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How to install ZSH on CentOS

How to install ZSH on CentOS

ZSH [https://www.zsh.org/] it is a popular Unix shell, with some features that you maybe will not found in Bash. These are the step that you need to follow to ZSH install on your CentOS: * Make sure that the command chsh is available in your system if you

Update NPM when NVM was installed using chocolatey on Windows

Chocolatey [https://chocolatey.org/] is used frequently to install this kind of utilities but sometimes it could come with problems. NVM [https://github.com/coreybutler/nvm-windows] is a tool to install different versions of Node.js and it is very useful for developers because it is very simple to work

Recovering GRUB in UEFI boot on Ubuntu or Linux Mint

Recovering GRUB in UEFI boot on Ubuntu or Linux Mint

Modern computers with UEFI are a pain when you are installing a system different from windows and is harder if you want a double boot. Last week I installed Linux Mint on my laptop that already has Windows. If you didn't know Linux Mint is a distribution based on Ubuntu

Huawei Mate 10 Pro review

Huawei Mate 10 Pro review

I bought this phone in February 2018, so I have been using this phone for a while. The reason that I bought this phone is that I needed a faster phone than my HTC 10 for applications like DJI. In the same month (February) USA started a campaign to remove

Cusca v2.0.2

Here is a new small release of my ghost theme Cusca [https://github.com/wdiazux/cusca], with some improvements and updates. From this release you need to compile the theme for every small release from now using Webpack, the reason is that now it is using the new Ghost API

How to install Doom Emacs

How to install Doom Emacs

Doom-Emacs is a configuration for the people who like VIM but want to use Emacs. I am been using Doom Emacs for a couple months now and I am happy with some of the features. Doom-Emacs [http://spacemacs.org/] is not the most famous configuration for Emacs, the number one

Cusca 2.0 - Ghost theme

Cusca 2.0 - Ghost theme

I am happy to announce a new Cusca version, the first version was released in 2017 and this is a big release, completely rewritten. The previous version still works for Ghost 1.0 and it also work for version 2.0, you will see some warnings in the installation because

PST to Office 365 Migration Tool
by mailsDaddy

PST to Office 365 Migration Tool by mailsDaddy

PST or Personal Storage Table is a file used to store email messages, folders, email attachments, to-dos, and calendar. If you have one of this files you can use a software to move all this content to your Microsoft Office 365 account. This is a review for PST to Office

How to redirect URLs in Ghost using Nginx

Redirect URLs is now possible on Ghost uploading a JSON file redirects.json to the console since the version 1.9.0, but the recommended way is to use your web server to make redirects. If you don't have access to your web server and you need more information, here

Kernel MBOX to PST

Kernel MBOX to PST

Kernel MBOX to PST [https://www.nucleustechnologies.com/mbox-to-pst.html] is a Windows software to migrate MBOX files to Outlook. If you don't have idea what MBOX is, it is a file format used for holding collections of email messages. Basically, you can migrate a bunch of emails to Office

Couldn't modify partition map on macOS

Couple weeks ago my brother's MacBook Pro started with some problems and it was damaging external drives like USB and SD cards, the system was corrupting the partition map of these devices and wasn't possible re-format the partition. He asked me if I know I way to recover the devices,

Stellar Phoenix Mac Data Recovery

Stellar Phoenix Mac Data Recovery

Two weeks ago I was working on a project and deleting unused files from the project, one of the folders that I deleted by mistake was the folder where I was working, that was a day of work and I didn't have a backup, at that moment I started the

How to install FFmpeg on Windows

How to install FFmpeg on Windows

FFmpeg is a free software, and a multi-platform solution for video, audio, and other multimedia files and streams. It is a terminal software, but there are graphical options like QwinFF [http://qwinff.github.io/], Avanti [http://www.avanti.arrozcru.org/], FFmpegYAG [https://sourceforge.net/projects/ffmpegyag/] or Axiom [https://github.

Can't upgrade Ghost after a Node.js upgrade

Can't upgrade Ghost after a Node.js upgrade

Since couple weeks I was trying to update ghost to the latest version, but I was getting the same error, I thought it was a bug in Ghost-cli or from dependencies, but I was wrong. The error that I am talking is this one: Debug Information: OS: Ubuntu, v16.04

Looking the fastest DNS with Namebench (Google, OpenDNS, CloudFlare)

I will explain very quickly what is a Domain Name System (DNS) before to start with this tutorial. A DNS is a Networking service that converts IP addresses to domain names, for example, if you enter this IP address in your browser https://172.217.2.78 it redirects to

How to remove the Guest user from the login on MacOS

How to remove the Guest user from the login on MacOS

If you computer is peresonal and no one else use it, probably you don't need the guest user like me. Personally I dodn't like to see the guest user on my login screen. The easy way to do it is using the System preference, here are the steps you need

Slack a dark theme with Tomorrow Night colors [Discontinued]

Slack a dark theme with Tomorrow Night colors [Discontinued]

Discontinued Slack now includes a dark theme [https://slackhq.com/dark-mode-for-slack-desktop], this theme is discontinued. Today, I want to share my theme for Slack [https://slack.com/], this is a dark theme based on colors from the Tomorrow Night scheme and inspired in my current VScode [https://code.visualstudio.com/

1Password Review

1Password Review

Like other posts, this is about my experience with this application that I use maybe since 3 years ago, and I still use it for a good number of reasons that you will see in this post. This post is not sponsored. 1Password [https://1password.com/] is a password manager

How to install NVM (Node Version Manager) with Homebrew

Node version manager [https://github.com/creationix/nvm] is a script to manage multiple active node.js versions. And I usually install most applications using homebrew [https://wdiaz.org/installing-applications-on-mac-like-linux-with-homebrew] . NOTE: install NVM with Homebrew is not officially supported. So these are the steps to install NVM with Homebrew: 1.

Solving error in ZSH and LOCALES - ValueError: unknown locale: UTF-8

Before to start this problem happened to me on MacOS, but it could happen in other OS like GNU/Linux, and it is a common problem whit Python applications. You can diagnostic the problem using the command locale in the terminal: $ locale LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_CTYPE="UTF-8"

Switching to Linode

For a long time I used Digital Ocean [https://www.digitalocean.com/] to host this blog, but after a long time using it I decided to switch to Amazon Web Services, and after couple months back again to Digital Ocean [https://www.digitalocean.com/] and finally, this blog is hosted

Are you using Cusca theme?

Are you using Cusca theme?

Cusca theme was published on May, about 5 months ago I received some comments from you guys, and I thinking a big upgrade for the next version but November is a month with a lot of work in my job so I will try to do a little of time

Vlog #6: Lago de Coatepeque and Playa el Tunco

Vlog #6: Lago de Coatepeque and Playa el Tunco

Node.js not found on Linux enviroment

If you are getting the same error like me trying installing something with node, I will show you two solutions for this: /usr/bin/env: node: No such file or directory The problem is the system is looking for the wrong node.js executable ( /usr/bin/node) when probably you

Vlog #5: First Videocon in El Salvador

Vlog #5: First Videocon in El Salvador

The Videocon is a video game conference, where gamers of different platforms and games participate to win one award. It was the first Videocon in El Salvador, you can get more information about this event on the facebook page: Videocon El Salvador [https://www.facebook.com/Videocon-El-Salvador-295600470890936/]