I've talked about how I love a nice pretty prompt in my Windows Terminal and made videos showing in detail how to do it. I've also worked with my buddy TooTallNate to put my real-time blood sugar into a bash or PowerShell prompt, but this was back in 2017. Now that I'm "Team OhMyPosh" I have been meaning to write a Nightscout "segment" for my prompt. Nightscout is an open source self-hosted (there are commercial hosts also like T1Pal) website and API for remote display of real-time and near-real-time glucose readings for Diabetics like myself. Since my body has an active REST API where I can just do an HTTP GET (via curl or whatever) and see my blood sugar, it clearly belongs in a place of honor, just like my current Git Branch! Oh My Posh supports configurable "segments" and now there's a beta (still needs mmol and stale readings support) Nightscout segment that you can setup in just a few minutes! This prompt works in ANY shell on ANY os! You can do this in zsh, PowerShell, Bash, whatever makes you happy. Here is a YouTube of Jan from OhMyPosh and I coding the segment LIVE in Go. If you have an existing OhMyPosh json config, you can just add another segment like this. Make sure your Nightscout URL includes a secure Token or is public (up to you). Note also that I setup "if/then" rules in my background_templates. These are optional and up to you to change to your taste. I set my background colors to red, yellow, green depending on sugar numbers. I also have a foreground template that is not really used, as you can see it always evaluates to black #000, but it shows you how you could set it to white text on a darker background if you wanted. { "type": "nightscout", "style": "diamond", "foreground": "#ffffff", "background": "#ff0000", "background_templates": [ "{{ if gt .Sgv 150 }}#FFFF00{{ end }}", "{{ if lt .Sgv 60 }}#FF0000{{ end }}", "#00FF00" ], "foreground_templates": [ "{{ if gt .Sgv 150 }}#000000{{ end }}", "{{ if lt .Sgv 60 }}#000000{{ end }}", "#000000" ], "leading_diamond": "?", "trailing_diamond": "uE0B0", "properties": { "url": "https://YOURNIGHTSCOUTAPP.herokuapp.com/api/v1/entries.json?count=1&token=APITOKENFROMYOURADMIN", "http_timeout": 1500, "template": "? {{.Sgv}}{{.TrendIcon}}" }}, By default we will only go out and hit your Nightscout instance every 5 min, only when the prompt is repainted, and we'll only wait 1500ms before giving up. You can set that "http_timeout" (how long before we give up) if you feel this slows you down. It'll be cached for 5 min so it's unlikely to b something you'll notice. The benefit of this new OhMyPosh segment over the previous solution is that it requires no additional services/chron jobs and can be setup extremely quickly. Note also that you can customize your template with NerdFonts. I've included a tiny syringe! Next I'll hope to improve the segment with mmol support as well as strikeout style for "stale" (over 15 min old) results. You're also welcome to help out by watching our YouTube and submitting a PR! Sponsor: Make login Auth0's problem. Not yours. Provide the convenient login features your customers want, like social login, multi-factor authentication, single sign-on, passwordless, and more. Get started for free.(C) 2021 Scott Hanselman. All rights reserved.     

Matt Trask and Ben Edmunds are joined by Adam Culp to discuss the recent changes with Zend (the company), Zend (the framework), and the transition from Zend Framework to Laminas Framework. Links Laminas Nexmo Releated Stuff Beachcasts Video on Hypermedia Video on automating Hyperme...

Bloggers like us want to be noticed. We want our posts to be read by as many people as possible. After we’ve written an article, we shoot it through all social media channels, hoping for feedback. But it’s not always the way we’d like it to be. Have you ever thought about what the best time to post on social media is? The time where you’ll reach the largest possible amount of people with your posts? You should do that. Today, blogging is not that easy anymore. There is way too much competition. Thus, it has become difficult to build an audience. Ten years ago, this was significantly easier. Growing a blog was done a lot faster. To offset the small disadvantage, that today you have to be perceived in a completely different way, there are a couple of tricks, however. One of them is to always feed your social media accounts at the right time. The Best Times to Post on Social Media The infographic is not from this year. However, as far as we know, people’s behaviour has not changed. The content is still up to date. It deals with Facebook and Twitter, the two most popular networks. […]

Let's face facts, designers have it tough. We are constantly being challenged with project deadlines, that are always ticking down and getting closer. We often seem to deal with as much negative feedback as positive feedback, and we are always trying to reinvent our design style, so we don't get stuck in a specific direction....

