What Windows shell aliases are and how to use them.
Aliases in bash
How to set and unset an alias in bash
Regex matches in PowerShell
How to find regex matches using PowerShell
Hidden color picker in Chrome dev tools
A hidden gem in the Chrome dev tools is the color picker.
How to set up signing commits and tags with git on Windows
How to create a GPG key, configure git to use it, and how to set up GitHub and GitLab so your commits appear as verified.
How to copy a website to read offline
How to mirror a website using wget and an open source GUI to achieve the same thing.
Two tricks with the Chrome developer console
How to easily copy values to the clipboard, and how to pretty print objects and collections.
Making WSL colors readable
The default color scheme for the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is not the most readable. Thankfully a tool exists that can change the default color scheme to something more legible.
Bookmarks - April 2018
Public DNS resolvers, WSL, and how to make colors more legible in the Windows CMD.
Striping a HTML table with merged cells
A common style applied to HTML tables with lots of data is to make them striped, i.e. set the background color of alternate rows. This is easy to do when each tr represents an individual row to be striped, but if you have cells merged across multiple rows then this doesn’t work.