Homebrew (or brew) for MacOS is great, but one thing I dislike is how it can upgrade to a major release of say Node.js or Perl. This usually comes with a lot of incompatibility issues because not all modules you’ve got installed work yet or require reinstalling. To switch to an older version you can …
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If you’re using the excellent htmx library for adding interactivity to your website or webapp you greatly benefit from using a templating engine that supports rendering fragments (I suggest reading this first if you don’t know yet about fragments and why they’re useful, especially in the context of htmx). Using fragments you’ll be able to …
There’s a free open source tool called imapsync that let’s you copy mail from one IMAP server to another. I’ve used this tool a lot when migrating e-mailaccounts to another server. Aside from copying e-mails from one server to another you can also keep them in sync. Check out the manpage for imapsync to see …
On type of query I always have to run when moving a website from its test environment to its live environment is to replace the test domain in all content pages with the live domain. With SQL this can be easily done with the REPLACE(text, search, substitution) function. For example: UPDATE some_table SET some_field = …
Occasionally when I copy and paste something from an external source into Vim every line gets indented, which is probably not something you want when pasting a code snippet. The solution to this problem is an easy one. Before pasting, first execute :set paste, then paste your content and to return the setting to its …
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