Marc is a Software Engineer with over 20 years of experience developing full stack applications and distributed systems. Fueled by plants with a passion to improve our world and environment through technology.
I mostly write about tech I find interesting, or want to log my discoveries for my future self and others.
Tech
Sometimes you want to test your web project from a physical device. Simply shrinking the screen size on a desktop browser can certainly help with a large portion of the process and ensure your system is responsive, but it still lacks the feel of a touch interface.
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I often use my PS5 controller on my Mac Studio with PS Remote Play to quickly login and check something or pick up a time-bound item without having to leave my work desk. This is great until you press the PS button and it opens the app switch menu, losing focus on the PS ...
Out of the box NextJS comes with eslint, but this only helps with code quality and does not enforce any kind of formatting. You can heavily enhance this default config by combining it with Prettier for consistent formatting across your projects and team.
When working on a bunch of development projects, specifically JavaScript, drives can fill up pretty fast with useless data. The most common is the well known node_modules which can take multiple gigabytes on some projects. Unless you're working on these day to day, it can be ...
Recently I've been using Tailscale for easily linking and managing my personal devices. I love the simplicity of it, but I got annoyed when the hostname pattern wasn't consistent across my devices.