Icons, although the tiniest constituents of the interface, can make the whole difference. They improve projects in terms of intuitive and handy exploration, enrich the user experience, give zest to aesthetics, finish off the theme and create a specific visual language. Much like UI kits that are quite popular among the designers, collections of free icons are also the stuff that creatives constantly chase for. Today we have gathered a huge list of icon packs that were the most sought-after in 2015. Some of them are small semi-flat illustrations, some of them elegant line style glyphs, others just crisp tiny shapes. Nevertheless, since Flat style paired with Material Design is considered to be the ultimate trend they will come in handy this year for sure. Simple Icons Creator: Dan Leech License: Free Art License. Colored Line Icons (SVG, PNG) Creator: Shock Family License: Free for personal and commercial use. Icons Templates Creator: heeyeun License: Declared as Free, no proper license given. Google – Material icons for Sketch Creator: Luis Silva License: Declared as Free, no proper license given. Universal Themes Vector Icon Set (100 Icons, SVG) Creator: Freepik License: Free for personal and commercial use. Animaticons Creator: animaticons License: Free for personal or commercial […]* You might also be interested in the following articlesDouble Tap, Check, Swipe: 25 Free Gesture Icons Packs for Your Mobile…Abandon Skeuomorphism with these 30 Free Icon Sets in Flat DesignLate-breaking: 29 Free Vibrant Flat UI PacksQuick, Not Dirty: 30 Free Wireframe Style UIs, Mockups and TemplatesThe Right Mood #1: Free Christmas Icons, Patterns and Mockups 201429 Great Free Business Card PSD Templates: The Ace up Your Sleeve

The Delicious Brains blog has kicked off a new series of posts walking you through the deployment of a WordPress site with automated (and repeatable) deployments. Welcome to the first post in a workflow series on deploying WordPress. In this series, we're going to look at how you can set up automated deployments for your WordPress site in a range of different ways. They start off by answering the question of "why" for automated deployments. They make the point that automated deployments can help reduce the potential for human error, increase the reliability of the deployments and have many more benefits. Next they start in on the preparation work, helping you get several prerequisites set up before getting to the deployment process: Setting up the site on an accessible Git repository and having plugins/dependencies managed by Composer Deploying configuration files Disable FTP Access & File Editing Disable Auto Updates The post also includes a section covering the deployment of the database for your application and any other media you might have related to it (images, files, etc).

Every week is a learning week and this week I was reminded that viewport units are not all good to use. Also, choosing the right HTTP status code can be difficult and may not even be supported by the Apache version running on your server. I also learned how JavaScript error logging can be extended so that you can finally get easy-to-read and useful reports. As if that wasn't enough, I learned a lot about accessibility and progressive enhancement again, and discovered a slidedeck on how you can bypass CSP and why browsers can render elements with known boundaries as well as layout limitations incredibly faster than unknown. Are you ready? It's now your turn to learn all of this as well.The post Web Development Reading List #144: CSP Mistakes, JS Debugging And Failure Testing appeared first on Smashing Magazine.

In today’s Photoshop tutorial we’re going to have some fun creating an abstract piece of artwork that features the Pixel Sorting effect, which is a type of glitch art that’s usually generated by computer code, but we’ll be replicating the appearance with Photoshop’s built in filters. If you search for pixel sorting artwork on sites […] The post Video Tutorial: Abstract Pixel Sorting Effect in Photoshop appeared first on Spoon Graphics.

Focus on UX, amazingly, can still get sidelined on a project where tastes and opinions dominate. Short of attempting the impossible and appealing to everyone, satisfying project managers (or even... The post Fact or Opinion? Perfecting UX appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

The very best eCommerce websites share a few common characteristics. First, they are easy to use and navigate. After all, the more time it takes a shopper to find what... The post 8 Fascinating UI Concepts for eCommerce Websites appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.