Against entropy.
Typos and misspellings in code can be difficult. Finding them and keeping them out takes vigilance. Lots of mental energy wasted. The misspellings tool written in Python can be installed using pip install misspellings. This tool looks for commonly misspelled words in source code. It has a built-in list of common spelling mistakes. Example: List …
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TL;DR: When Bundler has fixes in master that you need, use the specific_install Rubygems plugin to install and use Bundler directly from a git branch. Example Travis YAML configuration excerpt: before_install: – gem update –system – gem install specific_install – gem specific_install https://github.com/bundler/bundler.git I will spend the rest of this post unpacking what the above means. …
Here, a listicle of advice you never asked for! A method to locate and fix linting errors in Rubocop one at a time: choose a “cop” from the .rubocop_todo.yml file remove the line which includes the .rubocop_todo.yml rubocop –only Lint/IneffectiveAccessModifier fix issues and test fixes with the –only invocation rubocop –auto-gen-config to regenerate the .rubocop_todo.yml …
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Tonight, I made it to Homebrew Website Club hosted at inUse in Malmö. I was greeted by three kind souls, among them a proprietor of a Lego fan website with a 176 contributors – and Pelle and Emil. The club format is the same every time: first an hour of social or at-your-computer time. Then …
Not even once! Run relevant code-checking tools on your code, before it is even checked in locally. Using the Ruby project Overcommit, you can set this up on your own machine in a jiffy. Or, read more about git hooks. I took these steps: Install the overcommit gem in your active Ruby. gem i overcommit …
On Wednesday, I once again journey south, to Poznan in Central Europe, to participate in the PolyConf programming conference. As every year, it is about getting new perspective on things, from happy and grumpy people in the field. The field of computering. I’m lucky to see some familiar faces in the list of people going there, and …
I celebrate beginning to use child themes, again.
In order for Homebrew to locate the right header files, we have to present them to the pkg-config system. This short tutorial introduces a fix and an explanation.
#kod100 is a thing. In Sweden. “Do FOSS stuff for a hundred consecutive days.” Keeping a log of it is optional. So, I’m dusting off WordPress. And trying. Things experienced in this session: Use the wp-cli command-line tool to manage WordPress. Until it’s completely package-stable, use it from the Git repository. Fine instructions at their …
If you’ve been plagued by unwanted ad notifications in your Android device, identify the culprit with AirPush Detector. Then you know what to uninstall. Just had a success with it. It’s Open Source, too.