Alex Table of Contents: Parameters for better logginggit log –oneline –graph Log actual changes in a filegit log -p filename Only Log changes for some specific lines in filegit log -L 1,1:some-file.txt Log changes not yet merged to the parent branchgit log –no-merges master.. Extract a file from another branchgit show some-branch:some-file.js Some notes on rebasinggit … Read more
I am new to Angular (even though I am not new to the web development), so please take everything that I am about to say with a grain of salt. That being said, I watched a lot of talks and read a lot of articles relevant to Angular performance, and this post is the summary … Read more
I needed a simple server to test my HTTPS POST requests. Just like a regular HTTP server, it is super easy to do in Node. Except I needed to add private key and a cert, which is an extra step and was not immediately obvious to me, so I figure I’d share my findings. Step … Read more
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Update 2026-08-26 Best way now seems to be just: Original Post Below I love Meld. It’s is my favorite diff tool, and one of the tools I missed the most when I switched over to Mac from Linux. Except, you can run Meld on Mac too. The easiest way is using Homebrew, via brew install … Read more
Why do we care? Most of out time is spent maintaining code. If you open an editor and: It’s blank – you are writing new code. Something already there – you are maintaining code. Most of us learned JavaScript on our own and developed our own “best” practices Maintainability = Developing as a Team What … Read more
Sometimes the unix shell script is still the best tool for the job. Today I needed to rename a bunch of java properties files from *.property to *.json. Ok, I needed to do more then just rename them, but it makes the example easier to assume that is all that I needed done 🙂 I … Read more
tl;dr I though of an interesting idea that helps me test my JavaScript code simultaneously on multiple browsers using two free tools ngrok and screenshots from BrowserStack. Simply pipe your JavaScript tests running on localhost through ngrok to make them accessible to the real world. Then use that link on BrowserStack to generate screenshots on … Read more
A colleague of mine forked a repo on Stash, just to re-use configuration. A better way of doing things would be to clone the original repo, keep the necessary config/setup files, delete .git folder, and re-initialize the new repo from scratch. In our case, we only noticed the fork about a week into the project, … Read more
Run it as sudo i.e. I just spent over 10 minutes looking around the internet for this simple solution. Hopefully, this post will save somebody some time 🙂