Category: Random

On February 24th 2022 Russians attacked the beautiful, free and democratic Ukraine. Without any reason. And started killing them.

Russians are killing everybody, without selection of their targets – civilians from infants to elderly people. Schools, hospitals, kindergardens, residential areas, nuclear power stations, everything. Russians are carpet bombing cities, also using banned artillery such as cluster bombs.

Please see how you can help Ukraine – supportukrainenow.org

To all the Russians, Belarussians, Armenians: You probably don’t have access to Twitter, Facebook, Reuters, BBC,  Meduza, Bellingcat, Washington Post etc. to get all the reliable information of what is going on in Ukraine and what your guys are up to there. Because it is all censored in your country. And this is can be the only explanation why you are so quiet and ignorant (to say the least).

Luckily, somehow you manage to get on my website. Therefore, I inform you that what you are currently doing in Ukraine is not good. Leave this country alone.  According to social surveys, you seem to support (and support) Putin and this war. Please, stop supporting this war (and Putin)! You have already lost around 50 000 men in this war (in just two weeks) and nobody likes you anyway.

Väga huvitav artikkel ja saade buy now, pay later teenustest.

Lately I have found my self thinking how could a customer – when buying software development services – determine in “requirements” part that the end result should not be ugly. I belive there is no standard for describing this.

For me it has been common sense that I simply do not deliver (preferrably don’t even build in the first pace) ugly things. And there is no need to specify it in the requirements that “users should not get lost” or “users should not hurt themselves”.

From my experience I see it does not seem to be very common in the industry.

Extreme programming believes in
‘it is better to do a simple thing today and pay a little more tomorrow to change it’ than ‘to do a more complicated thing today that may never be used anyway’. But simple here by in no way means mean broken, malfunctioning or ugly.

TBC

Cool news that Google is saving $1 billion per year as a result of employees working from home.

I will update this post in the future but need to support local guys. Found it on Hacker News and just recently discovered that one of two guys  behing it (the developer) is from my hometown.

Give Plausible a try.

Atom ftp-remote-edit started to break my files occasionally due to the issue that this Atom package uses ftp in passive mode by default which tries to open too many ports at once. For example if I had large css file then it uploaded only half of it and gave me following 451 and timeout errors:

• 451-Error during read from data connection 451 Transfer aborted
• Timeout (control socket)

Suggestion from my webhosting provider was to use SSH instead of FTP but configuring it is kind of difficult for the first time. So here it is:

• Hostname is your hostname
• username is your username (username@hostname.ee)
• If you have not configured password then you can just leave it empty.
• key is private key (not *.pub (public) but the other file) – I wasted some time here.
• Initial directory path I got from my webhosting service provider. Without the path to initial directory you will probably get to the root from where it is not possible to navigate anywhere.

I think most difficult in Windows was to find the private key file (and initially to create one). But there are enough tutorials available on how to generate SSH keys. My own notes (which I use quite often) are here.

In Ubuntu the key file is located in …

What I use it for

I have gotten used to using Atom for small edits that need to be done here and there. For example my school dashboard – if I need to add something there then I open the folder in Atom ftp-remote-edit, do the edits, ctrl+s and it is live without having any files in my computer.

Also, when I need to work with data in Excel and need to upload it as csv file to the server then instead of saving csv on my computer I do textjoin in excel and copy-paste the content to csv file on server through ftp-remote-edit.