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node.js syntax checker bug about shadowing in private fields 2026-06-24 · Chris Finally understood an issue I was encountering, that in my opinion is a bug and super confusing and deceptive.

AI hype 2026-06-13 · Chris Loosely inspired by Prime's video about I Think They Are Lying To You and more personal opinions that were occupying my mind for last few months.

How to fix hanging tests in Node.js 2025-08-20 · Chris Some context: you might want to test your node.js application in an integration test and your code might have a setInterval call to repeatedly perform an action.

How to use an iPad Pro as an external display 2025-08-15 · Chris TLDR; Get an USB-C HDMI capture card Install Orion on your iPad Pro and open it Connect the HDMI cable from the capture card to the HDMI port on your device If you're using a Mac, start mirr…

Implementing HTTP range requests in Node.js 2025-06-18 · Chris Ever paused a download, to later resume it?

Crazy CSS experiments 2024-12-19 · Chris The following Codepen's are quite old (mostly done in 2012/2013 when I was super into CSS and getting started with programming), but are super cool.

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How to install Epic Games store on iPad with iOS 18 2024-09-14· Updated 2024-10-12 · Chris If you navigate to store.epicgames.com on an iPad with iOS 18 beta you'll have the ability to scan a QR code on your iPhone to download Epic's app store.

Exclude specific tags in Eleventy using a custom filter 2024-09-21 · Chris Let's say you have an eleventy blog, and want to show the tags related to a given blog post.

Converting my Kindle to a digital photo frame 2024-09-15 · Chris Recently I converted my old Kindle Paperwhite 3 (jailbroken) to a Tapo surveillance cam viewer.

Start Kindle script on system boot with init.d 2024-09-15 · Chris To manage your custom Kindle scripts I found the following trick super useful.

Display jailbroken Kindle info using lipc-get-prop 2024-09-14 · Chris On my jailbroken Kindle I wanted to display information about it (e.g. its IP address, battery level etc.)

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Displaying RTSP stream on a jailbroken Kindle Paperwhite 2024-09-13 · Chris As crazy/stupid as it sounds, I did it.

Display IP address on a jailbroken Kindle using eips 2024-09-11 · Chris Wanna get started fiddling around with your freshly jailbroken Kindle?

Rooted / Jailbroke my Kindle Paperwhite 2024-08-28 · Chris Found a way to make good use of my older Kindle Paperwhite 3 thanks to the Jailbreak "LanguageBreak" You need to be at version 5.16.2.1.1 or else you're effed.

How to add a TP-link Tapo camera to homeassistant 2024-08-03 · Chris After struggling to add my tp-link tapo devices (specifically cameras) to my homeassistant instance, found a way to get everything working properly.

PETG I love you, but you're bringing me down 2024-07-11 · Chris I really do like 3d-printing stuff, but lately I had some trouble with PETG.

Google domains / Squarespace transfer (using Porkbun and Cloudflare) 2024-07-07 · Chris Squarespace acquired Google Domains this year..

Google Sheets on iPad?

Google Sheets got fixed on iPad 2024-02-13· Updated 2024-06-27 · Chris update: just found out why it was slow Yess!

Today is my Lucky Backup Day 2024-01-26 · Chris Today is my lucky backup day.

ZenGPT: a simple ChapGPT alternative frontend 2023-10-17· Updated 2023-10-22 · Chris I've been playing around with a home-made, super simple ChatGPT UI clone, mainly with the excuse to try out htmx and Alpine.js It's a fun little project that I've been wo…

htmx and Alpine.js are actually pretty awesome 2023-10-19 · Chris I've been using htmx and Alpine.js in the past few weeks, and I have to say, they're pretty awesome.

My iPad/iOS 17 wish list for 2024 2023-09-27· Updated 2023-10-16 · Chris I've been using an iPad Pro since the beginning of 2023 and it's been a great experience so far.

iPad can now control the audio when connected to an external monitor 2023-10-15· Updated 2023-10-16 · Chris Today I noticed I can finally listen audio on my iPad when connected to an external display!

