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quick note how to find configured rsync modules

Sometimes it is hard to determine which element to focus. This post provides you with a specific tool to make your choice of candidates wider than just the body or “whatever the browser does”.

There is a new kid on the block with CSS colors. OKLCH is all the rave. We can use it together with CSS custom properties to add easy color themes to our CSS styles.

I worked at importing Unicode data into Codepoints.net’s database, when I encountered a peculiar MySQL error that I haven’t seen before yet: ERROR 1153 (08S01): Got a packet bigger than 'max_allowed_packet' bytes

A little helper script allows for more comfort when working with make in projects with sub-folders.

A wonderfully elegant way to use Makefiles together with bundlers, that emit several files, are intermediate files. This post explains, how you can use them for easy cross-platform little-setup builds.

In this post we take an arc from ancient Greek philosophy over strange punctuation marks to Unicode and strive to answer the question, whether all Cretans are liars.

The Mozilla Developer Network recently switched its infrastructure. Now, the MDN content is stored in a Github repository in the form of HTML files with YAML front matter. You can think of it, what you want, given their …

Docker as a tool to spin up complex setups quickly also allows for phenomenally fast deployment of packaged applications, that would otherwise be daunting to install. Here are some very useful commands, that make heavy use of this feature for a plethora of different problems.

In this post we will open doors solely with the magic of modern CSS. Using the well-supported 3D transforming properties, we achieve this without a single line of Javascript.