Another small post, but a solution to a problem which has annoyed me a lot.
Changing the power profile or power scheme in Windows is quite a hassle if you ask me. I have created a ‘High Performance’ profile on my laptop for when I’m doing development work on the machine and also have the ‘Balanced’ profile, which is the default in Windows. However, switching between these profiles is a lot of work (in my opinion).
Read more →With the new Windows Terminal available I’ve been searching on how to upgrade my console experience. I see a lot of people improving their terminal to show important information, like which Git branch you are working on, which Azure subscription, the actual location on disk, etc.
A couple of months ago I came across Brad Wilson his post on the matter and I like the way his terminal looks. His post, is rather straightforward, but there was some information missing.
Read more →When doing modern web development you will probably have to start using NPM sooner, rather than later. Not a big deal of course, since it’s a great addition to the frontend development environment.
However, most NPM packages have quite a bit of dependencies to other packages. All of these dependencies get pulled towards your system also. Still not a big problem as you want a working solution.
The problem arises when you are on a Windows environment, there are a lot of dependencies and you want to delete a project folder on your system.
Read more →As of late I’ve started using the VMWare products for virtualizing my development environments again as a replacement for Hyper-V.
Today I wanted to access some files of my virtual machine on the host in order to write a blog post on some code I had saved in there. The VMWare disk files are stored as a VMDK file and it’s not possible to mount these type of files in Windows like a VHD file.
Read more →With Windows 10 we’ve gotten a lot of nice little features which help us modifying the theme. There is however 1 option which the team hasn’t implemented (yet). The option to select different wallpapers for all of your connected displays.
I’m working with a triple monitor setup at home and at work most of the time with a dual or also a triple setup. Of course I don’t really need different wallpapers on all of my monitors, but it’s a nice feature.
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