‘Broken phone screen’ or ‘99% success = fail’

Hi folks I’d like to share my fail story I’ve got yesterday. Preamble (you may skip it) I am using Nexus 5 smartphone for 2 years already and I like it very much. I’ve already replaced its screen three times. First time, I replaced it in 1.5 years ago after my first 1.5 years old son dropped …

Best programming font – Source Code Pro

Hi folks Recently, I reinstalled my Windows and started to reconfigure my environment to use font I am using for last 5 years – Consolas I decided to search what is the most popular font nowadays and found http://www.slant.co/topics/67/~programming-fonts where Consolas is quite popular – 249 upvotes. But I found another winner Source Code Pro …

Funny ‘Lorem ipsum’ memories

Hey folks I remember the first time I found ‘Lorem ipsum’ in our codebase. I was working for the Netherlands company so I thought it is something like ‘Hello World’ in Dutch 🙂 I only realized its real meaning when I found the same words at my next job’s codebase. Funny mistake, isn’t it? Stay tuned

Funny Out-of-memory error

Hey folks I’ve just encountered a funny error I tried to run my virtual machine from VirtualBox and got I tried to reopen VirtualBox a few times but issue persisted. I didn’t run anything memory intensive. Then I open Task Manager and see Oh wow. Looking into Sublime Ah! That’s it. I accidentally pressed F4 …

‘One long debug story’ or ‘checkbox.onclick’

Hey folks I spent another working day debugging something simple I work on a legacy project which has many approaches that are discouraged nowadays. The problem I tried to solve was around checkboxes. The very simplified version of the code looks like I know it is weird… But previously it was working… Now I had …