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So, I was travelling during the weekend and couldn’t touch my laptop. Today most of my time went into setting up Arch Linux! 😎 I seem to do some distro hopping, then always return back to Arch. Since now I keep most of my personal projects as well as configuration on GitHub, it was much quicker getting back to work. One more thing that helped is docker. Since I don’t have to worry about missing or conflicting dependencies, I just installed a lot of tools via Docker and it just works!...

Articles read today Don’t ask how I got to these links 😅 Want to be more productive? Don’t go paperless. A Story of Caching Converting GitHub Actions from Docker to JavaScript To Do today Few coding exercises CSS layout GitHub Action Continue reading on Eloquent JS Hoping to be on schedule 🤞 Coding exercises So I finished only one of the problems. Then I started the next problem and unabashedly spent the remaining scheduled time on it!...

100DaysOfCode As part of my recently started #100DaysOfCode challenge, today I worked on few coding exercises(codechef/topcoder style) tried making a two column layout website from scratch Even a basic two column layout was an eye opener behind th planning required to create the CSS. Reading the chapter on Page Layout from the book CSS Mastery gave a lot of information on how to keep the binding between presentation and markup to a minimum using helper classes so the maintainability remains....

Automation FTW again! 🚀 I came across this blog post by the current maintainer of Jekyll. I’m a big proponent of Infrastracture as Code and when I saw this easy to use tool, Octodns, I got hooked. I saw that even the DNS for the Jekyll website is being maintained using octodns! I just modified the config a little to make use of the latest YAML syntax, because the older syntax is being deprecated....

Running node completely in Docker 🐳 I’m currently learning a few things about web development and although I am not learning NodeJS right now, I am using NodeJS to run and install stuff. First of all, JavaScript. I’m focusing on vanilla JavaScript for now, but I am using the delightful JavaScript Testing Framework Jest. Then while working on HTML and CSS, I like to use the package http-server, to disable cache so I don’t have to keep the Dev Tools open always to be able to see the latest uncached content....