Correct Google search country via VPN

While using the 4G/LTE technology as my primary internet connection for over four years now proved good enough compared to any kind of cable connection, there was a one major challenge that I had hard times overcoming for some quite time. The thing is, most telecom providers do n…

Fix color code data in fzf neovim

Some time ago I wrote how I had a a problem with color codes prepended into formatted files while using Neovim with Prettier. In the post I mentioned that I was able to solve the problem at hand. However, I had one other similar problem still present in my setup after migration f…

PHP test watcher for MacOS

I was successfully able to use my previous Laravel test watcher for a very long time, while I was on Linux. But now on Mac, it does not work, as mac does not support inotifywait. Mac does however support similar thing, called fswatch, install via Brew: brew install fswatch Howev…

Downgrade package in brew

There are numerous guides for downgrading a Brew package but somehow, none that I tried I found to be particularly helpful, let alone working and straightforward. Thus I mixed and matched them together to build Yet another brew downgrade package guide™, that at least works for my…

Install pynvim via Homebrew

I decided to write down a bit of details about how I was able to install python requirements for neovim on Mac M3, because as it turns out, it is not as straightforward as doing it on Arch. But before we jump straight into action, a little bit background. When you start nvim and …

Fix ANSI data in nvim execute

After migrating my dotfiles over to Mac M3 I stumbled into roadblock issue for my neovim setup. Every time I saved a PHP file, a lot of garbled data got prepended at the beginning of said file. If you remember so far back, my setup uses prettier for formatting everything, mostly …

Bitwarden backup GitHub Action

Previously, I made my first GitHub Action backup script, which you can read about in a previous post and it was a success from my point of view. I had these critical goals in mind for such a script: almost maintenance free securely stored credentials automatic basically free I …