Best of Windows — 2022

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    Avatar of hashnodeHashnode·4y

    Better scrolling through modern CSS

    scrollbars are a very mundane thing that every website and every app has. They don't get much love from developers, but we should be paying a little more attention to them. Let's look at some of the things we can do in 2022 to improve the scrolling experience.

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    Docker For Frontend Developers

    Docker For Frontend Developers is a short and simple guide of docker, useful for frontend developers. It ensures that the working environment is same for all developers and all servers i.e, production, staging and testing. Anyone can setup the project in seconds, no need to mess with config, install libraries, setup dependencies and set up dependencies. The command creates a hello-world image.

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    Announcing Flutter for Windows

    Announcing Flutter for Windows Build high-quality Windows apps that also run on mobile and web. In 2021, Flutter became the most popular cross-platform UI toolkit. Nearly half a million apps use Flutter… So far, we’ve seen momentum that has exceeded our expectations.

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    Avatar of changelogChangelog·4y

    Real world application

    Electron is a framework for creating native applications with web technologies like JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. The Electron app is written in plain-old HTML and JavaScript. The Tauri app installer is around 2,5MB (!!!), while the Electron install is around ~85MB. Tauri has many security features built-in by default. You can even explicitly enable or disable certain APIs.

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    My developer workflow using WSL, tmux and Neovim

    Microsoft made Windows Subsystem for Linux also known as WSL. I use Oh My Zsh to manage my zsh configuration, which makes it trivial to install and use plugins. To install Starship, Starship is a minimal, highly customizable and super fast prompt. Neovim is the best code editor for me because of its speed and ease of customization. All the configuration is written in Lua.

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    JavaScript sending data between windows

    JavaScript sending data between windows with JavaScript can be used to open a popup window. A specific action could be done on the popup window and the original window that invoked the popup required to receive the choice. This might sound a bit crazy to build, but it's easier than you think.

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    Avatar of changelogChangelog·4y

    extrawurst/gitui: Blazing 💥 fast terminal-ui for git written in rust 🦀

    GitUI provides you with the user experience and comfort of a git GUI but right in your terminal while being portable, fast, free and opensource. The priorities for gitui are on features that are making me mad when done on the git shell, like stashing, staging lines or hunks.

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    Windows Terminal Preview 1.16 Release

    Windows Terminal team is back with another release for you! This release introduces version 1.16 to Windows Terminal Preview and updates Windows Terminal to 1.15 with these new features. Themes are only editable using the JSON file, but they will appear in the Theme dropdown on the Appearance page of the settings UI. CloseOnExit will now automatically close the Terminal when terminated.

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    Avatar of itsfossIt's Foss·4y

    Advantages and Disadvantages of Using Linux

    Linux is totally open-source, meaning anyone can inspect the source code for transparency. There are specialized lightweight Linux distributions that are tailored to run on older hardware. If you don’t need Adobe for your work, Linux is a pretty good choice.

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    mikeroyal/Self-Hosting-Guide: Self-Hosting Guide. Learn all about locally hosting(on premises & private web servers) and managing software applications by yourself or your organization.

    Most self-hosted software can be installed using Docker, a packaging system which allows software to bundle their configuration and dependencies. Shipwright is a WebUI to generate templates for Yacht, Portainer, Docker-Compose, and Unraid. Dozzle is a small lightweight application with a web based interface to monitor Docker logs. Diun is a tool that receive notifications when a Docker image is updated.

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    chubin/cheat.sh: the only cheat sheet you need

    Chubin/cheat.sh is the only cheat sheet you need Unified access to the best community driven cheat sheets repositories of the world. What should it look like? What features should it have?

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    DevToys - Swiss army knife for developers

    A collection of converters, formaters, encoders, generators and other tools for your Windows desktop. Needs no internet connection to work and currently contains more than 14 tools. Makes me want to go back to Windows. Back to Mail Online home. Back To the page you came from.

