The official https://sidneyliebrand.io RSS feed https://sidneyliebrand.io Wed, 23 Oct 2024 20:31:25 GMT Copyright https://sidneyliebrand.io 2024 This post describes how to deal with a bug in Firefox where it fails to properly identify the result of <code>FontFaceSet.entries()</code> as an actual iterable object. https://sidneyliebrand.io/blog/fixing-font-face-set-entries-not-iterable-in-firefox https://sidneyliebrand.io/blog/fixing-font-face-set-entries-not-iterable-in-firefox Tue, 29 Nov 2022 19:20:00 GMT I've seen a fair few tutorials on building a page load progress bar for Next.js applications but most of them use the external library NProgress. While NProgress is a very nice general purpose library we can also build our own 'cheap' progress bar without using any library! https://sidneyliebrand.io/blog/building-a-next-js-page-load-progress-bar https://sidneyliebrand.io/blog/building-a-next-js-page-load-progress-bar Sun, 18 Apr 2021 19:00:00 GMT Even though I always knew I wanted to do something with computers, I was certain I could never become a web developer. This post will be my attempt at explaining how I got there anyway :) https://sidneyliebrand.io/blog/how-i-became-a-web-developer https://sidneyliebrand.io/blog/how-i-became-a-web-developer Mon, 29 Mar 2021 14:06:00 GMT This post shows how to convert .gif images to web-safe video formats using ffmpeg cli. These formats produce smaller files which means less data to load! https://sidneyliebrand.io/blog/converting-gif-to-web-safe-video-formats-using-ffmpeg https://sidneyliebrand.io/blog/converting-gif-to-web-safe-video-formats-using-ffmpeg Sun, 14 Feb 2021 18:30:00 GMT Recently I decided to clean up my vim plugins once again, I do not think I use too many but I prefer to keep my setup simple. One of the things which bothered me was the configuration for lightline.vim in my vim config. It seemed needlessly complex and I wondered if I could recreate it without any plugins at all! https://sidneyliebrand.io/blog/creating-my-own-vim-statusline https://sidneyliebrand.io/blog/creating-my-own-vim-statusline Thu, 21 May 2020 00:12:34 GMT It is never fun when stuff breaks! This post is about me fixing some audio deficiencies after upgrading Ubuntu. https://sidneyliebrand.io/blog/fixing-audio-configuration-after-upgrading-ubuntu https://sidneyliebrand.io/blog/fixing-audio-configuration-after-upgrading-ubuntu Wed, 20 May 2020 00:13:37 GMT I've been greeted by the same "Your story isn't part of the metered paywall" message for a while now, and figured it was time to make a change in the right direction. https://sidneyliebrand.io/blog/and-your-metered-paywall-isnt-part-of-my-story-medium https://sidneyliebrand.io/blog/and-your-metered-paywall-isnt-part-of-my-story-medium Mon, 10 Jun 2019 04:36:22 GMT Any kind of cold-call from some random recruiter or sales rep is annoying enough as is. Imagine my frustration when I got a call from a recruiter who called on the <strong>company phone</strong> in the middle of a working day! https://sidneyliebrand.io/blog/recruiters-who-call-during-working-hours https://sidneyliebrand.io/blog/recruiters-who-call-during-working-hours Fri, 31 Aug 2018 22:41:19 GMT Learn how to set up Codi.vim to create a fullscreen scratch buffer that also works with Vim splits. We will take a look at wrapping the <code>Codi</code> command and improving the buffer name(s) as seen in <code>:ls</code>. https://sidneyliebrand.io/blog/codi-vim-fullscreen-buffer https://sidneyliebrand.io/blog/codi-vim-fullscreen-buffer Mon, 27 Aug 2018 07:55:24 GMT Usually, when you open a file in your editor, make some changes, save and close, you lose the ability to <kbd>ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>Z</kbd>. Vim has a built in mechanism to persist changes made to files on disk. This may not sound that exciting, but what if your editor crashes while you have a set of changes you may want to revert stored? https://sidneyliebrand.io/blog/vim-tip-persistent-undo https://sidneyliebrand.io/blog/vim-tip-persistent-undo Sat, 04 Aug 2018 20:17:52 GMT In my never ending quest for simplicity I recently discovered FZF and ripgrep. Two command-line tools that have the potential to make every dag programming tasks easier. In this post I will explain how I use these tools to do things in a matter of keystrokes rather than having to re-google that command you keep forgetting <strong>every. single. time.</strong>. https://sidneyliebrand.io/blog/how-fzf-and-ripgrep-improved-my-workflow https://sidneyliebrand.io/blog/how-fzf-and-ripgrep-improved-my-workflow Sun, 24 Jun 2018 13:33:37 GMT YAML is a great language for configuration files, it is a lot more flexible than JSON with comments and inheritance for example. While I was doing some research about YAML I found bits of information scattered all over the place so I attempted to piece the great things and the quirks together in a post! https://sidneyliebrand.io/blog/the-greatnesses-and-gotchas-of-yaml https://sidneyliebrand.io/blog/the-greatnesses-and-gotchas-of-yaml Sat, 23 Dec 2017 07:25:59 GMT In my never ending quest for an optimal Vim setup I am always looking for ways to improve. I've used Vim for about two months now and I'm still learning a lot. In this post I'm going to take you through a part of my .vimrc that describes my non-plugin key binds. https://sidneyliebrand.io/blog/a-collection-of-vim-key-binds https://sidneyliebrand.io/blog/a-collection-of-vim-key-binds Sat, 16 Sep 2017 13:11:03 GMT There is caniuse.com which you can use to search online, but what if you're a lazy dev like me that likes to keep his stuff in the terminal? Well, for this reason I wrote a small wrapper using some of my all time favorite tools: Ruby and FZF! https://sidneyliebrand.io/blog/combining-caniuse-with-fzf https://sidneyliebrand.io/blog/combining-caniuse-with-fzf Sun, 03 Sep 2017 11:47:27 GMT Depending on how many languages you program in, getting all their version managers installed, added to <code>$PATH</code>, configured etc... becomes quite a pain when setting up a new system, or even figuring out how this one works because you've used something else for a while. https://sidneyliebrand.io/blog/switching-to-asdf-version-manager https://sidneyliebrand.io/blog/switching-to-asdf-version-manager Tue, 15 Aug 2017 21:04:44 GMT