This year my partner and I have been looking into buying an apartment and we quickly realised that the tools to help that process were severly lacking. Problems and issues...
Here are some useful things for computer usage which might be too small in themselves for a separate blog post. Table of contents Browser profiles Browser start page Temporary pasteboard...
I like creating small purpose built tools if there is no clear alternative with the same feature set. Some of the tools I’ve made: Markdown to RTF Convert Markdown to...
At one point I was trying to figure out a good way to do a quick, smooth and hassle free demo of a mobile app feature. The simple way is...
When connecting to external displays, I commonly have the issue that windows are spread around in a unwanted order which can be annoying with large screens and projectors. I’m using...
For some time I’ve had a bookmarklet that copies the title of the webpage and it’s URL to the clipboard to store more details about the link in notes, since...
Console messages in the browser console can be stylised to better indicate their context and meaning of the message. console.log('%c Test message', 'background: #222; color: #bada55'); Test message console.log('%c Test...
I’ve been trying to figure out a note taking system that works for me and I think I’ve found a roughly working and sustainable solution (at least for now). Previously...
Recently Insomnia went from supporting storing data locally and using the application without an account into a cloud only1, requiring an account, migrating user’s local collections to cloud. If the...
I’ve had a want and a need to get the rendered output of a Markdown preview copied to the clipboard so that it can directly be used in most places,...
I used to end up with a lot of unsaved files and tabs in my editor filled with the content that doesn’t really have a place and wasn’t important enough...
I had manually removed and created AppSync API keys via the AWS Console and in the project we use Serverless Framework for developing & deplying. This manual change caused the...
Recently I’ve been writing my own plain text & Markdown writing application and have had the need to apply certain edits to the text. These include Markdown formatting, sorting lines,...
Recently had a need for a quick and handy way for opening applications and folders. While Spotlight on macOS is good, it can sometimes query from too large of a...
~230 km patikointia ja 7000 kuvaa myöhemmin muutama ajatus Peak Designin Capture (V3) -kamerapidikkeestä: Capturella saa kameran kiinnitettyä vyölle tai repun hihnaan, jolloin se on pois tieltä, ei heilu ja...
Hotkey bind to set window to a specific size is easy & convenient to make with Hammerspoon and works nicely if you only need few sizes and use similar resolution...
Last fall I got a well used 2nd hand Fujifilm X100F that the previous owner had forgotten on top of a car during a trip to Chile and the camera...
Shorts can be hidden from YouTube with the following CSS and the Stylus browser extension (Firefox, Chrome). You can still access shorts on the channel page, but they will be...
Script that gathers all the windows of the currently active application from the screen where the cursor is located, sets them to the first window’s size, moves the first window...
Recently I’ve been playing around with using Hammerspoon for window management in macOS and it works quite nicely & is pleasant to use. The problem I caused by myself for...
macOS has a built-in scriptable image processing system (sips), which can be used to query and modify raster images. I made a small shell function that takes the filename, wanted...
I can be quite bad at tracking and keeping time, so over time I’ve learned to use timers and alarms to get by. Without any alarms or set notifications, I...
Design thinking is a user-centered approach and framework to problem-solving. It helps designers create solutions that address a real user problem and are functional and affordable. Overview of design thinking...
When I started working from home, I didn’t have space for a dedicated workspace or work desk, so I had to use a single set of peripherals for both my...
UX design is an umbrella term which encompasses multiple terms within itself. Visual design Focuses on how the product looks. Colors, fonts, shapes, textures, hierarchy, balance, contrast, scale, unity &...
I quite enjoy writing CSS, so I’m trying to replicate some known web interfaces and today I made a clone of TweetDeck. The clone has no functionality and the icons...
Here are some examples of the UI & UX design work I’ve done. Location based recruitment application: Game streaming service web UI we made in UI design course at University:...
Monitoror is an unified monitoring wallboard with support for basic HTTP requests, ICMP ping, port scanning, Azure DevOps Github, Gitlab, Jenkins and Pingdom support. With these features you could create...
If you use vscode on multiple systems, can’t install the application system wide, want to have multiple versions or to have a default starting point for extensions & settings, portable...
nnn (repository, releases, wiki) is a fast terminal file manager written in C and can run on pretty much every platform. While it would at first seem like terminal tools...
With a lot of 60% keyboards it can be hard to access the arrow and navigation keys, so this is a guide how to add your own custom arrow keys...
Markdown is a simple markup language for writing documents and the original & official specification was made by John Gruber with help from Aaron Swartz, but the specification is a...
Since the amount of remote work and remote meetings has increased, having good quality microphone and headphones is even more important for yourself and especially for the other people listening...
The difference between CSS variables and SASS variables are that CSS variables are passed as is to the client and they’re interpreted by the client browser, while with SASS the...
These are scripts to install Docker, Node and other software for fullstack development. get-Docker.sh (run as superuser) #!/bin/sh set -e # This script is meant for quick & easy install...
Here are the slides from Usability Basics -course presentation
If you’ve never used any other operating system than Windows, then it might feel weird or confusing when closing a window on macOS doesn’t close the application. This is because...
Hei, Tässä olisi pieni tekstinpätkä omista kokemuksista käyttää Raspberry Pi:tä media PC:nä.
Excerpt from the full post which is in finnish
This post covers the most common network topologies, their advantages and disadvantes.
