I was tinkering with react native recently and learned a few things about setting up the dev environment and running it. This post details my experience. As a next step, I wanted to explore how we can integrate a react native code module into an existing Android app. Here is…

Recently I tried setting up react native on my mac and the process was not a smooth one. I ended up spending more time than I originally planned to make everything work. Here are a few points that I would like to share with you. Here is the official documentation…

Developing a NestJS app is a joyful experience. Let's see how we can add unit tests and end-to-end tests to a NestJS application. I have learned a lot from this article written by Débora Barreto Ornellas and this write-up is based mostly on it. There are five high-level steps that…

Recently I wanted to try out deploying a NestJS project in AWS as a lambda using Serverless framework. This note is about what I learned, hoping that it may help others too. Let's get familiarised with the terms used in the header. NestJS — A framework for Node.js …

Let me take a wild guess. Once you got past the classic ‘Hello World!’, we all have done a project called ‘The Calculator’, regardless of the front end tech stack. Recently, I came to know about a feature in an expense tracking app called “Spend Together”. …

About twelve years back when I saw the accordion control as part of the ASP.net AJAX suite, my feeling was beyond surprise. The smooth animation, the expansion of a raw when you click on it, the intuitive behavior that comes with it, it was a game-changer in the Web UX…

Here is a neat trick I learned today. It is about automatically cycling through different tabs in Safari browser. In case you need to show different web pages in a monitor/display this will be helpful. The solution is about writing an ‘Apple Script’ using the built-in script editor available in MacOS. Open the editor, paste the below code and hit the ‘Run’ button. tell application "Safari" repeat repeat with i from (count of tabs of window 1) to 1 by -1

Open terminal Go the folder where cacerts resides. For example the location of cacerts in MacOS Mohave is: /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_212.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/security 3. The below command list all the certs added to the truststore. Make sure you see the cert to be removed is in the list. keytool -list -keystore cacerts When prompted to ‘Enter keystore password:’, enter the password. The default password is ‘changeit’.

If you have installed Jenkins using homebrew and if you want to uninstall it completely, this is how you do it: brew uninstall jenkins --force brew cleanup If you have installed it as a package from Jenkins.io follow this post.