Geoffrey van Wyk geoffreyvanwyk

Permanent WSL DNS Fix (WSL 2.2.1+)

If you're encountering ping github.com failing inside WSL with a Temporary failure in name resolution, you're not alone — this has been a long-standing issue, especially when using VPNs or corporate networks.

This issue is now fixed robustly with DNS tunneling, which preserves dynamic DNS behavior and avoids limitations like WSL’s former hard cap of 3 DNS servers in /etc/resolv.conf.

DNS tunneling is enabled by default in WSL version 2.2.1 and later, meaning that if you're still seeing DNS resolution issues, the first and most effective fix is simply to upgrade WSL. Upgrading WSL updates the WSL platform itself, but does not affect your installed Linux distributions, apps, or files.

To upgrade WSL, follow these steps,

1.) Download a Nerd Font

2.) Unzip and copy to ~/.fonts

3.) Run the command fc-cache -fv to manually rebuild the font cache

Installing Xdebug for XAMPP with PHP 7.x

New: XAMPP - XDebug Setup for PHP 8

Requirements

XAMPP for Windows: https://www.apachefriends.org/download.html
Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015, 2017 and 2019

Setup

Offline-first tools for web developers

A quick list of tools for building HTML/CSS/JS apps that work well offline. Ping me at @nolanlawson if I missed anything!

Hybrid app development

Tools for bundling your HTML/CSS/JS into a native app.

	"""
	Here is a way to flatten python dictionaries for making multipart/form-data POST requests.

	{"some": ["balls", "toys"], "field": "value", "nested": {"objects": "here"}}

	->

	{"some[0]": "balls", "some[1]": "toys", "field": "value", "nested[objects]": "here"}

	{
	"background" : "#282828",
	"black" : "#282828",
	"blue" : "#458588",
	"brightBlack" : "#928374",
	"brightBlue" : "#83A598",
	"brightCyan" : "#8EC07C",
	"brightGreen" : "#B8BB26",
	"brightPurple" : "#D3869B",
	"brightRed" : "#FB4934",

	#!/bin/bash
	mkdir /tmp/adodefont
	cd /tmp/adodefont
	mkdir -p ~/.fonts

	wget https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-code-pro/archive/2.030R-ro/1.050R-it.zip
	unzip 1.050R-it.zip
	cp source-code-pro-2.030R-ro-1.050R-it/OTF/*.otf ~/.fonts/

	wget https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-serif-pro/archive/2.000R.zip

	# Usage:
	# 1) Ctr+S downloads page to ~/Desktop/books.html
	# 2) Run script
	# 3) Find your books in /tmp/humble_books
	# 4) Read them
	# 5) Profit
	cat ~/Desktop/books.html \|
	grep "https://dl.humble.com" \|
	sed -n -E 's/.data-web\=\"(https://dl.humble.com/([.]+).([a-z]+)?["]+)./\1 \2 \3/p' \|
	sed 's/&/&/g' > /tmp/humble_books_list && cat /tmp/humble_books_list \|

	#!/bin/bash

	echo "Running PhantomJs..."

	LOGFILE=/tmp/phantomjs.log

	exec 6>&1 # Link file descriptor #6 with stdout.
	exec > $LOGFILE # stdout replaced with file "logfile.txt".

	# ----------------------------------------------------------- #

	(ns hipstr.test.validators.user-validator-test
	(:require [hipstr.validators.user-validator :as uv])
	(:use clojure.test))

	(defn validate-email [email]
	"Validates the provided email for us, and returns the
	set of validation messages for the email, if any."
	(:email (uv/email-validator {:email email})))

	(defn validate-username [username]