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Sometimes in mb_convert_encoding($str, 'UTF-8', 'auto') that latest auto argument won’t work.

The title is a little bit misleading though.

If you want to know the handler of a particular route you need to run this in your terminal: php artisan route:list | grep 'route.name' Replace route.name with your route name.

I’m on Ubuntu 18.04 having PostgreSQL 10.10 installed.

Vim’s autocmd is very powerful feature.

Here is few lines you need to add to your .bashrc/.zshrc/.whatevershellrc: if [[ -z "$TMUX" ]] && [ "$SSH_CONNECTION" !

Just met this nice article by Laurie Voss called You suck at technical interviews.

Today I decided to port my Firefox extension to Google Chrome.

Watching videos on Youtube I’ve noticed I influenced a lot by paying attention to a video rating.

Turned out I use git grep a lot with my VIM (using EasyGrep plugin).

hey, I currently use Windows machine but I do programming inside Linux virtual machine and inside MacOS driven laptop (some iOS specific stuff) which is in the same room where I am and connected to the local network.

Sometimes my VNC client just shows me Mac’s login screen with infinitely loading animation.

Hi everyone, I was looking for an app that should allow me to set a quick reminder without any additional functionality.

Hi, Unfortunately there is no way currently to make brilliant notify-send work on WSL.

Sometimes it’s annoying to get those warnings while you work on the layout stuff.

I have to note it, it’s just brilliant!

Hi, if you use tmux you could notice that every time you create new window it starts in the directory where you initiated your Tmux session.

Hi, I didn’t use folding functionality previously at all in any other editors, but after I watched this awesome video by Greg Hurrell I found this Vim feature super useful.

hi everyone, I’m currently using Vim in my day to day work, and if you don’t know I migrated from another perfect editor called Emacs.

Hey, I’ve just been looking for a good plugin that can help me to configure some VIM variables per project.

If your web site isn’t receiving the notifications from Ebay even though you have everything configured AND you’re using oAuth tokens for SetNotificationsPreferences request then you have nothing to do except contact the Ebay support.

I’m currently trying to use Vim instead of Emacs and one of important workflow I’ve used to is grepping things in a project.

If you didn’t look at Part 1 of this post please check it out.

The problem I’m not a huge fan of questions on interviews similar to: do you know X did you use Y what is the difference between X and Y etc… Live coding is not something I like as well due to some reasons.

Hi everyone, so here are two basic commands you can wrap in functions or anything else to run/stop VM of VMWare Workstation.

The issue The Windows 10 search is not working.

Hey, The project link https://github.com/KryDos/laradock-helper is the project repo.

Hey everyone.

Hey, recently I’ve posted about jq and today I’m going to explain how I used it to parse JSON from web (retrieved with CURL) and turn it to CSV.

Hey, The problem Recently I wanted to create separated “window” for my weechat so I can easily alt-tab to it.

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Hey, Sometimes I check HTTP responses with CURL so it would be great to format JSON responses.

I’m on Ubuntu 17.10 right now and sometimes after suspend I’m getting no sound and only dummy device available. pulseaudio -k && sudo alsa force-reload - execute this to fix the issue.

Hi, Switching from Gnome3 to AwesomeWM I’ve noticed that key repeat frequency is lower on AwesomeWM.

Hey, sometimes I accidentaly print binary file with cat <thefile.bin> and my terminal is getting broken after that due to printing of some escape characters.

If you like me and use CTRL-P/CTRL-N instead of arrow keys to navigate through command history, you should be disappointed on how CTRL-P works in docker terminal (the one you see after docker run, docker exec).

Hey, just found a command for gdb that prints a string from memory address.

Hey everyone.

Recently I wanted to print disassembled main funciton of the program to the file so I can read it in my Emacs, but it turned out I can’t simply redirect the GDB output to the file with disassemble main > main.asm command in gdb command line.

Here is post about how to make circled image with css.

Really, really awesome blog post from Julia Evans about working remotely.

Recently I’ve switched through a lot of different OS setups and my projects list in Spacemacs was bloated.

If you use GDB you definitely have to try Dashboard package by Andrea Cardaci.

I use VirtualBox and do some testing and learning with multiple machines running at once.

Here is command to run from CLI to get ifconfig output on guest machine (with ubuntu server): vboxmanage guestcontrol <vm name> run --exe '/sbin/ifconfig' --username <username> --password <pass> **Make sure GAs are installed on the guest** You can write…

Hey, Just switched to Firefox and tried to find the way how I can replace the start page.

Hey, recently I’ve switched to Windows and trying to adapt WSL (linux subsystem) to make it play together with my habits.

Hey, Recently I had to use bash alias that contains $(pwd) inside so I’ve defined it like that: alias thename="something $(pwd) --option=value" Of course I know a bit of bash so that’s why I use double quotes!

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