Development tools and plugins to help speed up your work flow. About how to make the best use of your text editor, apps, and programming libraries / extensions / etc.
After recently unzipping a folder filled with dozens of SVGs, I noticed that the current version of Windows 10 (as of January 2021) does not let you preview SVG files in File Explorer. This was disappointing. Opening them one by one was going to be tedious. So naturally I looked around to see if there […]
Sublime Text has become my primary web coding tool. It’s built with efficiency in mind, giving you keyboard shortcuts to avoid slowdowns with the mouse, and the ability to have multiple cursors. There are many extensions available that can be instantly found and installed via the Package Manager. Plus, it’s visually pleasing. And fast. The overall […]
Follow these installation instructions to start using SASS with Sublime Text. You'll be able to save your SASS (.scss) file, and it will compile to a CSS file automatically. There are a few more extensive guides out there on this, but they skipped over a few minor things that you may miss. This boils it down to the essentials that you need to get up and running.
I’ve recently started using SASS and LESS with Sublime Text. The most popular recommended extensions for SASS were “SASS” for highlighting, “SASS Build” for compiling, and “SublimeOnSaveBuild” to auto build whenever you save. The problem with the build on save is that it currently does not ignore partials. Partials are additional files starting with an […]
When you first start using Sublime Text, the way in which projects work may not immediately make sense. What is a project? Wait, I have to save a file? Where do I save the file? I’ll cover the basics below, to get to you started. So what do I need to know? 1. You Are Always in a Project...
Recently I had to transfer all the blog posts from an old 2.4 version of WordPress, to a new 3.0 install. After I exported the content (via Tools > Export), and tried to import it into the new blog, the importer froze up and never completed. I was surprised to notice that the XML file was 50MB. Opening up the file in Notepad++ revealed that this was all spam. Apparently the blogs spam comments had never been deleted and there were over 10,000 spam comments!