Snippets
Quick notes that I write and post immediately. Capturing ideas, thoughts, questions, solutions, learning, quick recaps and and everything else I might consider sharing with the world.
2025
- Watch AI fail at creating a CSS art animated bicycleExploring the limitations of AI in generating CSS art animations through various prompts which are also AI generated because I'm lazy and just wanted to see the results.
- My Smart Home Automations for Smart Heating Control with Window SensorsBreaking down the Home Assistant automation YAML of my window sensor-based heating control.
- Smart Home Makes Me... AngryShort rant about the frustrations of dealing with Smart Home technology.
2024
- The Software Sidequest #2 - Investing time in a major redesign of my darts tracking applicationTalking about the the major redesign for my darts tracking application. I lost a bit of my good rythm of the development because of the little cats and it took approximately two and a half weeks to get away from a standard material design and incorporate my own touch into the design.
- The Software Sidequest #1 - Getting serious and carving out timeFirst Part of my Software Sidequest, start talking about my own projects and taking the entire topic of building my own projects as a “Software Solopreneur” more seriously
2023
- Rico's Roundup #2 - April to June 2023Flashback of my Work, private and whatever else worth mentioned life stuff from April to June 2023.
- Rico's Roundup #1 - March 2023Flashback of my Work, private and whatever else worth mentioned life stuff in March 2023.
- Use npm audit to detect vulnerabilities in a npm projectUse npm's default tool to quick check for vulnerabilities in your projects.
2022
- How to change the last commit message after pushed?When you need to correct something in you commit message, after you already sent it to the remote repository.
- Why can’t I execute functions on my javascript / typescript object?In Javascript, you can do more with the programming language than is usually good for you. And even using Typescript does not protect you from every error.
- What's the !important Property in CSS?I researched !important flag after seeing way to much of it in one of my projects.
- How to convert a VSS project to git?How I migrated a bunch of projects to another version control system - from VSS to git.
- February 2022 FlashbackFlashback of my Work, private and whatever else worth mentioned life stuff in February 2022.
- How to remove a file from git repo but keep it in the local filesystem?Check-in a file into the repository that should'nt be there and adjust the gitignore afterwards? This is how to get rid of it.
- January 2022 FlashbackFlashback of my Work, private and whatever else worth mentioned life stuff in January 2022.
- How to execute commands inside a docker container?Short Note on how to get into a running Container.
- What does the linux command chmod go+r do?A few notes for myself to better understand the chmod command under Linux.
- What is a dockerignore file?Keep unnecessary files out of the containers you build.
2021