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Mac OS – Media buttons not working with Spotify

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Home Assistant

How to update Sonoff Zigbee 3.0 (ZBDongle-P) USB firmware using a Mac

In this tutorial we’ll be flashing the ZBDongle-P with the latest coordinator firmware — Without having to open the case. We’ll walk you through the steps to upgrade the firmware on your Sonoff…

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Personal

How long do you need to fast? Fat loss / Autophagy

Choosing how long you want to do you fast for can be quite challenging. In order to figure this out you need to know your top priority, it can be ether one of…

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Personal

I fasted for 5 days; Here’s what happened

TLDR: Lost 4,2kg in 5 days without eating, regained 1,8kg 3 days after — losing a little over 2kg For the last couple of weeks I’ve been doing intermittent fasting (IF), slowly decreasing…

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Laravel

Change user agent with the Laravel HTTP Client

In pull request #34611 the undocumented `withUserAgent` method has been added to the Laravel HTTP Client. It’s really easy to use. This has been released in Laravel v8.8.0. If you’re using a Laravel…

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Add Statamic to an existing Laravel app
Laravel

Add Statamic to an existing Laravel app – and let Statamic use its own authentication

We’re gonna install Statamic to use as a CMS into our existing Laravel application. By default Statamic will use the same authentication as the existing application, but we want to use the built in Statamic authentication and not the current application’s authentication.

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Development

Replace querySelector with Alpine.js x-show

I challenged myself to make a screencast, to keep the barrier minimal I decided to start with something small. Here’s my video on how to replace document.querySelector with Alpine.js x-show. Please let me know any feedback…

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How to: Gmail with custom domain – for FREE

TLDR: Make/use existing gmail account, setup a forwarder somehow for your custom domain, send email via the gmail smtp. Dennis 1. Make a gmail account. Just make a new gmail account or use…

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Development

How to get $5000 in AWS credits without breaking the bank

Every business needs hosting right? There are a couple of ways to use the AWS Activate program to get cheap credits. First of all, if you’re a solo founder or a bootstrapped you’re…

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Development

Free Airtable credits and Bubble Professional

Via the magic of the internet I stumbled upon this new website called Secret. You can sign up for free and get acces to some really amazing deals for software you can use to build your business!

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