Grep and find aliases

Two quick bash functions to speed up name and content search on files. These are to be appended at ~/.bashrc file:

function gr { clear ; grep -rn $1 . ; }
function ff { clear ; find . -name "$1" ; }

Holy Grail CSS layout with overflow

This morning – yep, a Sunday morning – I needed to implement an HTML page with the Holy Grail layout. A quick search gave me dozens of implementations, but all of them broke apart when you trew a lot of content into the sections. Being fond of the Flexbox model, I quickly came with an implementation that had all the needed overflow control:

This implementation is also modular: if you don’t need any of the panels, just remove them – the layout will stay working. Also, the satellite panels can have fixed dimensions, see the commented values for width and height.

The funny part is that min-height: 0. It’s there for Firefox; without it, the overflow goes wild. Other interesting thing is the absence of the height: 100% to html and body elements, it’s not needed.

Disabling the useless npm package-lock.json

Recently I’ve updated npm to version 5 while working in one of my projects. Much to my dismay, a “package-lock.json” file started to appear, and I finally understood why I’ve seen this file commited in some projects lately.

But since this feature is basically a horrible idea, I started searching a way to permanently disable it. It looks like I’m not the only one who dislikes this, because I found this excellent post, which points to the solution:

npm set package-lock false

And any more “package-lock.json” files that appear in front of me will be summarily deleted.

Visual Studio Code settings

This morning I was setting up Visual Studio Code at a Lubuntu virtual machine, and after saving the keyboard shortcuts, I opened my current editor to get the settings. Since some of them I consider essential, I decided to publish them here, for further reference.