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Published in Better Programming

·Feb 5, 2021

How To Add Webviews to a Visual Studio Code Extension

Display custom HTML, CSS, and JS inside VS Code — It’s weird how there aren’t enough tutorials online about building a VS Code extension. I’m someone who always relies on a mix of Stack Overflow and YouTube tutorials, so it took me quite some time to figure out how to build a VS Code extension in order to save snippets. …

Programming

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How To Add Webviews to a Visual Studio Code Extension

Jan 7, 2021

3 Things before you learn to code

For anybody whose new year’s resolution is to learn coding, here’s what you should decide before you start! — “I’m going to learn to code.” If you’re like me and love to make everybody sweat about their new year’s goals, this is something you hear a lot. And just like any other resolution, not many people give it another thought by the end of January. It could be one…

Programming

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Published in Better Programming

·Oct 16, 2020

Save Better Code Snippets With thiscodeWorks

The code snippet manager you’ve been waiting for — If you want to get straight to it, the best tool to save code snippets is thiscodeWorks.com. About two years ago when I was learning to code, I was spending way too much time searching for snippets on Google and a little too much time writing down those snippets that…

Programming

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Save Better Code Snippets With thiscodeWorks

Sep 26, 2020

How to detect HTTP & HTTPS requests in a Heroku Node.js app

And block http requests if you don’t want to redirect them — I had figured out automatic SSL Redirects from HTTP to HTTPS for Heroku before. That was where all HTTP requests in the browser would redirect to HTTPS. But when I started experimenting with API’s, I found out that didn’t work. And I didn’t even want all the HTTP requests to…

Heroku

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Jul 18, 2020

How to Embed Code Snippets on Medium, Wordpress & more.

For snippets saved on thiscodeworks — This is what an embedded snippet will look like: Step 1: Save the code snippet On thiscodeworks.com or with the Save Code extension. Step 2: Copy the URL of the snippet you want to embed. You can get it from the address bar at the top of your browser. Step 3: Paste the URL in your blog & press enter After a few seconds, your snippet should auto-embed in the blog!

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Published in The Startup

·May 8, 2020

How to Keep Users Logged in When you Deploy Updates to your Node.js Site on Heroku

A tutorial on how to keep user sessions saved when Heroku restarts the server so they don’t log out. — A tutorial on how to keep user sessions saved when Heroku restarts the server so they don’t log out. This is for Node.js, Express and express-session on Heroku. I’m embarrassed to admit it took me over a year to realize that users were getting logged out daily. Nobody complained and I’m used to testing from different accounts so I never noticed.

Heroku

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May 2, 2020

How to Add and Compile SCSS to Run Automatically in the Background on an existing Node.js project

It just takes 3 steps to get your css files tranferred to scss and automatically compiled as you code. — When I first started to learn web development, I learnt the good old HTML, CSS and Javascript. And they were adequate. Good enough to help me build and launch some projects online. But after a year of coding, I came across SASS and fell in love with it. It just…

CSS

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How to Add and Compile SCSS to Run Automatically in the Background on an existing Node.js project

Mar 23, 2020

I’ve been working remotely for 5 years — Here’s how I’ve mastered WFH

As somebody who loves meeting people, going out and dressing up, I would never have chosen to work from home. Yet I couldn’t been happier. — It all started when I was a bored student at university. My degree was super easy and I had a lot of free time. I did a bunch of stuff on the side to stay busy, and one of those was earning some money from freelance writing. When the time…

WFH

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I’ve been working remotely for 5 years — Here’s how I’ve mastered WFH

Mar 8, 2020

3 Code Snippets that Changed History

Three code snippets which I think are truly fascinating and have changed the world in recent history. — Three code snippets which I think are truly fascinating and have changed the world in recent history. I don’t know about you, but back in school when we would study History it was the history of civilizations. From Alexander the Great to the rise and fall of the British Empire, I learned all there was about great leaders of the past and how each era impacted history.

Code

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Dec 12, 2019

How to Migrate Databases from mLab to MongoDB Atlas

I was one of mLab’s happy customers until one fine day I got an email announcing that they’d been acquired by the more established mongoDB… — I was one of mLab’s happy customers until one fine day I got an email announcing that they’d been acquired by the more established mongoDB. Good for them (and us) I thought, until I read further down that all customers would have to migrate within the next year.

Mongodb

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