For the Library of Babel, I needed to convert very big numbers — hundreds of thousands of digits — from a base to another.

Use TypeScript to ensure the validity of your i18next translations.

Three states, no flash, reactive. Test it at zwyx.github.io/proper-dark-theme

Track changes in your config files using a Git repository.

GitHub Skyline

Combine your contributions from any repository on your GitHub contribution graph.

It's quite obvious, for consistently looking code, spaces are best.

However, does one also has consistency among the people they work with?

It might not be the case: some people might have impaired vision.

On an open source project, one might not even know how "consistent" are the people working with them.

I've investigated different static site generators — SSGs — in order to set up a proper blog for this website. I've read about a lot of them, tried a few. My favourite by far is Docusaurus, the one this site is now built with.

Git hashes mined with Git Hash Miner

Following the same principle that Bitcoin uses for its proof of work, we can "mine" our Git commit hashes too!

If you use Google Authenticator and scan QR codes to create new Time-based One-Time Passwords, you might have noticed that their names are sometimes in the form Issuer (Account name). Google Authenticator allows to rename the Account name part, but not the Issuer.

The following explains how to rename the Issuer, or even get rid of it.

Reduce the amount of branches without necessarily deleting them

Password store layout example

In this post, we will use pass to set up a complete, shared and segmented, professional password store.

Ionic Capacitor and Apache Cordova are two common wrappers to create a hybrid mobile application from a web application. The main advantage over a native mobile app is the re-usability of the code — and the development languages being HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, if we like them.