Geeky Blinders

Category: Technology

  • VS Code Per Language Indentation

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    As a general rule, when I write code I indent with spaces (not tabs) and use a tabstop of 4; these are configured as global settings in VS Code. I think it provides a pretty clear view of things without being overly wasteful of space; it still blows my mind that Vim’s default tabstop is…

  • New iPads With Better Hardware… And It Still Doesn’t Matter

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    Apple released new iPads this week, offering up an iPad Air with an M2 chip and a ridiculous iPad Pro with an M4 chip, something that doesn’t even exist in a Mac yet. This type of hardware is nothing short of ludicrous; I have a MacBook Pro with an M2 Pro processor in it that…

  • Local JavaScript Development CORS Error

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    I’ve recently been on something of a journey to more formalize my knowledge of frontend development. Most of my work has been in backend development, with just a bit of frontend when I needed to build a full stack application; even in those instances, I tried to mess with the interface as little as possible…

  • Proton And Standard Notes Team Up

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    I’m a little late to the party, but I was fairly pleased a couple of weeks ago to see news that Proton was teaming up with Standard Notes to expand the repertoire of the Proton suite. After initially starting off with just email, Proton first evolved to make itself a more fully featured communication suite…

  • Docker standard_init_linux.go Crash

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    I recently found myself running into a strange yet silly problem deploying some code I wrote. The code was Python running in a container on a Cradlepoint router. It worked well for my manual testing, but would immediately crash on the Cradlepoint. Cradlepoints use Docker Swam as their container orchestrator under the hood rather than…

  • Fedora 40 Released

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    Fedora 40 is now officially available! After spending more than a decade mainly using Debian-based distributions on my personal computers, I swapped to Fedora just a few weeks after the release of Fedora 36 after running into a series of issues trying to upgrade Pop!_OS. I’ve been extremely happy with Fedora so far and was…

  • Reconfiguring Vim

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    As I’ve talked about plenty of times before, I tend to use a lot of different text editors when writing code. Lately, I’ve been using VS Code for most of my development needs, mixed with IntelliJ IDEA when I need to write Groovy code since I haven’t found literally any way to get half-decent Groovy…

  • Why Microsoft Teams Is So Annoying To Use

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    In a move undoubtedly designed to quell any further antitrust complaints without actually making much of a significant impact, Microsoft recently announced that they were unbundling Teams from Office 365. New Office 365 subscriptions will not include Teams, though it will remain bundled for any existing customers… which is a lot of them. My first…

  • Jetpack Boost Cache Site Pages

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    Like a lot of people who run sites on WordPress, I use Jetpack with my site to provide benefits like CDN and security. Having used WordPress sites without it before, I can say pretty confidently that not having a CDN can be an absolute nightmare when it comes to performance, especially when using a lower…

  • Proton VPN With TP-Link AX3000

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    I’ve been using a TP-Link Archer AX3000 router to power my home network for a couple of years now. I’ve been extremely pleased with the device, and it’s honestly exceeded all of my (admittedly low) expectations as far as consumer networking gear goes. That being said, once I got everything configured shortly after procuring the…