Here’s one random observation - (almost) nobody comments directly on blog posts these days. It seems that all the conversations happen somewhere else - Reddit, HackerNews, Twitter, Facebook, you na...

I wonder how many people remember the 12-inch MacBook that Apple introduced to much fanfare in 2015. It was supposed to be the future of computing, a super thin and light computer for the modern pe...

Today I’ve switched the blog’s theme from Hydeout to Minimal Mistakes. I did so for several reasons: I didn’t like the color scheme that Hydeout used for syntax highlighting, and I didn’t want ...

From time to time people ask me what’s the best way to get in touch with me, as there are way too many options. Today we’re all on half a dozen social networks, plus another half a dozen of messag...

From time to time you’ll need to inspect the contents of a locally installed Ruby gem. For instance - I needed to check the contents of my Jekyll theme (minima) earlier today, so I could override s...

Just wanted to let you know that for various reasons I’ve migrated the comments of (think) from Disqus to Hyvor Talk. I’ve described the process in a dedicated article. One small difference in the...

Every time I change my computer or my operating system1, one of the first things I have to do is to configure Git. This article simply covers the basic Git settings that I always adjust. So, here’...

From time to time we need to rename a bunch of files according to some pattern. One simple example that comes to mind is that recently I noticed that some articles in my blog had a .md extension a...

That’s going to be one really short post. I just wanted to share with you that I’ve been using HEY (a new e-mail service from Basecamp) for the past few months and overall I’m quite happy with it....

PPAs (Personal Package Archives) are a popular way to install pre-built packages that for some reason are not (yet) available in Ubuntu’s standard package repositories. Some common examples that co...