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5 Tech highlights of this week

Bibek Mani Acharya — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 06:51:38 +0000

Github Copilot

Github Launched Copilot, an AI powered code completion tool that will basically suggests whole line or functions based on the context of the code you are writing.
https://twitter.com/github/status/1409883156333879300

Shopify Unite

Shopify drops App store and theme store commissions from 20% to 0% for transactions up to $1M on their Shopify Unite program.

ShopifyUnite

https://twitter.com/harleyf/status/1409934991254077448

Slack Huddles

Slack launches Huddles, a drop-in audio calls feature just like Discord where you can join in and out. Apart from audio, it will have a screen sharing feature as a bonus.
https://twitter.com/SlackHQ/status/1410298297705648133

Facebook Bulletin

Facebook launches a new subscription newsletter service where writers can publish free and paid newsletters.
https://www.bulletin.com/

macOs Monterey public beta

Apple announced first public beta of their new macOS Monterey. If you want to install the beta and test the new features you can visit https://beta.apple.com/sp/betaprogram/ . Make sure to make backups before installing

10 tools you might need as a developer

Bibek Mani Acharya — Fri, 18 Jun 2021 03:37:21 +0000

carbon.now.sh
Lets you easily create and share beautiful images of your source code.
wappalyzer.com
Chrome extension to find out what technology stacks the website is using.
remove.bg
This website lets you easily remove backgrounds from any image in just a click. No more removing backgrounds manually.
coolors.co
This website lets you generate color palette for your projects. You can explore from thousands of trending color palette to help you get inspired.
loading.io
This website lets you customize loading icons with tons of customization options.
vercel.com
Vercel is a development and collaboration platform for frontend developers which helps you build high-performance websites and applications at ease.
webcode.tools
This website helps you find code generators to help you with your front-end web projects.
github.com/rahuldkjain/github-profile-readme-generator
This tool provides an easy way to create a Github profile README.md with features like visitors count, github stats and many more.
photopea.com
Free and web based Photoshop alternative app which lets you easily create, edit your existing design on the go.
wireflow.co
Wireflow is a free and open source tool for creating beautiful user flow prototypes.

Generate temporary signed URL from s3 in Laravel

Bibek Mani Acharya — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 11:41:14 +0000

When you have stored files privately in Amazon s3 which you want to make public only for selected users for a limited amount of time, you can achieve that using the Storage facade in Laravel.

To create temporary files, you can use temporaryUrl method from the Illuminate\Support\Facade\Storage facade. You can use the method on the following syntax.

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Storage;

$temporarySignedUrl = Storage::disk('s3')->temporaryUrl("filepath.pdf", now()->addMinutes(10));

temporaryUrl method accepts two parameters as follows,

Path: This parameter accepts the full path of the file in the s3 bucket
Expiry Time: You can set the date for the expiry of the link.

How to rename git branch local and remote

Bibek Mani Acharya — Thu, 20 Feb 2020 09:31:06 +0000

If you want to rename a local branch even if you have already pushed it to remote, follow the following steps.

Rename your local branch
If you are on the branch you want to rename
git branch -m new_name

If you are on a different branch
git branch -m old_name new_name

Delete the old remote branch and push the new local branch with new name
git push origin :old_name new_name

Reset the upstream branch for the new name local branch
git push origin -u new_name