input Quickie: JS - input change Many developers try to handle change of input value with change or keyup/keydown event listeners. Well, that's not enough. You can change the value also by: dropping selected text, copying it to
semantics HTML I'd like to make a small series of correct markup / semantic HTML. I have many drafts of smaller parts and will publish them later. So here is a small introduction to them. I
rsync Quickie: Rsync Just a command to help you backup / archive your server. sudo rsync -avhe 'ssh -i /home/user/.ssh/id_rsa -p 2222' \ --numeric-ids \ --progress \ admin@your.server.tld:/path/to/your/data/ \ /path/
toFixed Quickie: JavaScript decimal multiplication Another oddity of JavaScript I found. Multiplying decimal numbers can be tricky (or malicious?). Order of numbers can matter in multiplication. // order #1 135*1.15*10.5 // = 1630.125 // order #2 1.
quickie Quickie: shortened "for" and "if" If Today after debugging minified JS code I discovered an interesting way to write ifs: var i = 0; var s = 'foo'; if (s === 'bar') { i = 1; } can also be written: var i = 0;
swarm Leaving Swarm My little story of why I switched to Docker Swarm. And few weeks later left it for "standard Docker". First I had one server, which ran Docker. I used nginx-proxy image
php PHP - static vs self PHP's difference between static and self. class Mom { private const DEFAULT_AGE = 21; public static function getName(): string { return 'Alice'; } public function tellAge(int $age = self::DEFAULT_AGE): string { return 'My age is:
php Quickie: a = b || c This little post can be handy specially for full-stack devs, who use JS and PHP. PHP being a requirement here. Do you know what happens when you assign OR-logical expression to a variable?
meter Correct markup - <meter> vs <progress> What's the difference between <meter> and <progress> and when to use them? Meter indicates value in given range. Do not use this for progress indication. You can set min,
docker Quickie: Docker - root Have you ever gave up solving some server problem and gave temporal non-root access to anybody? Or shared your hosting with some other person, how is not supposed to run sudo? If you
javascript Quickie: round() Once again, different programming languages give different results. Now let's focus on rounding negative numbers. Python + PHP print(round(-1.5)) # -2 print(round(1.5)) # 2 echo round(-1.5) // -2 echo
2017 recap Duolingo In January I signed up to Duolingo. Since about August I started a long streak. The last day of year I reached 142 day streak! I got to learn a lot of
bash How long are you working? When you want to get notified every half hour how long you are already working, you can use this simple script, run it in terminal. Notice however, that it won't save your life
languages Ni - vi While I was learning Swedish and Esperanto courses on Duolingo, I noticed how they have opposite meanings for words ni and vi. So I had to look etymology of them on Wiktionary. Swedish
A blog was born On this blog you'll find for the most part IT stuff, some language oriented topics and who knows what more. Although English isn't my native language, most of my posts will probably be
