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12 Emacs Keybindings Worth Learning

Learning a few Emacs Keybindings can make you more effective in a variety of places, even if you don't use Emacs as your editor. The most basic are shortcuts that let you move your

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Using Fuzzy-Find to Enhance Git Add

Fuzzy-find is not just for locating files in a directory. It can also be used to make git operations faster.

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Headless Chrome with Testem on VSTS-Hosted Agents

With Chrome in CI, our builds are faster and more reliable, and we’re able to raise our target language level, which had been held back for PhantomJS.

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Three Command Line Utilities to Reduce Everyday Frustrations

Cut through tangled jungles of JSON, search massive codebases faster than you can blink, and find files by name with less fuss using these three command line tools.

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Swift Tool Belt, Part 7: Extending UIBarButtonItem

Set accessibility properties from Xcode's interface builder, and gain the ability to hide a bar button item—using an extension to UIBarButtonItem.

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The First Five Things to Learn in Any IDE

If you’re overwhelmed by the sheer number of features and key commands in your IDE, try starting with these 5 things. They're some of the best bang-for-your-buck functions.

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Review: Kinesis Freestyle Edge Keyboard

The most striking experience for me actually using the Kinesis Freestyle Edge; it was when I first went back to a standard one.

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PDF Snapshot Testing with Node and GraphicsMagick

How we automated testing on a system to generate downloadable PDF files for customer and supplier orders, using NodeJS and GraphicsMagick.

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Swift Tool Belt, Part 6: Extending UIFont

This extension for UIFont in Swift will convert your font to bold or italic. It's especially useful when you use scaled fonts but need a different look.

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Centralize Your Command Line with fish shell Functions

fish shell uses functions to decrease the reliance on a monolithic config file. It's this approach to functions that makes fish unique.

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Building Your Own VS Code Extension for a Mac Touch Bar

Create your very own Mac Touch Bar extension for Visual Studio Code in just minutes following this simple tutorial.

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Easily Reloading your Clojure Project in Spacemacs

With this configuration in place, I can tear down and reload my entire Clojure-based app, while it's running in a REPL embedded in Spacemacs.

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