< 1 min readGoogle announced on Nov 1, 2019 that they are acquiring wearable company Fitbit at $2.1 billion. Senior Vice President of Devices & Services, Rick Osterloh writes on their blog saying, “Google aspires to create tools that help people enhance their knowledge, success, health and happiness. This goal is closely aligned with Fitbit’s long-time focus on wellness and…
3 min readOver past few years, Responsive design has become quite the hot topic in the web design community. There are various frameworks which help to build responsive design faster. One of the ways is using Viewport percentage unitsor “Viewport Units” for short, a CSS3 property which helps you to automate some aspects of your responsive design. Using viewport units,…
4 min readThe UI for languages that are written and read from right-to-left (RTL) such as Arabic, Hebrew, and Urdu, are flipped to ensure that the content is easy to understand and is compatible with the RTL languages. Let’s get started, The following are the basic steps I followed to make the UI compatible with RTL languages. The…
< 1 min readIf you want to rename a local branch even if you have already pushed it to remote, follow the following steps. Rename your local branch If you are on the branch you want to rename git branch -m new_name If you are on a different branch git branch -m old_name new_name Delete the old remote…
3 min readCSS variables, or “CSS Custom Properties”. It allows you to work with variables directly in CSS. They are very useful for reducing repetition in CSS, and also for powerful runtime effects like theme switching and has a various polyfilling future CSS features. It believes in the principle DRY — Don’t Repeat Yourself. With the help of CSS…
2 min readBuying Domain Name and hosting in Nepal surely was a hassle due to lack of proper International Gateways. We had to rely on Friends and Families abroad or some third party registrars in Nepal. The scenario is changing slowly with the introduction of various companies providing such services with Full Client Portal and local Payment…
< 1 min readThere are certain situations when you unknowingly add files to git and you try to remove those files later on by adding the names to .gitignore. Even though you add the name of the files in .gitignore, git will continue to track those files even if they were added to the .gitignore later on. To…
< 1 min readThere may be certain situations when you do the changes and merge the working branch on the master branch. Later on, you realize that you missed something on the commit and you want to make those changes on the same commit. You can revert the git merge by following ways. The condition here is you…
< 1 min readSometimes we may not notice that the local branches are increasing and manually deleting branches one by one can take much time. You can use the below code snippet in terminal to Delete all the local branches but keep the master $ git branch | grep -v “master” | xargs git branch -D
< 1 min readTo exclude a sub-folder inside a folder in .gitignore, the following can be done. app/* !app/subfolder/ app/subfolder/* !app/subfolder/subfolder2/ This will ignore all files and sub-folders inside “subfolder” but it will ignore the “subfolder2” Note: Using * after the slash(/) indicates that the folder can be ignored but there maybe other conditions below for other…
