I am working on a bigger system monitoring application and one of things I had to create for this project, it’s a just published tcp port checker / scanner library for nodejs.
This little utility allows you to:
- check if a given port is being used
- get the first available port from a given range (useful [...]

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An old Cherokee is teaching his grandson about life. “A fight is going on inside me,” he said to the boy.
“It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One is evil - he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego.” He continued, [...]

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So many projects (and there is also shame on me) suffer from delays when publishing. Amongst different problems that may cause it (bad project definition, changed specifications, previously unknown conditions and so on…) there is one that has probably killed more than one good project.
I am talking about “over-polishing”.
It happens when you secretly develop your [...]

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Sometimes I find myself doing some simple html project. Usually, it could be seen right from the hd using file://, but there are some stuff, that doesn’t necesarily work this way.
Instead of creating a new apache account etc. etc.. I found this simple line to create a http static server that server files from the [...]

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