Sometimes it happens that Vim freezes / gets stuck / doesn’t react and you might wonder what is going on. Recently, I figured out that this happens for me when I accidentally pressed Ctrl + S. It turns out that this is an old legacy features back from the slow days of computing where ressources were really scarce and you sometimes wanted to freeze the output of one program to help with your ressources.

Hello Phaser.io (version 3) Phaser is a JavaScript library which makes it super easy for you to build games. It builds on top of WebGL, but if your browser doesn’t support that, falls back to canvas support. In this quick post, I will show you how to get up and running with your first game in literally 5 minutes (if you take mine as a starter). Note that I use the new version 3 while many tutorials and example games are written in version 2.

As a developer you gotta love Vim! It is easily available on almost any server you login to. Most of the times, it will already be installed. You can customize it to your needs, but you should be comfortable with its basic functionalities as you don’t want to tweak it on every server. I thus like to customize it a little bit, but try to stick close to the default. But the best thing about Vim is that after some time learning it, it is so much faster and easier to edit text than any other editor.

So, we all regularly create backups of important data, right? Right. Well, at least I hope you do. For your personal data as well as any company data you are dealing with. It is fairly easy and straightforward to create e.g. a MySQL backup on a server, zip it up and always keep the last 10 days as copies. However, what happens in case your whole server’s disks have an unrecoverable crash?