node Promises with loops in Node JS Running all actions asynchronously by default is one of nodes greatest strengths. Waiting for an action to finish is very easy with promises. But how do you wait for multiple promises which might
quote Quote "Most organizations unintentionally create systems that require extraordinary people to deliver ordinary results." - Dantar OosterwalSad but very true. I see this quite often. People trying to solve problems with specific new rules
mysql Convert DateTime to different timezone When starting a new project, usually you don't directly start a worldwide service. Because of this most of the time you don't directly start with DateTime conversions as it's just more effort without
mysql Search in Doctrine JSON Type I'm working on an API project at the moment. The API is build with a simple Symfony / MySQL (through Doctrine) stack. One of the requirements added was a search function. Previously this wasn't
ssh Upload file via ssh connection One common thing you have to do when doing Sysops, is uploading or downloading files. Most times you've got a SFTP connection to do so, but often times that's not possible and you
learning My Top 10 Books Books jumpstarted my career as a freelancer and an entrepreneur. They are one of the biggest contributors to my wellbeing and personal and business success. A few of them are so simple in
git Remove file from git history Switching from Bitbucket to Github had one hickup I didn't expect. On Github the maximal file size is 100MB. On Bitbucket it's higher and I had a video with over 345MB in my
php Symfony http basic auth for debugging on live server When deploying a Symfony application you usually remove the dev environment for security reasons. Which of course makes it more difficult to debug the system if there are errors occurring. An easy solution
console zsh agnoster theme without hostname I really like the agnoster theme for my terminal. But the hostname is just to long and not really useful on your local machine. That's why I searched for a way to remove
contao Contao changelanguage on root level When using multiple languages with Contao on one domain you always define one fallback language which is used when you visit the website through the root url. If you've implemented a language switch
quote Love of code Software developers need to stop loving the code they create and start loving the value that their code delivers - Jerónimo PalaciosA quote I came across that has a really good point.
video HTML Video Background Rendering There are nice tools to generate all formats you need for a background video. The best I found is ffmpeg. With the following commands you can create a webm and ogv format from
console Create folders from text file Did you ever had the case that you wanted to create a lot of folders but didn't want to do this by hand? There is a simple command to create a list of
php Create randomized token with specific length Random token generation is one of those issues which comes up way to many times while coding. There are a lot of ways to solve it but the "random" part is
npm NPM without progress bar We all know that NPM can be quite slow. The progress that is shown on installing new packages also takes a huge part of the total time. So disabling it will make the
ssh Always login to ssh with the id_rsa ssh key A neat little trick to always login with ssh via a the id_rsa ssh key on mac is to put the following line at the end of your config file: Host * UseKeychain
Symfony - Translate variable value Translating a label with variable content is trivial with twig. Translating variable values on the other hand isn't that obvious. So here area a few examples how to do so. Translate value in
Set allow origin flag for fonts When putting fonts on a server to host them and use them somewhere else (eg. a cdn subdomain) they won't be loaded without the right Access-Control-Allow-Origin header. To set that you can use
docker Useful little docker commands When working with docker I stumbled over a few useful docker commands for cleaning up. Remove all docker containers: docker stop $(docker ps -a -q) docker rm $(docker ps -a -q) Remove all
uberspace Redirect from http to https on uberspace There is a simple way to redirect all requests from http to https when using Uberspace. Just put in the following lines into your .htaccess file: RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on RewriteCond %{ENV:HTTPS} !=on
mac Disable App Nap to stop Spotify from stuttering For a while now I had an issue where the playback from Spotify was starting stuttering if it wasn't the active window. For no apparent reason. CPU and RAM where both ok and
mac Hide OSX Dock faster If the dock hides and shows to slow you can increase the speed with the following commands: To let it directly jump without any kind of delay use the following: $ defaults write com.
uberspace Install a node module kind of global on uberspace Sometimes you need node modules to be installed globally. I had this case recently with casperjs which I wanted to install on uberspace. To have it available from home you can install it
mac Clear dock icon cache When mac apps change their icons this sometimes does not trigger down to the Dock and the app switcher. This is also the case when you manually change the icon of an app.
bash Show which process is using a file Have you had the case that you could not clear your trash because one of the files was still in use? Most time it’s a .dmg file which is still mounted but