Prevent SSH from timing out
If you have problems with SSH session timing out, add the following to your /etc/.ssh/config:
Host *
ServerAliveInterval 55
ServerAliveCountMax 2
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Prevent long strings from stretching your <table> with CSS
- Give the table a style
table-layout: fixed - Give the cells in the first row a width
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Split your parallel tests by execution time and keep execution logs up to date
Both knapsack and parallel_tests have the option to split groups by historic execution time. The required logs for this might be outdated since you manual...
Prevent unnecessary automated back-and-forth when sending noreply-emails
When you send automated emails from a noreply@-address, and the recipient has an out of office enabled, the autoreply bounces and they get an additional email with an error message.
To prevent the recipient's auto-response and the following error...
Prevent floating sibling elements from wrapping in CSS
When you style multiple adjacent block elements with float: left, they will be rendered next to each other similar to inline elements. Also like inline elements, they will wrap at the horizontal end of the parent container.
If you want to keep ...
How to prevent Nokogiri from fixing invalid HTML
Nokogiri is great. It will even fix invalid HTML for you, like a browser would (e.g. move block elements out of parents which are specified to not allow them).
>> Nokogiri::HTML.fragment("<h1><p>foo</p><span>bar</span></h1>").to_s
=> "<h1...
Flexbox: How to prevent <pre> elements from overflowing
I recently had the problem that embedded code boxes crashed my layout.
It turned out that pres break out of their containers when using them inside a deeper nested flex layout.
For me it was a flex inside a flex item (fleXzibit).
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Why your Cucumber feature loses cookies when run under Selenium
When your Cucumber feature seems to forget cookies / sessions when you run it with Selenium check if the test travels in time like here:
Given the date is 2017-10-20
When I sign in
Then I should see "Welcome!"
What happens here i...
Prevent your Firefox from auto-updating
Note that if you plan to freeze your Firefox versions because your Selenium tests break whenever Firefox updates, [there is a better way that lets you keep an up-to-date Firefox](https://makandracards.com/makandra/1575-how-to-install-an-frozen-ver...
Prevent Bundler from downloading the internet
As a user of Bundler you have spent significant time looking at this message:
Fetching source index for http://rubygems.org/
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Haml: Prevent whitespace from being stripped in production
Disclaimer
This is not an issue in newer versions of HAML (starting with 5.0.0), as the ugly-option was removed so that in development everything is rendered ugly, too.
Problem
When ...