Workbench

VS Code uses my operating system’s default browser by default. But I want to override this setting as I am using Safari for General purpose and brave for other stuff.

I only realized today that I can override this. So here are the steps to do the same.

• Press Cmd + , to open Settings.
• Search for “External Browser”.
• Under Workbench > External: Browser, type a browser name like firefox, brave or enter the absolute path to the application (e.g., /Applications/Brave Browser.app).

Today, I realized that in GoDaddy, up to 500 subdomains are allowed under a standard domain, and 1,500 under a premium domain.

So I hosted my Life Left app under the subdomain lifeleft.binovarghese.com.

Here’s how I did it:

• Deployed the project on Netlify.
• Created the domain under Product domains in Domain management in the Netlify dashboard.
• Added this subdomain in GoDaddy under DNS.
• Added the record type as CNAME and the data as the Netlify site’s default subdomain (e.g., your-site-name.netlify.app).

That’s it, your project will be live after some time.

The most frictionless tool I have ever seen is a piece of paper and pen.

It’s simple and easy enough to not think about anything else related to it. I don’t need to think about how I can use that, as my brain knows how to use it like I know how to eat. There are no disruptions like new interfaces where the button position has been changed, or performance glitches due to useless features. It’s just a tool that easily becomes part of your body, and you can start working immediately. Eventually it will disappear from your mind when you are using it. That’s how it becomes a perfect tool.

I want to share my writings to my colleague thorugh my IP before publishing it. So here how I done it:

• Get your IP using the command ipconfig from the terminal.
• Go to your Hugo project’s root directory in your terminal.
• Run the following command, replacing <YOUR_NETWORK_IP> with the IP address.
• hugo server --bind 0.0.0.0 --baseUrl http://<YOUR_NETWORK_IP>:1313
• The server will start, and the output should show the website is available at http://<YOUR_NETWORK_IP>:1313.

I have came across the following article recently.

Software is a bit like this house plant: its wellbeing depends on the folks who constantly tend it. Without us around, it gradually erodes.

I used Google Orkut in the past and I loved it at that time. It was fun to send messages in the scrapbook, cool usernames, and enjoy all the other social media features that felt cool back then. But after the rise of Facebook and other giants, Google shut down Orkut. They sent us an email with a link to download our data archive and said goodbye. I still have those emails from Orkut, and when I read them recently, they gave me a nostalgic happiness.

What I realize now is that everything eventually comes to an end when the gardeners stop tending their gardens. We cannot take it for granted forever. Today we have access to some of the most amazing things in human history. We need to be grateful and enjoy the beauty of it. So keep on gardening, and cherish your fellow gardeners.

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