How to search for large messages in Thunderbird
You can search for large messages by folder or by your entire email account.
Useful to reduce your mailbox size with a few deletions.
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Thunderbird: How to compose an HTML e-mail (when plain-text messages are your default)
Nobody needs HTML e-mails. However, you occasionally might have to write an HTML message for some weird reason. Here is how:
- Hold the Shift-Key while clicking on "Write", "Reply", "Reply All", or "Forward".
That's it. :)
How to revert features for deployment, merge back, and how to stay sane
Removing features and merging those changes back can be painful. Here is how it worked for me.\
tl;dr: Before merging back: reinstate reverted features in a temporary branch, then me...
How to (possibly) fix Google Calendar in Thunderbird (Lightning) on Ubuntu
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How to manage Thunderbird mailing lists
You can group contacts using a mailing list in Thunderbird for easier access and less trouble when trying to find out who to send a message to. Here is how to do this:
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- Press the "New List" button
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Nokogiri: How to parse large XML files with a SAX parser
In my case [...] the catalog is an XML that contains all kinds of possible products, categories and vendors and it is updated once a month. When you read this file with the Nokogiri default (DOM) parser, it creates a tree structure with all bran...
How to make Webpacker compile once for parallel tests, and only if necessary
Webpack is the future. We're using it in our latest Rails applications.
For tests, we want to compile assets like for production.
For parallel tests, we want to avoid 8 workers compiling the same files at the same time.
When assets did not change...
How to search through logs on staging or production environments
We generally use multiple application servers (at least two) and you have to search on all of them if you don't know which one handled the request you are looking for.
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RubyMine / IntelliJ: How to increase UI and fonts for presentations
When giving a presentation where you do some coding, the font size you usually use is probably a bit too small and makes code hard to read for users on smaller screens or low-bandwidth connections when the image quality is lower.
Here are two sol...
Bookmarklet to generate a commit message for an issue in Linear.app
Your commit messages should include the ID of the issue your code belongs to.
Our preferred syntax prefixes the issue title with its ID in brackets, e.g. [FOO-123] Avatars for users
.
Here is how to generate that from an issue in Linear.
Add a n...
Savon testing: How to expect any message
When using Savon to connect a SOAP API, you may want to use Savon::SpecHelper
to mock requests in your tests as described in their documentation.
When sending a message body, th...