Darth CAV's Blog

This is just a set of disconnected and sometimes incoherent ramblings about many things, but mainly software development, especially related to Web technologies and tools to improve the quality of web applications.

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Posts

  • Sending locale information in ssh connections

    When accessing remote servers and trying to perform remote tasks, you meet sometimes the message:

    Jan 17, 2016

  • Cleaning up the NPM cache

    Quite a while ago I realized that in my local development machines and in some continuous integration servers, the available hard disk free space was suspiciously shrinking over time. A quick research showed that directories related to the npm package manager were guilty.

    Nov 22, 2015

  • Activating the hidden Administrator account under Windows

    Sometimes you buy (or the IT guys of your company give you) a new computer with a pre-installed Windows. You happen to have an account with administrator rights, but the login screen does not display the damned Administrator account.

    Nov 18, 2015

  • About this blog

    I decided over the weekend to start with some kind of blogging experience using GitHub pages. Within this post, I will describe briefly the configurations basics of my personal website in GitHub Pages and a couple of hurdles I found on my way. As a main disclaimer, I am not a Ruby developer, so I had to experiment as I went along.

    Nov 15, 2015