Looks like some people on Twitter have just discovered update-motd and, in particular, /etc/update-motd.d/50-motd-news.
TL;DR: just run this if you want to disable motd-news:
sudo sed -i 's/^ENABLED=.*/ENABLED=0/' /etc/default/motd-news
TypeScript, preact, and unistore
When I tried to use unistore instead of redux in one of my pet projects, I discovered that its TypeScript typings are not very accurate. In this post I try to come up with better typings for unistore’s connect() function.
Jest: How to Mock window.location.href
There may be a situation where you need to mock methods or properties on window.location in Jest. However, because of peculiarities of jsdom, this could be challenging. In this post there is one of the possible solutions to this problem.
preact-cli 3 and sass-loader 8
When using sass-loader 8.0.0 with preact-cli 3.0.0-next.19, preact build fails with an error: Invalid options object. Sass Loader has been initialised using an options object that does not match the API schema. options has an unknown property ‘includePaths’. Quick fix: use sass-loader 7.3.1.
Easy Way to Make pino and debug Work Together
Sometimes you may need to integrate debug with a high performance logger, such as pino. And of course, there is an NPM package for that: pino-debug. However, if you look at its source code, you will find out that it uses undocumented dirty hacks, which, in my opinion, make it quite fragile. This article demonstrates a much simpler solution.
MariaDB Driver for Knex
I once had to work with a project which used MariaDB connector for Node.js, and for some reasons it was necessary to add Knex query builder to it. The main issue was that Knex supports only a few drivers, and MariaDB is unfortunately not one of them. I had to write a MariaDB client for Knex myself, and that was surprisingly easy.
inet_xtoy: inet_ntop() and inet_pton() bindings for Node.js
A simple addon for Node.js that provides bindings to inet_ntop() and inet_pton() functions
Store FormData object in localStorage
This post describes how to serialize a FormData object to JSON and how to fill the form back with the serialized data.
WordPress: How to Disable BrowseHappy
When you go to the Dashboard of your WordPress site, WordPress checks whether your browser is up-to-date, and displays a notice if it is not. However, the browser check is performed by an external site. WP sends such data as: visitor’s user agent string, WordPress version, and the URL of the blog (and, implicitly, its IP address). Unfortunately, there is no way to opt out of that in the Dashboard. Luckily, there is a solution.
How to Restrict Access to User REST API in WordPress
By default, WordPress allows an unauthenticated user to view the list of the registered users with the help of the REST API. But, for example, to view the list of the users in the Dashboard, the user needs to have list_users capability (that is, be an Administrator). While the REST API does not expose sensitive information (such as emails) to unauthenticated users, it may be desirable to restrict users endpoint form unauthenticated users.