Productivity Blog Posts
I currently have 143 different ideas in a backlog waiting to see the light of day, and it is a constant source of anxiety. Maybe you have a similar list of your own, and like me, tell yourself "if only I had the time to work on them".
A few weeks ago I had an itch to scratch, I was working with a legacy application that was sending out a ton of curl requests to a production service. The problem was, I had no idea what was in them. I could have dug through the spaghetti and documented each one, but I needed an answer pretty quickly.
Over the last three years, I've been adding to and maintaining a keyboard shortcuts website called Use The Keyboard. Over that time I've amassed some 5100 individual shortcuts spread out across 85 apps, programs, and websites. In this article, I'm going to break down a select few from a variety of programs and sites that I use on a regular basis as a web developer (and occasional designer).
If you're a web developer, it's very likely you've used local dev sites to build your applications on. Something like example.test or mycoolsite.devlocal, right? When I'm spinning up a basic content site, I really don't pay attention to wrapping it up in https. However, when you start digging into more complex applications, especially those requiring registration and logins, https is useful and sometimes downright required depending on your frontend.
A few months ago I put together a pretty decent Windows PC, mostly for gaming. Although of course I started tinkering here and there with programming on it, and eventually decided to go full in on making it a web dev machine. The timing couldn't be perfect either, as Windows released WSL 2 recently and its performance with Docker Desktop has been incredible.
I’m a serial starter. If half-finished projects were dollars, I’d be a millionaire. A little over a year ago I wrote an article about overcoming my issues finishing things that I started, but in the end that lead to a new, unforeseen problem, maintaining what I launch.