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dependencies vs devDependencies

dependencies vs devDependencies

npm or yarn, the dilemma is always the same, is this a dependency or a dev dependency?

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Update Ghost blog on Webfaction

Update Ghost blog on Webfaction

The moment arrived, you want to update your Ghost blog, what to do?

.dotfiles - one to rule them all

.dotfiles - one to rule them all

My personal repository to rule all the dotfiles and set up my working environment in a matter of seconds.

Git: How to delete all the merged branches

Git: How to delete all the merged branches

Who has a repository without dead already merged branches? Admit it, almost no one. In my team, especially since we decided to move to git flow[1], this ideal situation rarely happens. It is not that uncommon forget to delete a merged branch from remote, it happens to everyone. But

Movember

I want to get MOassive! As every year since 2012, this November I cover myself of shame for sustaining Movember cause. This included random people stopping me on the streets asking if I was the actor starring in Narcos (even if they discovered the truth they wanted a couple of

Git: How to get all the changes on a branch

Git: How to get all the changes on a branch

Working in a multi-branch system with git sometimes could become tricky to understand exactly what is/was going on in a particular branch. Usually, at the moment of the code-review, I want to be able to understand what exactly happened since the branch was created from master (or any other

How to install User Scripts

How to install User Scripts

Since userscript.org suddenly disappeared, a couple of years ago, and without a valid alternative on the horizon, I was creating (and maintaining) my little scripts only as Google Extensions (Shame on me). In the last couple of weeks, I had the exigency of using one of my scripts for

W3C Validation with Gulp

W3C Validation with Gulp

Since I was working on my thesis on Assistive Technology during my University days I was kind of obsesses on validating my HTML (and CSS) using W3C tools. And proudly show the nowadays old fashioned W3C Badges: Now that Front End building tools (i.e. Gulp) are integrated in almost

Gulp Blacklist Marker

Gulp Blacklist Marker

Chrome extension that marks blacklisted Gulp modules when browsing NPM and GitHub. A bit of Story (TL;DR) It has been a while since I moved from Grunt to Gulp on my day to day build routine. The first time that I did the "big jump" I've started trying to

Reasons.to 2015

One of the biggest sources of inspiration for this month was the conference reason.to[1]. I've to admit that I was a bit skeptic about it, I put it on my conference plan mainly because of the location (old street, I went there by walk) and the price (~£80

Sproxify

Sproxify intercepts Spotify’s links and let you choose where to play it. Recently Spotify released a slick-looking web app to allow music aficionados listening to their favorite tracks on web browsers, so finally Linux users could take advantage of this awesome service too. The only issue? Sharing links between

Shazamify (a.k.a. Zamify)

Shazamify (a.k.a. Zamify)

Shazamify allows you to play your Shazams in Spotify, directly from the browser. Shazamify adds a small Spotify icon to every Shazam track page and allows you to play that track directly in Spotify. UPDATE 5: I had to publish a new extension as the old one was costantly taken