wsl EAI_AGAIN

Running npm ci on WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) failed with: npm ERR! syscall getaddrinfo npm ERR! errno EAI_AGAIN npm ERR! request to http://registry.npmjs.org/nodemon failed, reason: getaddrinfo EAI_AGAIN regist...

Post25

1024 * 1024 - this many bytes is an mibibyte (MiB). A megabyte like a megameter is 10^6 bytes. We all frequently say megabyte meaning a mibibyte. Like wise a kilobyte != kibibyte Unit Abbreviation Size in Bytes Kibiby...

Some neat fsx F#

My company had a hackathon focused on data scraping/processing. Each team had to scrape 3 endpoints. I came up with something similar to this: open System open System.Net.Http open System.Text let c = new HttpClient()...

PowerShell Gotcha! - dynamic scoping

PowerShell uses dynamic scoping. Yet the about_Scopes page doesn't mention the word "dynamic". Wird (wird - so weird that you need to misspell weird to get your point across). tl;dr; In PowerShell variables are copied...

Post22

W chatce w lesie siedzi Pan Nie odzywa się do nikogo bo jest sam Myśli ciężkie, głowa pogrążona w chorobie Zaraz zawiśnie na grobie Wspomnienia zaplątane same w sobie Siedzi, mruga, własną głowę zruga Pora zaraz będzi...

Post21

blood stains in the snow you left a few jumping home for me to remember the last walk snow will melt soon this memory I will not let fade you were loved and you loved us too of that I'm sure it's a tough call to let y...

Environment variable

but only in a specific directory The idea - use the Prompt function to check if you're in a specific dir and set/unset an env var: function Prompt { $currentDir = Get-Location if ("C:\git\that-special-dir" -eq $curren...