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Just some useful terminal commands I’ve made over time Maybe they can help someone else? mkcd How often do you do this? 1 2 mkdir <folder_name> cd <folder_name> Usage 1 mkcd <folder_name> Why don’t we make it just a little bit easier? 1 2 3 4 5 function mkcd() { readonly folder=${1:?You must provide a directory name} mkdir -p "${folder}" cd "${folder}" } to (and more) I create a lot of files from the terminal, but then use an IDE for code editing (I know, I’ll learn Vim eventually)....

How to make a boring task interesting, and learning more about accessibility in iOS. This is part of a series of blogs about some of the projects I worked on as a part of my time at the Apple Developer Academy in Naples, Italy. Context This project at the Academy had two clear goals: conduct actual user research with our target demographic, and make sure our app worked well with the VoiceOver accessibility feature for people with low vision....

Dipping my toe in the world of interactive mapping Where will your next movie night be? Click here to see the map! I’m currently enrolled in the Masters of Geospatial Science at RMIT. As a part of that study, I had a chance to study cartography and visualisation, which is such a delightful intersection of my interests in design, UX, and programming. For the final mapping assessment for this course, we were asked to create an interactive map for the residents of the City of Melbourne using Mapbox, Javascript, and HTML/CSS....

My first interesting keyboard, the Vortex Cypher How often do you think about the tools you use every day? When was the last time you thought about why your computer keyboard is laid out the way it is? Defaults chosen for us over 100 years ago! While QWERTY mostly works, it has some ergonomic and efficiency drawbacks. In the mechanical keyboard community, being able to change what each key does is the first step to taking ownership over these tools we use on a daily basis....