Blog - page 17

2017-08-15T00:00:00.000Z 15th August 2017

Navigation drop-downs. Should they be hover or click?

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Navigation drop-downs, or mega menus as they are sometimes dubbed, are becoming more and more common on the web. A drop-down menu is a navigation block which appears when a ...

2017-08-10T00:00:00.000Z 10th August 2017

Damaged version of macOS

I was recently trying to install a copy of macOS from a USB stick I'd made and kept getting an error saying the OS was damaged. I created the stick using both the command line and the OSX Install Disk Creator and whatever I did I got the error.

2017-07-26T00:00:00.000Z 26th July 2017

People are cyclists - a community hub

I’m not sure if this is a thing or just a pipe-dream but bear with me.

2017-07-23T00:00:00.000Z 23rd July 2017

Don't require password for sudo commands as non-root user

Sometimes you don't want to have to enter your password every time you run a sudo command - this blog post walks you through disabling that.

2017-07-03T00:00:00.000Z 3rd July 2017

SCSS Reverse direction

There may be a point in your CSS coding that you want to know the opposite of a direction (e.g. up, down). This function allows you to pass it a direction and get the opposite back!

2017-06-22T00:00:00.000Z 22nd June 2017

How I kicked a millennial habit

Changing habits is hard - especially when it's being part of your lifestyle for so long. After watching a video, I decided to address my reliance on social media and mobile phones.

2017-05-19T00:00:00.000Z 19th May 2017

Find folders on a linux server that do not have a file

I needed to locate any folder following a particular pattern that did not have a particular file. The command allows you to locate the folders and perform actions on them.

2017-05-18T00:00:00.000Z 18th May 2017

Render Conf 30th March 2017 - A review

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On 30th March, I took the many trains over the many hours required to get to Oxford from Brighton and attended Render Conf. In it’s second year, this conference ...

2017-05-15T00:00:00.000Z 15th May 2017

Rarely handy Git commands

There are rare times when you need a slightly obscure git command. You spent several minutes googling, crafting and constructing your command only to run it once and not need it again for a while. This blog post will serve as my dumping ground for those odd commands I seldom need, but when I do I can then copy and paste. Feel free to get in touch with your favourite curve-ball command and I'll do my best to add it to the list!

2017-05-10T00:00:00.000Z 10th May 2017

HTML 5 collapsable information - works in a Github/Gitlab issue

It may be that you wish to include a lot of information in a Github issue (or anywhere else on the web that allows HTML) but don't want the code/error to fill out the page. Luckily, there is a way to collapse it using latest HTML tags.