My top learnings of 2024: the best tools I discovered this year

This post continues my series, presenting the most significant technology insights I discovered in 2024. I’ve already posted about my recent learnings about the world of hardware. Here, I’ll list a few discoveries related to software tools and online services that I discovered and now find indispensable. #1: GitHub Copilot: if you don’t use it … Read more

My top learnings of 2024: PC hardware

Hey! As 2024 ends, I’ll publish a short series of blog posts about what I have learned and discovered in the technology world over the last 12 months. 2024 is a super exciting year, with the fast rise of Generative AI. GenAI applications are hitting the market almost daily, but I’ll write about it in … Read more

Converting .png to .ico – overview of tools, which is the best?

Is the .ico format still relevant today? An .ico file format can contain multiple images at different resolutions (e.g., 16×16, 32×32, 48×48, 64×64) and color depths (e.g., 8-bit, 24-bit). This allows the system or application to choose the most appropriate image based on the display context. In 2024, we have a wide choice of newer … Read more

GitHub Copilot: selecting different suggestion

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I’ll share a simple trick I was happy to learn only today (after using GitHub Copilot for over a month). Copilot is so good at guessing what I intend to write that pretty much all the time I accept the first solution it comes up with. But sometimes it can guess wrong, or it doesn’t … Read more

Karma Test Explorer in VS Code fails to load tests: “karma server quit unexpectedly”

Hey! This post is to capture the non-obvious debugging steps needed to resolve the following error: Failed to load tests – Karma server quit unexpectedly: Process exited with non-zero status code 1 At one point in our project development, team members started to notice that the Karma-based front-end tests stopped loading in the Karma Test … Read more

VS Code: settings synchronization doesn’t work

I have recently observed that my Visual Studio Code synchronization no longer seemed to work. The configuration which I carefully changed at home was still not synced on my workplace machine. If you have a similar problem and found this blogpost in Google, read on 🙂 Diagnosing it turned out to be easy once you … Read more

How to suppress issues in C# code

I like to maintain a zero-warning policy in a project. In the case of false-alarm warnings, I think it’s better to suppress them than to leave them active. When we suppress a warning, it will not draw our attention every time we look at logs. So, how can we suppress a warning like the example … Read more