You don't have to know a lot about tmux I certainly don't, yet for the past 3 years it's been one of my favourite productivity tools. Put simply, it's like a window manager for your terminal. No longer will you be burdened
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Practicing Pair Code Review Sometimes in the following I sound like i’m stating facts. Please infer an ‘in my opinion’ in front of everything you read here. If you disagree, awesome, let me know because I’
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Private isn't always so private in Java There's a few things I take for granted as a backend Java developer. IntelliJ > eclipse, by the time I get back to frontend JS - it's all changed again, and finally in
cooking Pizza: Yummo Fetta Pizza Dough 1.5 cups flour - high gluten teaspoon salt pinch of sugar 5/8 cup water (warm) + 1 tsp yeast knead, mix, etc. Frozen, then thawed for later. Pizza half red onion
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Covariant & Contravariant Before we get into the Co/Contra-variants we should quikcly go thorugh sub and super types. public class Bird {} public class Duck extends Bird {} In this case, Bird is a superclass of Duck.
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RSA Explained using Examples RSA provides a fantastic method for allowing public key cryptography. For many years it was a debated topic whether it was possible at *all* to create a scheme for public cryptography. But in
git Git Hooks with Python Git hooks have long provided the ability for you to validate commits, perform continuous integration, continuous deployment and any number of other arbitrary actions. Git hooks are often run as a bash script.
gradle Testing With Gradle I love Android. I also think that testing is super duper. For this reason I've always been a big fan of attempting to find ways to perform better testing. Whether this be through
Getting Started Woops & Ghost Whoops Never trust shared hosting solutions. They generally suck and mean when you have a dead installation of something (maybe even wordpress?) that you're unable to properly recover. This now sits in the
