Nowicki.io
Nowicki.io
Szymon Nowicki personal website
Public side notes and hacking journeys (and some rants) by Szymon Nowicki.
Public side notes and hacking journeys (and some rants) by Szymon Nowicki.
✍️Write rieview ✍️Rezension schreiben 🏷️Get Badge! 🏷️Abzeichen holen! ⚙️Edit entry ⚙️Eintrag bearbeiten 📰News 📰Neuigkeiten
Tags: journeys
I wanted to upgrade my server, ended up using Ubuntu daily
8.3.2025 19:19Making linux amazing for an Apple userSelf hosted linux and time machine backups over samba (docker)
9.12.2024 19:19Time Machine on my home serverLets try fixing Mastodon search
22.6.2024 18:43Cross instance search for MastodonUbuntu server with two SSD RAID1 array, LUKS encrypted with keyscript taking key over curl ftp/http.
18.2.2024 19:19LVM RAID1, LUKS, encrypted with key over FTPI managed to set up a server that hosts real stuff and sits in my living room. Here's how I did it.
9.2.2024 19:19Ma! I have a server in a living room!Notes about how I started a new project - a curated search engine for web developers. How it started and how it's going...
16.12.2023 18:43Kukei.euThere are plenty of tutorials how to backup your iCloud photos on an external SSD. This is better one.
7.4.2023 18:43Backup your iCloud Photos on external SSDHow this blog moved from gatsby in favor of React as a template system, bundle-less nodejs and small parceljs setup.
17.2.2023 19:19No more GatsbyMy life on Mastodon with a private instance
12.11.2022 18:43On MastodonI moved to Mastodon, and I'm more than happy. Post about ugly capitalism, evil organisations, and going back to old days.
12.11.2022 14:43Twitter migrationThoughts and experiences I gathered during my first recruitment process where I was the recruiter one.
8.3.2022 19:19How to write a good resume for a software developerSmall pattern that renders a React component as a child of a custom HTMLElement
3.2.2022 20:00How to render a react app as a Web ComponentAfter some update of Apple's Reminders app pasting a list into Reminders stopped creating a list of reminders items. Here's a workaround for that.
23.1.2021 09:54How to import a list into Apple remindersBlinding my Roomba so it doesn't recognise dark places as cliff edges refusing to jump to it.
19.12.2020 09:34Make your roomba work on a dark carpetHands-on comparison between MBP 16 - the base and top models. How they perform in programming activities? Is 16GB RAM enough?
7.9.2020 20:15MacBook Pro 16 - 64G i9 vs 16G i7 for heavy webdevIn September I had a pleasure to give a short talk as a Lightning Talks speaker at Smashing Conference in Freiburg. Watch it! Now!
2.12.2018 19:50IDN lightning talk on Smashing Conference at FreiburgHacking CSS to make a perfect no-jumping placeholders.
16.10.2018 19:17Pure CSS dynamic multiline paragraph placeholderHow to make sure your app supports people who use emails with localised domain names so QA won't report a bug (and maybe some user would actually use that).
13.7.2018 18:57How not to be a rookie and let your users use their localised domainsInternationalized Domain Names are hell. Let's dive into that hell and figure out what are the main pain points and why it's can be an issue for you.
13.7.2018 18:32Why you don't want e-mail in internationalised domainWebpack and mysteriously blocked port on macOS localhost.
27.3.2018 19:18Permanently blocked port on Macos High SierraMany forget that _Promise_ is not just a nice way to simplify callbacks it's also a nice way for lazy loading some information and keep it forever.
9.8.2017 12:50Promise is not just simplified callbacks patternStory about really hard to trace memory leak that happened "sometimes"
11.2.2016 12:38CSS image transition and memory leaksHow to make a real Singleton object prototype in javascript and make it really unique. What is object prototype and how the hell primitive object use extended properties.
22.9.2015 20:19Simple javascript singleton pattern that works everywhere