These days quite a lot of projects use the really nice key-value database called LevelDB. Sometimes you might need to compile LevelDB for whatever reason — of which I would not list here for the sake of my health. 😅 But we were surprised that LevelDB codebase only compiles a static lib, and not a shared one. Then, totally by chance, we found out in this issue how to do it — saving us tons of time.

Sometimes we need to fetch some Maven central information from the command line. Like, latest version, all recent versions for a particular artifact, and so on. This is particularly useful for automated builds and various reports. We were not aware of this, and actually got positively surprised, but Maven Central…

Ok, imagine that you use Mac and want to create virtual machines (not containers!) in a Linux server. But, aren't you tired to do that manually, over the command line (a.k.a., SSH)? Well, maybe not… or maybe yes... 🤔 😃 After years of typing commands in virsh I've got to…

In the omnisharp-vscode wiki, it says: When you install the C# extension for the first time it will try to download its dependencies. It needs to do this because the C# extension uses a number of platform-dependent files. …