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How to Disable beforeunload Event Listeners

Last updated on August 4, 2022 by Sal Ferrarello

I was doing some troubleshooting and wanted to disable the “beforeunload” event listeners on a page. This is how I accomplished it with the Chrome browser.

Filed Under: Computing, Dev Tips, Programming, Solution Tagged With: Chrome, JavaScript

Revert Merge Commit

Last updated on May 9, 2022 by Sal Ferrarello

Typically a Git commit has exactly one parent, however a Git merge commit has two parents. The problem this creates with Git revert, is it is unclear which commit we want to revert to.

Filed Under: Computing, Dev Tips, Solution Tagged With: Git, revert

Always Bring Your Pull Requests Up to Date

Last updated on April 26, 2022 by Sal Ferrarello

A Pull Request (PR) should always be up to date with the branch into which it is being merged. Another way of saying this is you should be able to merge your PR as a fast-forward merge (even if you decide not to do a fast-forward merge). In this post we’ll look at how a safe looking PR that is out of date can be catastrophic to merge.

Filed Under: Computing, Dev Tips, Programming, Recommendations Tagged With: Git

Quickly Delete Large Directory from the Command line

Last updated on April 23, 2022 by Sal Ferrarello

When deleting a large directory from the command line, it can take a frustratingly long time for the task to complete. This is a trick I use to speed things up.

Filed Under: Computing, Dev Tips, Solution Tagged With: command line

WordPress Gutenberg Trigger Autosave

Last updated on April 25, 2022 by Sal Ferrarello

Recently, I was documenting the steps to reproduce a certain bug and the bug required the presence of an autosave (along with the “There is an autosave of this post that is more recent than the version below.” message). Rather than wait for an autosave to occur naturally, I wanted to speed things up and manually trigger one. This is the command I use to do that.

Filed Under: Dev Tips, Solution Tagged With: Gutenberg, JavaScript, WordPress

Intermediate Git

Last updated on March 27, 2022 by Sal Ferrarello

I’ve been using Git for a number of years. When I was a Git beginner, I followed some prescribed steps and things worked – most of the time. This seems to be a pretty common experience for people starting out with Git. The magical part is when I started to understand Git, when I went from beginner to intermediate. These are some blog posts and videos that would have helped me with that transition.

Filed Under: Dev Tips, Recommendations Tagged With: Git

JavaScript Unix Timestamp from String in Time Zone

Last updated on February 27, 2022 by Sal Ferrarello

Given a string like “2022-01-01 13:00:00”, which represents a time in the “Europe/Paris” timezone, how can we get the corresponding Unix Timestamp in JavaScript? This problem is sufficiently complex that in my opinion leveraging a third-party library is the best solution.

Filed Under: Dev Tips, Programming, Solution Tagged With: DateTime, JavaScript, time zone

Local by Flywheel from Sub-Directory

Last updated on February 27, 2022 by Sal Ferrarello

I was recently working on a project that loaded WordPress from a sub-directory. The result of which is if I cloned the project into the “public” directory, the WordPress files and directories were one level deeper (in “public/wordpress”).

Filed Under: Dev Tips, Solution, Uncategorized Tagged With: Local by Flywheel, nginx

WordPress Gutenberg Notice in JavaScript

Last updated on February 20, 2022 by Sal Ferrarello

You can display four types of notices in the WordPress Block Editor (a.k.a. Gutenberg) using JavaScript: error, warning, info, and success. This blog post contains an example of each.

Filed Under: Dev Tips, Programming Tagged With: Gutenberg, JavaScript, WordPress

Disable Core WordPress Update Notice

Last updated on February 7, 2022 by Sal Ferrarello

When working on projects, I often want to strictly control the version of WordPress that is running. However sometimes one of the other administrators on the site sees the “WordPress 5.9 is available! Please update now.” message and clicks it, thereby prematurely updating to a newer version of WordPress core. This notice can be disabled.

Filed Under: Dev Tips, Programming, Solution Tagged With: WordPress, WordPress Core

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