Category: Programming

A big part of my work has to do with code. I’ve worked as system administrator – installing, patching, and configuring someone else’s code. I’ve worked as independent programmer, writing code on my own. I also programmed as part of the team. And on top of that, I worked as Team Leader and Project Manager, where I had to interact a lot with programmers. Programming world on its own is as huge as the universe. There is always something to learn. When I find something worthy or something that I understand enough to write about, I share it in this category.

ipstack – IP geolocation and database service

ipstack looks like an excellent IP geolocation service with a beautiful API.  If you haven’t used anything except for the MaxMind GeoIP, give it a try.  Their pricing is quite good, with 10,000 lookups per month going for free.

Gitea – self-hosted Git service

Gitea is yet another alternative to BitBucket, GitHub, and GitLab Cloud.  It’s an open source solution for self-hosting Git repositories.  It’s a fork of Gogs, written in Go, and is available under the MIT license.

Windows Notepad Finally Supports Unix, Mac OS Line Endings

This Slashdot story links to this blog post by Microsoft.  33 years later, one of the most annoying issues with the Notepad text editor is resolved:

Starting with the current Windows 10 Insider build, Notepad will support Unix/Linux line endings (LF), Macintosh line endings (CR), and Windows Line endings (CRLF) as usual. New files created within Notepad will use Windows line ending (CRLF) by default, but it will now be possible to view, edit, and print existing files, correctly maintaining the file’s current line ending format.

They shouldn’t have invented their own line ending in the first place.  But it’s great to see that they finally acknowledge the existence of the rest of the world.