Introduction As a non-native English speaker, I’m always learning new words, idioms, and expressions. This post is a collection of interesting words I’ve encountered and wanted to remember. 202...

Why Install from Source? Vim/Neovim has been my code editor for about 5 years, and in all that time I haven’t needed to compile it and install it from its GitHub repository. This is because Vim co...

The Problem You’ve just opened Vim, maybe by accident or because someone told you it’s a great editor. Now you’re stuck. You’ve tried everything — clicking, pressing random keys, nothing works. Ho...

CSS of the Future I followed a tutorial on YouTube by Angela Delise to learn a bit of CSS GRID and it was very simple. The Layout CSS Grid makes it incredibly easy to create complex layouts wi...

The Bug Do you know what the PWD command does in Linux? Let’s say we’re in the Downloads folder on our computer. Downloads $ pwd /home/itox/Downloads pwd returns the current directory path — s...

The Journey Continues Remember that a few days ago I posted an article where I started contributing to the Alacritty-Themes project? Since then, several things have happened. Alacritty-Themes ...

The Change Since I’ve known Ruby on Rails, it has included the Byebug gem 😥. It was introduced in the Gemfile over 7 years ago. But things are changing. The Pull Request Depend on ruby/debug, rep...

The Discovery Thank you GitHub!!! GitHub reported a security vulnerability 🙈 in my juanvqz.github.io repository which is related to axios. Axios, Promise based HTTP client for the browser a...

The Context Last week we were solving JavaScript errors with the help of New Relic. New Relic One: A simple yet powerful observability platform. Detect, debug, and prevent. New Relic monitor...

The Core Difference The main difference between append and appendChild is simple: append accepts text strings AND nodes (DOM elements) appendChild only accepts nodes (DOM elements) Examp...

The Context Not even Microsoft wants Internet Explorer. When opening Internet Explorer, a window appears inviting me to switch to the Edge browser, which confirms that Microsoft has also left it ...

The Task It’s simpler than it seems. The task is simple if you’ve used Ruby on Rails, as the process is identical to installing gems in a Gemfile. Which Gem to Use? NOTE: There’s another g...

The Problem Time flies during the pandemic. I realized I’d been using the Alacritty terminal for over a year, and I found it very effective because of its simple YAML configuration. However, I wa...