How to find a git repositories default branch name
It’s been about six months since the last update. We’ve mostly been camping, playing outside and generally enjoying the summer - although we have also squeezed in some gaming, here and there.
Favourite Games So Far
We spent almost all of our game time playing Legend of Zelda. It’s a towering achievement – a truly great game. I’m amazed that this thing is from 1986 – it doesn’t feel like it.
It’s also a great example of a different kind of co-op game. One where you play together by collaborating: discussing what to do & where to go next, how to tackle things, etc… We also took turns …
I wanted to add dark mode support to the default nginx “Welcome to nginx” page. This is about the simplest change I could choose to make - it’s a simple, backwards compatible, small additive change to one single index.html file. My initial version of this change looks like this, and is added to the files <style> element, in the <head> section:
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
body {
background-color: #363839;
color: #d1cec9;
}
a {
color: #c4c4ff;
}
}So, this is the process of getting that change from my brain, into the upstream nginx codebase.
cssmin is unmaintained & has a bug with complex :is selectors
Sometimes I want to have a just a tiny bit of CSS that’s unique, just for one page or post. I don’t want a whole stylesheet, or to have to add this to my site-wide theme, just for one post – I want a simple way to add it in the post itself.
This is how I did it:
You can use the new CSS :is selector to write complex CSS selectors in a much more compact way
They will dig up your garden to get them.
How to allow python (or anything else) to listen/bind to port 80 without being root
Ninja is a surprisingly nice build system for tiny projects. That's more or less the opposite of what it's designed for, but it works really well for tiny things.
The content-type guessing done by AWS CLI is based on the mimetype definitions available on your system. You can improve the mimetype guessing by updating these definitions.