Ubuntu MATE: Custom time format for clock panel widget

For some years Google Chrome has allowed you to add desktop icon for any web page by going to Tools / Add to desktop. Unfortunately this doesn't work reliably on Ubuntu MATE with recent Chromes: The icons could not be moved away from the desktop...

Large Rails projects tend to define multiple custom ways to format Dates or DateTimes. This often leads to duplicated format strings, wrong formats and unnecessary introduction of new formats.

to_fs also supports to refer to those formats b...

I was unsatisfied with the existing memory status applets for the Xfce panel, so I wrote a little shell script that shows me just the information I need. Now I use it via a "Generic Monitor" panel applet.

Put this at some place like `~/bin/memory...

If you use awesome 3.5, and a gnome or mate panel, the panel will often receive focus when you switch desktops. As a workaround:

1. Add this rule to your rc.lua:

   { rule = { class = "Mate-panel" }, properties = { ontop = true, focusable ...
   

To add a new panel in MATE:

• Right-click on an existing panel and choose New Panel
• A new panel will appear at the bottom of the screen
• Right-click on the new panel, choose Properties and uncheck Expand
• Alt+Drag the panel to the desir...

If you want a widget for awesome that runs a command regularly (every X seconds) and puts the output into your awesome panel, this is for you.

Put the code below into your ~/.config/awesome/rc.lua. It supplies tw...

Rails' ActiveSupport::TimeWithZone objects have both a timezone code and offset, e.g. Thu, 28 Mar 2019 16:00:00 CET +01:00. Ruby's stdlib TZInfo also has time zones, but with different identifiers.
Unfortunately, not all timezone codes can b...

Sometimes you need to restart the Gnome panel, e.g. when you installed a new Gnome panel widget but the widget list was cached before.

You often don't want to do sign out and back in for this.
Instead, just run:

killall gnome-panel

This ...

For Rails models where only one of multiple attributes may be filled out at the same time, there is no built-in validation.

I've seen different solutions in the wild, each with different downsides:

• Private method referenced via validate: wor...

In contrast to RSpec's included allow_value matcher, the attached matcher will also work on associations, which makes it ideal for testing assignable_values.

Usage example

describe Unit do

  describe '#building' do
    it 'shoul...