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I couldn’t find a simple free font manager for managing all my fonts, so I decided to create one using Node.js.
It takes in a fonts-folder of your choosing (and it can also read all the nested sub folders) and lets you easily preview and categorize your fonts. It works on Windows, Mac and Linux. I’m giving it away for free here:
Let’s break down a simple trick that can help you manipulate and understand your code better.
To begin with, access your developer console. This can usually be found in your browser’s Developer Tools under the ‘Console’ tab. Depending on the browser you’re using, you might need to use different shortcuts (like F12) or methods to open it. But don’t worry, a quick search on how to open the developer console in your specific browser should get you on the right track.
Once you’ve opened the console, the next step involves entering a particular command. All you need to do is simply paste the provided command line in the console. This is what we’re going to use to manipulate our code. After pasting the command, hit the ‘Enter’ key to execute it.
document.addEventListener('keydown', function (e) {
if (e.keyCode == 119) { // F8
debugger;
}
}, {
capture: true
});Now, your code should still be in an ‘unpaused’ state. But when you press F8 on the keyboard, it should pause. It’s like freezing a moment in time, letting you thoroughly inspect and understand how your code behaves for specific elements. This can be especially useful when debugging hover-effects and mouseovers.
With this simple trick, your web development toolkit has a new superpower! Experiment, explore, and let your code reveal its secrets to you. Happy coding!”
Today, we’ll be discussing a common issue you might encounter when copying and pasting text from other programs into Visual Studio Code.
At times, you may notice strange boxes appearing in your pasted text. These boxes represent unrecognized characters in VS Code. They usually occur due to discrepancies between character encoding standards across different programs.
If you’re looking for a quick fix to eliminate these, here’s a simple process you can follow:
First, select and copy one of these unknown box characters. Next, open up the ‘Replace’ dialog box. Paste the copied box character into the ‘Find’ field of the dialog box. Then, leave the ‘Replace’ field blank. Upon clicking ‘Replace All’, VS Code will replace all instances of this unrecognized character with nothing, essentially removing them from your text.
And there you have it! Your pasted text is now free of any unknown characters.
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In this video we are loading an older version of a Github repository in order to inspect the code at an earlier point.
If you want to pause your code execution in Chrome developer tools only after a certain iteration number of a loop has been reached, simply right click on the line number and choose “add conditional breakpoint”. Then just type in your condition and your done. Now the execution will only pause if the variable value is what you defined!
If you are getting a “Could not read source map for file” error in the console when trying to link to a JavaScript library like Tensorflow, the solution is simple. You propably don’t need the source map anyways unless you are planning to really digging into the code base of the library. So simply:
Here is an open source web tool for making branching dialogue trees for games. The alpha version is aimed specifically at Construct 3 but there are also plans for more generic JSON exporters.
Check out Game Dialogue Maker here:
Sometimes you have a file with tens or hundreds of lines of text and you need to wrap each line with double quotes and a comma so that it can be easily put inside a javascript array. This can happen for example if your data is rows in a spreadsheet. Here’s how you can go from a list of lines to a quoted, comma separated list:
Continue reading “Convert lines of text to an array format”If you have been doing web development using port 10080 you might have run into some issues recently since many browsers including Chrome and Firefox have decided to add that port to their blocked ports list.
I use a tool called InstantWP for WordPress development and it’s using port 10080 for http by default.
I first researched the option to change the ports IWP is using. It seems like it could be done from the config file which you can open from the “Advanced” tab by clicking “Edit Config File”. In the file that opens you should see a setting called PortOffset. I tried to change that but couldn’t get it to work even after trying many different numbers for the port offset.
I also tried to add a flag into Chrome’s startup parameters by right-clicking the Chrome icon and choosing properties. Then I replaced the value under “target” with the following string:
“C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe” –explicitly-allowed-ports=10080
However that didn’t seem to fix the situation in my case. I still got the same “unsafe port” error from Chrome.
What finally helped was switching to Firefox and performing these steps:
Then paste in this string to the search bar:
network.security.ports.banned.override
Choose “string” as the type (I know, number would seem more logical), click on the + button and enter the port number you want to allow (in my case 10080).
Now you should be able to access applications via that port!
If you are using the amazing free InstantWP WordPress development package often, then you might start wondering how to properly use it with Git version control. The difficulty is that trying to add the entire Linux Alpine virtual operating system to Git is too heavy, but adding only the contents of the Theme folder will not keep track of your posts and other database related content. I will outline the steps I used to get Git working with IWP below:
Continue reading “How to use Git with InstantWP”