FeathersJS Sequelize Soft Delete
It might have been the late hour but spent over 1.5h chasing this the other day... and getting tangled up in config and softdelete2 feathers-plus hooks. Turns out to setup soft deletes in…
SSH Broken Pipe When Running in VMWare Workstation
Another note to self post... since this bit me more than once. Most of the answers point to the ServerAliveInterval or ClientAliveInterval but if you are running the command from inside VMWare Workstation…
Git Gui Startup Error on Fedora
Recently started getting the following error when trying to run git gui . Googling the issue didn't seem to help much. At first I thought it's a tcl/tk issue, as related things kept…
Example of Sequelize Associations in FeathersJS
I've been playing around with FeathersJS and one thing that has been hard to find is a concrete example of setting up Sequelize with related tables. Here's an example of the users table…
Jest + Enzyme simulate form events
Since I've started doing Jest+Enzyme testing I've run into a few issues. One of those was dealing with state change related tests when you don't have access to the actual React component state.…
Easy Way to Migrate Wordpress Sites Between Servers
As part of cleanup and cost-cutting I had to recently moved my WordPress installations from one server to another. To make matters a bit more complicated the new server was not a cPanel…
Assassin's Creed Movie
I should probably start by admitting that I haven't played the game itself. But like must gamers (unless they've been living under a rock) I had an idea about what Assassin's Creed is…
How to Remember Tar Parameters
I've got the extraction options for tgz files pretty well ingrained in my brain, but whenever I had to create an archive I always had to go back to the manual. Not any…
Never Say Never
Sometimes you have to take one step back to take two forward. Or in other words, never say never. Or to put it in simple terms – I’ve gone perm again… I’ve been…
Killednloading MeteorJS Issue
When deploying my meteor app to a new server I ran into a weird issue that didn’t seem to come back with any helpful errors. Running: meteor would get stuck on Download meteor-tool@3.0.38…
How We Listen to the Music We Love
This wasn’t what I planned on writing about today… But since I’ve updated my gaming machine the other day (Goodbye Vista! – yeah, I was surprised too, to see it was still running…
SailsJS 0.9.8 and Bootstrap 3.0.3 LESS
While trying to setup a starter project I hit a bit of a snag. Turns out the latest less files don’t want to play nice with the grunt-contrib-less (0.5.2) that comes with SailsJS…




