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by Syed Aslam in Macos · 2 min read
macOS Big Sur changed the default shell to Z shell. This broke Homebrew and zsh configuration. This post notes the fixes for some of the issues I encountered specifically the Command-Line.
by Syed Aslam in Node · 3 min read
When using open-source NPM packages in your project, odds are you will run into a dependency that is missing a feature. This dependency doesn't do quite do what you want or has a bug that needs to be worked around for your use-case. What do you do in these situations, if your team doesn't have the time to create your custom solution to the problem?
by Syed Aslam in Ruby · 1 min read
With uniq method you can remove duplicates from an array, however using the bitwise | operator we can avoid adding duplicate items in the first place.
by Syed Aslam in Rails · 2 min read
Easy way to set a background from a selected number of images in Rails. You can set a background image purely through CSS thanks to the 'background-size' property in CSS3. Using the `html` element is better than `body` as it's always at least the height of the browser window. You set a fixed and centered background on it, then adjust it's size using `background-size` set to the cover keyword.
by Syed Aslam in Data Structures · 5 min read
Linked List is a linear collection of data elements, whose order is not given by their physical placement in memory. Instead, each element points to the next. It is a data structure consisting of a collection of nodes which together represent a sequence.
by Syed Aslam in Ruby · 10 min read
The built-in class File provides the facilities for manipulating files in Ruby. Let us explore the basic file operations, including opening, reading, writing along with querying file objects to get information about the file itself.