Turn Bluetooth On and Off from Command Line on macOS
6.11.2018
Bluetooth has been a revelation in wireless technology: wireless mice, headphones, streaming devices, and a variety of home and office environments. It goes without saying that wireless peripherals are so much easier to manage than wired counterparts, especially mice, that I usually have...
Get Up and Win
5.11.2018
Down on my hands and knees, I crawl around, bleeding out. I’m resigned to my fate. A kind stranger, a new friend, rushes over to me and kneels to help, reviving me at a time that didn’t require it. Just as I’m revived, the kind stranger says “Get up and win”. I...
WDRL — Edition 247: The Mixed Faces of Technology, of Humans, of Wilderness.
2.11.2018
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This week shows all the interesting sides of technology: We’re learning about challenges with Service Workers, how to properly build error pages that are not frustrating for users, how too simple implementations by developers can lead to dangerous security loops that could influence politics...
17 Designers with Fantastic Side Projects
29.10.2018
It’s important to have something outside of work for all of us, like a hobby or a side project. It keeps us sane; it keeps us creative. What you...
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Lessons in Failure: Removing the Old Debugger from Firefox
29.10.2018
Joining the Firefox DevTools team was a dream come true for me. I shared why in the first episode of the Script & Style show but the quick summary is that I grew up loving Firefox (even before it was called “Firefox”) because Mozilla cared about developers via their early developer...
Mercurial: Mass Add and Remove All Files
29.10.2018
While I much prefer git and the GitHub workflow, Firefox’s codebase (mozilla-central) is store in a mercurial repository. There are tools that wrap mercurial so you can use a git-like interface, like git-cinnabar, but my philosophy is to learn the root tool so that I know what’s going...
WDRL — Edition 246: Custom Elements News, React lazy Method, The `prefers-color-scheme` Media Query And Human Customer Support
26.10.2018
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The web is fascinating. Just when you think there’s not much news happening right now you’re proved wrong. This week brings massive news for how we can work with Custom Elements given the very good fresh support in Firefox (along with Chrome which has support since a while already) and some...
Change Mac Brightness from Command Line
24.10.2018
Earlier this week I posted about how you can modify your Mac’s volume from command line. Little command line scripts make me smile because I spend so much of my day in command line, and automation can be the key to productivity. I next thought about modifying brightness from command line...
Find and Change Default App for File Type from Command Line
23.10.2018
There are few things more frustrating to any computer user than files opening in an unwanted application. Sure you can use the Open menu item in the desired application but we all just want to double-click a file and see it open in the application we expect. I recently got to thinking about this...
Real-time Geolocation & Reverse IP Lookup with ipapi (Sponsored)
22.10.2018
There’s an incredible amount you can do when you know where your web visitor is located. You can target advertising to the user, you can load maps of nearby search queries, you can localize website verbiage, you can customize content for their region, etc. I guess what I’m trying...
What does Stack Overflow want to be when it grows up?
22.10.2018
I sometimes get asked by regular people in the actual real world what it is that I do for a living, and here's my 15 second answer:
We built a sort of Wikipedia website for computer programmers to post questions and answers. It's called Stack Overflow.
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WDRL — Edition 245: Chrome 70, Postgres 11, Cognitive Differences And Being Tracked Anyway
19.10.2018
Hey,
Autumn has fully arrived in Germany now and while I’m writing this outside of the window it’s cold and foggy. And coincidentally, I’ve been knocked down by some cold and was ill this week. So I’m going to keep this short and direct you to the links this week:
News
Chrome 70 is out...