Blue Desk

Rodrigo’s blog.

Friday, February 8, 2019

Chrome 72 annoying F6 key behavior

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On all browsers, since immemorial times, I’ve been using the F6 key to go to the URL bar and select the whole URL. My current browser is Goo...
Thursday, February 7, 2019

A very simple, raw Win32 WinLamb program

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Months ago I noticed that WinLamb was missing a simple, introductory example. I never really had time to write and publish one. Until today...
Thursday, January 24, 2019

Git commit with specific date

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Very interesting Git option I just found: --date . When making a commit, you can specify the date manually. However, if you make a new commi...
Friday, January 11, 2019

Node.js script to kill a JBoss instance

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I’ve been dealing with consecutive JBoss restarts lately at work, and I needed a quick way to kill a running JBoss server instance. First I ...
Tuesday, January 8, 2019

Reading a file line by line in JavaScript and Node.js

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While writing a small Node.js utility in JavaScript, I needed to read a text file from disk, line by line, into a string array. I wrote a sm...
Wednesday, December 26, 2018

Hot reloading in Node.js

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While experimenting with Node.js, I was writing a small webserver to see how the things assembled together. Then I noticed that, each time I...
Thursday, December 6, 2018

Wikipedia Templates, using React and TypeScript

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I’ve been testing out React recently with great joy. The ability to grow a web application with components is really good, so much I was ab...
Sunday, October 21, 2018

SRTEd 1.3.1, minor release

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This week I released a new SRTEd version 1.3.1, with has minor, but many usability improvements. Also, it’s built with latest version of Win...
Thursday, July 5, 2018

Vue.js builds for non-root web directories

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The React ’s lack of scoped CSS annoyance made me want to try Vue.js , which solves this problem right out of the box. And so far, I’m likin...
Sunday, March 11, 2018

Capitalization Rules for Song Titles

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I found this guide back in 2007, provided by Standard MIDI Files on the Net , how defunct. I kept it on a TXT file on my hard disk for 11 ye...
Friday, February 16, 2018

Alternative approach to bitflags in C++

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Just wondering about a short, expressive and alternative way to implement bitflags in C++11 . Right now I don’t plan to adopt this idiom...
Wednesday, February 14, 2018

One grid to rule them all

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I’ve just learned CSS Grid . It feels like an improvement over Flexbox , and although it’s more powerful, it’s actually a little simpler to ...
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