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    Avatar of do_communityDigitalOcean Community·4y

    Learning to Love Your Terminal

    This tutorial is designed for users who are new to the command line. The goal is to feel just as comfortable in a terminal environment as you are with using a computer in any other way. The first section of this tutorial will cover Windows terminal environments. If you are using macOS or Linux, you can skip to the following section.

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    Visual Studio Code July 2022

    Visual Studio Code will be released in June 2022 (version 1.70) There are many updates in this version that we hope you'll like, some of the key highlights include: Title bar customization - Hide/show menu bar, Command Center, or layout control.

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    7 Great Terminal/CLI Tools Not Everyone Knows

    Exa is a modern replacement for the venerable file-listing command-line program ls that ships with Unix and Linux operating systems. It uses colors to distinguish file types and metadata. It knows about symlinks, extended attributes, and Git. The video gives a short overview of how to use the tools mentioned above work.

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    Eugeny/tabby: A terminal for a more modern age

    Deutsch Tabby (formerly Terminus) is a highly configurable terminal emulator, SSH and serial client for Windows, macOS and Linux Integrated SSH and Telnet client and connection manager Integrated serial terminal Theming and color schemes. Fully configurable shortcuts and multi-chord shortcuts. Split panes Remembers your tabs.

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    Avatar of glcGolang News·4y

    A lightweight, Golang alternative to Electron

    Wails v2.0 is a lightweight, Go alternative to Electron Wails. It's been about 18 months since the first v2 alpha and about a year from the first beta release. The v2 release is a giant leap forward for the project, addressing many of the pain points of v1.

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    Setup Kali Linux Like A Pro

    In today's era, many folks are trying to get some basic knowledge of Hacking, and for that Kali Linux is a must OS to learn. Today, I will show you how to install and set up Kali on your machine (Windows 10 / 11) We will be using WSL2 to get it done.

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    nektos/act: Run your GitHub Actions locally 🚀

    You can use the GitHub Actions defined in your GitHub Actions to run your actions locally. The environment variables and filesystem are all configured to match what GitHub provides. If you are using Windows, please follow the steps outlined in Docker Docs for how to install Docker Desktop on Windows.

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    How To Fix Visual Studio Code IntelliSense Loading Infinitely

    How To Fix Visual Studio Code IntelliSense loading infinitely issue was gone. It turned out that sometimes your VS Code might be using a different TypeScript version than your workspace uses. In order to fix it, use TypeScript: Select TypeScript Version... command.

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    Make yourself comfortable: Keyboard shortcuts

    Set up shortcuts can greatly save time and effort and boost your productivity. To run your shortcuts at startup on Windows, create a file in your preferred location.

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    Avatar of freecodecampfreeCodeCamp·4y

    Command Line Commands – CLI Tutorial

    Windows command line is one of the most powerful utilities on a Windows PC. With it, you can interact with the OS directly and do a lot of things not available in the graphical user interface (GUI) In this article, I’ll show you 40 commands you can use on the Windows command line that can boost your confidence taskkill – Terminates a Running Task To kill a task.

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    Avatar of pointerPointer·4y

    ImHex

    ImHex is a Hex Editor, a tool to display, decode and analyze binary data to reverse engineer their format, extract informations or patch values in them. It is a completely custom binary template and pattern language to decode and highlight structures in the data.

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    Rust Easy! Modern Cross-platform Command Line Tools to Supercharge Your Terminal

    Alacritty is a cross-platform modern terminal emulator with sensible defaults. It is GPU accelerated, super fast, and highly configurable. Starship is fast, highly customizable, and has a great default theme and settings. Exa is a bit faster than LSD for tree views and can show the Git status of files and folders. I prefer exa due to the Git support and faster tree views.

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    tauri-apps/tauri: Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop applications with a web frontend.

    Tauri is a framework for building tiny, blazingly fast binaries for all major desktop platforms. Developers can integrate any front-end framework that compiles to HTML, JS and CSS for building their user interface. The backend of the application is a rust-sourced binary with an API that the front end can interact with.