Tell me something - are you happy with how ClearType, the default font renderer in Windows does its job? If you are like me and have to look at your computer screen for the most part of your day, you might prefer something better. Let me show you something really quick. This is how the fonts are rendered on my Windows machine: MacType Font Rendering Example If you would like to achieve similar results, there are only a couple of steps you have to do, and they don’t require any tweaking.

Let’s face it - as developers we look at code 90% of our time we spend in front of the monitor. While there tons of fonts available for our favorite text editors, both free and paid, I have found one font in particular to be extremely enjoyable (and believe me - I’ve tried a few). That is - JetBrains Mono, a free and open source font from the very same company that brought us tools like WebStorm and PyCharm.

If you’ve been following my blog you might have noticed that I haven’t written anything in quite some time. “So, what’s up?”, you might ask. Well, long story short - lots of things have happened March through May, 2021. Most of them unpleasant to say the least and personal, so I’d rather not disclose the details. However, I’ve also done a few things related to Information Technologies. I’ve switched to Windows entirely.

Ever since Google discontinued Google+ (its social network) there’s no obvious way to delete unused profile pictures from your account. Google Profile Images However, there’s a workaround I’ve tested personally. To delete your unused profile pictures (or any photos you might want to delete from your Google account), you have to be signed in to your google account. After you are signed in, follow this simple steps:

For a long time the only way to launch Linux commands in Windows was with Cygwin. But Cygwin is rather bulky and can take a long time to download if you are on a slower Internet connection. As I’ve mentioned before, I love Linux for its stability and reliability. So I was looking for a simpler way to execute Linux commands in Windows, and found it! I present to you GNU on Windows also known as GoW).

For a long time I have been a big fan of Sarah Drasner’s theme for Visual Studio Code, and even used a port of it in Visual Studio 2019 Community Edition. Ever since I’ve started learning .Net Framework on both Linux and Windows, I ’ve also started using the default Visual Studio 2019 theme in both the IDE, and the editor. Simply because I like unity across the developer tools I use.

So, as you may or may not know, GitHub is testing themes for its website, and the feature is now in beta according to GitHub Docs. To change how your GitHub looks, you need to log in to your GitHub account, click your profile pictures, choose Settings > Appearance and on the section that opens, choose one of the three themes that are currently available. Below are the screen shots, courtesy of GitHub Docs: GitHub Account Settings GitHub Appearance GitHub Themes Please note that, as I have mentioned in the beginning of this article, that the theme feature is currently in beta, and is subject to change.

Visual Studio Code Visual Studio Code (or simply vscode, or even code) is an editor developed by Microsoft. The editor was released back in 2015 and by now is considered one of the best if not the best code editors out there. I admit, I used Vim for a bit, but switched back to vscode+vim plugin, since I work with .Net nowadays. I am going to tell you about my favorite set of plugins in one of my next posts.

I have always tried and followed the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) in every project I worked on. It’s not always an easy thing to do, but Web Accessibility (WA) is very important, as we all have difficulties when interacting with a computer or mobile screen, in one way or the other. For example, my eyesight is dropping as I am approaching the age of forty. According to this article:

The official guide on how to deploy your website to Netlify, which can be found here, explains the required steps: Step 1: Add Your New Site. Creating a new site on Netlify is simple. Step 2: Link to Your GitHub (or supported version-control tool of choice) Step 3: Authorize Netlify. Step 4: Select Your Repo. Step 5: Configure Your Settings. Step 6: Build Your Site. Step 7: All Done. And it’s really as simple as that.