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How to block Google Hangouts animations when someone laughs
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How to set up a RAM drive
Once you try a solid state drive you never go back. It’s blazingly fast. I complement that experience with a RAM drive to store temporal files, cache and disposable files (screenshots, unzipped files, downloaded attachments).
I’ll explain you how to set up a RAM disk. Spoiler: the hardest part of installing it is downloading the program you’ll need to create it.
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Dropdown cygwin terminal in Windows 7
The Linux commmand line is powerful, and if you try it for five minutes you’ll see that Windows’ cmd (a reminiscence of DOS) is depressingly limiting. Cygwin comes to fix that.
In this post you’ll learn how to make your console looks like this:
Automatically minify CSS and JavaScript files using Git hooks
Motivation
When I write my CSS code, it usually looks like the screenshot on the right: I use big text made with FIGlet (using this tool) so I can find a section of code fast just by looking at SublimeText‘s minimap. There are also useful comments along the code. Those comments are great while we are working, but if they were left on production they would yield several bytes of overhead.
The JavaScript code is commented too (without big text, in this case) and it also has many spaces for identation.
Solution
There are many tools to reduce the size of both CSS and JavaScript files. In this case I chose YUI Compressor for CSS and Closure compiler for JavaScript. I decided to apply them automatically just before making a commit, using a pre-commit hook.
Keep reading to see how to implement this!
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Convert Caps Lock into something useful
You probably don’t use the Caps Lock key and, as you can see, that key is wasting a precious spot on the keyboard. So why don’t we map it to something useful?