I use a privately hosting Gitlab's instance for a bazillion projects; and have a lot of users from around the world. Unfortunately, I have ran into a long standing bug that has never been fixed in many years. It only crops up occasionally now, but it is still a major pain for everyone involved. Many,… Continue reading GitLab Verified Email account issue
Month: March 2020
NativeScript 6.5
NativeScript 6.40 has a couple cool new things; but better yet it fixes several issues that can will affect your users if you are using 6.3.x lets look at them... Some of the fixes include instability during android's fragment handling occurred in 6.32, which is worth while. A couple really awesome community PR's, and of… Continue reading NativeScript 6.5
VMWare - Shrinking disk size Macintosh/Linux
If you have a Macintosh or Linux based image; the tooling to shrink the hard drives is basically broken in the Gui (and/or, don't work). So to shrink these types of containers; the easiest method is to force the entire empty area to be Zero's, then defragment, and finally shrink all .. First thing we… Continue reading VMWare - Shrinking disk size Macintosh/Linux
NativeScript Fonter revisited again (using DuoTone FontAwesome)
In a prior post I discussed using fonts in NativeScript. This morning I saw an issue in the NativeScript github repo about how to use the Font Awesome Duotone fonts. Since I love puzzles, and I know the NativeScript font system fairly well, and I also own a subscription to the commercial Font Awesome --… Continue reading NativeScript Fonter revisited again (using DuoTone FontAwesome)