Web gems 💎

I have benefited from countless Stack Overflow answers, well-written blog posts, and documentation across the web. Here's a list of resources I used to overcome challenging problems and still reference:

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) ¶

• Change default Java version - mkyoung
• Maintenance commands - Ubuntu documentation wiki
• Open Windows Explorer from current directory - Sole Sensei
• Set CHROME_BIN env variable - Shivahari P
• Puppeteer setup on WSL - ktkr3d

Service workers ¶

• Set headers for service worker response - Phyks
• No-op service worker kill switch - Jeff Posnick
• Explicitly set CORS as mode for service worker Request - Jeff Posnick
• Apparent duplicate requests made by service worker - Jeff Posnick

Git ¶

• Fix accidental commit to the wrong branch - Katie Sylor-Miller
• Restore a deleted file - Kate Hudson

Accessability ¶

• Provide hidden context for screen readers only - 18F Accessibility Guide

Other ¶

• IE11 ignores flex declarations with a unitless flex-basis value - Philip Walton
• Pi-hole Spotify domain whitelist - Korhan Tinaztepe
• R cheat sheet - Mhairi McNeill
• Fix npm ERR! global requires an add or rm option - Bruce Ingalls
• Preload, prefetch, preconnect tag reference - Ivan Akulov
• Creating an NPM package - Jonathan Wood
• Find Broken Links on Your Website Using Wget - Peter Leung

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Published 01 Nov 2020