When I search for an audiobook, my usual choice is Amazon’s Audible (or our Polish Audioteka). This usually ensures good recording quality, and I have no concerns about copyright issues. However, occasionally, I discover that the best available recording is found on LibriVox, YouTube, or a similar service with a mix of amateur and professional … Read more
Here’s a short recipe for removing padding added around elements in Storybook iframes. The problem Storybook adds the .sb-main-padded class to the previews. In my opinion, this padding is unnecessary because it is not part of the designed component but a part of the Storybook viewport. It might wrongly suggest that we must deal with … Read more
A golden standard: launching a project with a single action When we set up a project, I think it’s of great value to allow to build and launch the project with a single action. Developers launch their code dozens of times a day, so it’s a worthwhile optimization. The action to launch a project would … Read more
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
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
Grammarly: great support in browsers, but doesn’t work in IDEs I have an active Grammarly subscription, and I enjoy how it helps refine my writing. It works well in browsers and notably has plugins for Microsoft Office. Also, if you write in another application and want to use its grammar check, you can always copy … Read more
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
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
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
I see many developers use Visual Studio Code as a tool helping them perform a quick full-text search in their code. And for a good reason. You can open a folder in VS Code and find fragments of text in just seconds! However, sometimes we might want to ignore (hide) some files from search results. … Read more