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Material UI custom theme and TypeScript

If you’re creating a custom theme object and provide it to the ThemeProvider, you’ll notice that TypeScript complains when you’re reading a value from a custom property on the type Theme (ie in a makeStyles function). For example, if your […]

Install or update a Gnome extension without restarting Ubuntu

If you don’t want to restart Ubuntu after installing or updating an extension that requires Gnome to restart, simply hit Alt + F2, type ‘r’ without the quotes in the new pop-up window, and hit enter to run the command. […]

How to disable taxonomy feed links in WordPress

If you’d like to disable feed links for a custom taxonomy in WordPress, you need to remove the action hook that adds it, like this: add_action( ‘wp_head’, function() { if(is_tax(‘my_taxonomy_slug’)) { remove_action( ‘wp_head’, ‘feed_links_extra’, 3 ); } }, 2 ); […]

Identification, Authentication, Authorization

These three terms are related, but mean different things. Here’s my shortest explanation ever: Identification: who wants to act on the system? User John, with ID johndoe? Ok! Authentication: is it really John though? Let’s check if his username & […]

My personal experience with Fizz Mobile

Very good! Honestly, I am very pleased with Fizz. As a tech-savvy person, I like to be able to manage my account myself, and Fizz has a great web application to do that. I’ve only had to contact support two […]

Fix: VSCode + ElixirLS Intellisense for code imported with `use`

I am using VSCode with the ElixirLS extension for Elixir development. My operating system is Ubuntu, but I think this guide should work for other systems if you know where to find your VSCode extensions folder. The problem: IntelliSense, aka […]

Fillichor: the smell of fall

It’s fall season – my favorite time of the year! And with that, comes something that most associate with this season: the smell of leaves. So I was thinking one day, there is a word to describe the smell of […]

Prevent CSS Transform From Making Element Blurry

Here’s the issue I was facing: I was trying to position a sticky header based on the Window scrollY value divided by 2, using the transform: translateY(value)CSS property. As a result, the element would sometimes become blurry. I remembered some […]

My Favorite Tools & Resources for Day to Day Software Development

I bet we all have a bunch of tools we use to make our lives easier, and resources we use regularly to stay up to date with the world. I figured, I could share mine so that others could go […]

Fix: Mouse pointer shakes while mouse standing still in Ubuntu 20.04

Here’s a peculiar issues I’ve encountered the second time this week. Out of the blue, the mouse pointer will start shaking/wiggling/moving up and down heretically, while the mouse itself is standing still. Turning the mouse off, disconnecting the receiver dongle […]