After finding a solution for my png files (see here) I was also looking for jpeg and found mozjpeg which is available via brew – like imagemagick and convert. For jpeg files I came up with the following command for optimisation: To use cjpeg from mozjpeg I changed my PATH variable so that mozjpeg comes […]
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I was looking for a method to optimise my png files for the web and came up with the following command: Convert is a simple but very mighty imagemagick command.
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Sometimes, especially during debugging, it would be helpful to mark single lines in the log in colours. There is a simple way to achieve this with Spring Boot and logback. With this dependency in place you can extend your logger to achieve this. Here a sample setup: This allows you to mark a resource in
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Spring Boot contains a quite nice configuration for logback with color coding and good readability. But it lacks logging MDC (Mapped Diagnostic Context) content. I tried around and found a way to append MDC to every logged line by setting the console pattern in my application.properties/yml under logging.pattern.console to Without any MDC set this adds
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On macs you can open multiple projects in tabs instead of single windows with IntelliJ thanks to an OS functionality. Set the System Preferences > General > Prefer tabs to always. Then try to open multiple projects in IntelliJ. You will see them opening in tabs :) I haven’t found this functionality under Windows or
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The file list in projects gets quite long most of the time but most of those files aren’t really used on a daily base. The FoldableView plugin allows you to just hide these files behind a dropdown menu. So they’re still there and easily accessible if you need them but hidden during normal work. In
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It’s quite easy to mix up spring-boot-start-cache with 2nd level caching in hibernate. In this post I want to take down how to enable both and being able to run tests from within intellij and gradle (which isn’t the default if you just follow most tutorials). To have proper dependencies for this i added the
My latest IntelliJ installation didn’t come with a command line idea command so I wrote a short script and put it to /usr/local/bin/idea on my local machine. This will only work on a mac. If you’re facing the lack of the command as well you need to find the path to your idea.sh and put
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I’m a big fan of the IntelliJ .http/.rest files but only being able to run them from within the IDE was not very satisfying. So I was looking for a way to run them from the cli as well and found https://github.com/restcli/restcli. This project offers a cli tool named rest-cli that is able to run
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Recently I was wondering why my shell is taking so long to show a prompt and was able to track it to nvm – node version manager. The check which version to use as default takes quite long so I was looking for a solution that allows me to keep nvm functionality and have a
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