Using pure functions as views (with htmx and alpine.js) 2023-10-16 · Chris In the past days I got my hands dirty with htmx and alpine.js It was super refreshing and an smooth learning curve.

3d printed stuff over the years 2023-10-06· Updated 2023-10-13 · Chris Cable reel It took 5+ hours to print all three parts for the bigger version, and perhaps 2 for the small one.

Improving my tags using OpenAI's Chat completions API 2023-10-08 · Chris Here I want to share how I slightly improved the tags on each of my blog posts.

ChatGPT for learning Jamaican Patois 2023-10-07 · Chris Wah gwaan, man?

A stupid web component 2023-10-06 · Chris Below you can find a stupid simple web component, that's it. -- On this page I defined the following template: <template> <style> #cig-component-container button { font-size: 1.5rem; } #cig-com…

Apple watch personal use cases 2023-10-04 · Chris Here I want to write down my personal use cases for the Apple watch. -- View time as you please, together with other widgets, analogue, or plain vanilla digits.

Protonmail iOS team seems super reactive to user feedback 2023-09-19 · Chris Have been using Protonmail since 2020 I think, and it's been a positive experience.

Southworking 2023-09-14 · Chris Per fare soldi?

Learning about Web Components 2023-08-25 · Chris For now this is just a collection of useful links while organizing my thoughts on web components. learning https://www.webcomponents.org/ https://javascript.info/shadow-dom https://developer.mozilla.org/en-…

MiCA pizza e fichi 2023-04-21· Updated 2023-07-26 · Chris Alcuni lo chiamano MiCA, altri MiCAR.

Unblock single domain in AdGuard Home 2023-07-24 · Chris Needed to unblock t.co because it was getting annoying over time.

Airtag battery still low after replacing with new CR 2032 batteries 2023-07-08 · Chris Upon receiving the notification of low battery on your Airtag, you purchase fresh CR 2032 batteries, unpack them, and proceed to replace the Airtag battery.

Opinions on working fully remotely 2023-07-03 · Chris The COVID-19 pandemic changed the way we work, forcing many organizations to adopt remote work as the new norm.

Favorite music while programming 2023-06-27 · Chris Below you can find my favorite channels I use to listen to music while programming You can even rap about Node.js and JavaScript on these beats if you feel like it 😅 Anabolic Beatz My all-time favorite p…

WebAuthn and Secure Payments Confirmation (SPC) 2023-06-15 · Chris The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has introduced a RC version of the web standard called Secure Payment Confirmation (SPC) to streamline user authentication and improve security when mak…

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About 1:1s 2023-06-09 · Chris Let's talk about weekly 1:1s.

Modern frontend apps with ES modules and import maps 2023-05-03 · Chris With import maps you can map external module names to their relative URLs, on a CDN for example, which makes it super easy to use external modules, natively in 2023.

Provisioning a Raspberry Pi with Ansible (and an iPad) 2023-04-20 · Chris The repository accompaining this blog post can be found on GitHub It contains the whole code to get your Raspberry Pi up and running with Docker and Docker Compose, set it up for ne…

My impractical RSS reader in Google Sheets 2023-04-20 · Chris While exploring how to build an RSS reader, I stumbled across the idea of using Google Sheets to display RSS feed content.

Node.js 20 is here 2023-04-19 · Chris Node.js 20 has been released, and it brings several new features and improvements for developers.

How to add Node.js & npm to jekyll in GitHub Codespaces 2023-03-25 · Chris You can use GitHub CodeSpaces to develop your Jekyll site.

Self-hosting miniflux with docker and provisioning with Ansible 2023-03-25 · Chris I have been using miniflux for a while now, and I really like it.

ChatGPT practical use cases and examples 2023-03-25 · Chris Found this discussion on HackerNews about "How are you using GPT to be productive?"