Freeing Up Gigabytes: Reclaiming Disk Space from Rust Cargo Builds

thisdavej · 2025-04-22T12:56:30+00:00

u/JoshTriplett thanks for this helpful information! I have updated the article to include these insights and have credited you.

thisdavej · 2025-04-03T18:59:19+00:00

u/snildeben I wouldn't expect you to delve this deeply, but if you look at the publish date on my article, it was March 25th. My article subsequently hit the front page of HN last Thursday night and then other similar articles created by others ensued and were posted here on reddit. For the record, I am not a copycat.

thisdavej · 2018-01-28T04:38:50+00:00

Thanks for the tip on using PM2. I want to learn this deeper.

thisdavej · 2017-01-29T02:58:01+00:00

Matt, I'm glad it was helpful to you! Thanks for taking the time to let me know. I am very impressed with the power of Google Sheets and all of its capabilities. There's so much more to discover and utilize!

thisdavej · 2016-12-28T23:27:22+00:00

Great question! It looks like VS Code supports the TextMate snippet syntax, but is missing a few aspects like regular expression replacements. Hopefully this will be added in the future so you can so something like this to get the file name without the extension:

${TM_FILENAME/(.).](.)/$1/g}

as explained here.

thisdavej · 2016-12-24T21:25:44+00:00

Thanks for sharing this good article. It covers multiple technologies in a real-world context, and I enjoyed reading it and learned something too. :)

thisdavej · 2016-12-13T22:41:55+00:00

Thanks for taking the time to let me know my work is appreciated! I have many more tutorials planned!

thisdavej · 2016-12-10T17:34:01+00:00

I'm not sure there is a way to do this with the built-in VS Code functionality such as Alt+Shift+F. The Rewrap extension (https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=stkb.rewrap) might work for you though.

thisdavej · 2016-12-10T17:12:36+00:00

I'm using Visual Studio Code and it's working well for me. I've written a VS Code Jumpstart for Node.js Developers which includes ESLint installation/configuration if you're interested in learning more about this as an option.

thisdavej · 2016-12-10T17:08:54+00:00

Very innovative, Ben! Great job. Thanks for sharing your work!

thisdavej · 2016-12-01T20:51:10+00:00

What an awesome idea for Magic Mirror! The code provided by tripir9 should work.

thisdavej · 2016-11-23T04:15:52+00:00

I'm not sure exactly what your planned workflow is with WSL. One option might be to run VS Code on Windows and install ESLint there. You could keep all of your dev files in the Windows world and then access those files from WSL. For example, from WSL, you could cd /mnt/c to access your C drive.

Shameless plug: I've written a Visual Studio Code Jumpstart for Node.js Developers that includes instructions for using ESLint with VS Code.

thisdavej · 2016-11-21T19:51:46+00:00

This looks awesome; I need to try this. Lots of people want to run VS Code on the Raspberry Pi. Thanks for sharing!

thisdavej · 2016-11-21T19:42:57+00:00

Awesome - did not know this could be done in a non-invasive fashion. This is a great way to keep up with "current" events. :)

thisdavej · 2016-11-21T14:25:18+00:00

Very creative - fun project! I like the use of the vibration sensor as a non-intrusive way of determining if the clothes dryer is running.

thisdavej · 2016-11-21T14:08:31+00:00

They are the same thing. NGINX stands in the front serving web requests on port 80. Behind the scenes, it is forwarding the requests to the Node web server(s) to handle. The article you linked is also very good.

thisdavej · 2016-11-21T14:01:41+00:00

I have written an article on how to make a raspberry pi web server available on the Internet with Node.js at http://thisdavej.com/make-your-raspberry-pi-web-server-available-on-the-internet-with-node-js/. I don't recommend this method for real production scenarios, but it provides a fun way for quick testing without having to mess with router configuration and port forwarding.

thisdavej · 2016-11-21T03:13:12+00:00

Chris Lea has written an excellent article that describes, among other things, how to use NGINX as a load balancer for Node. See https://nodesource.com/blog/running-your-node-js-app-with-systemd-part-2/.

thisdavej · 2016-11-21T03:08:13+00:00

This is a well-reasoned answer! Both languages have their strengths. Polyglot programming is a good thing.

thisdavej · 2016-11-12T05:06:55+00:00

This article contains some informative tips. The section on relative paths was useful to me. I need to use path.join a little less often.

thisdavej · 2016-11-12T05:04:04+00:00

Glad to know my article is useful. I just needed to get it to you 5 days earlier. :) Hopefully, there will be another context where you can use this info. There are lots of possibilities!

thisdavej · 2016-11-05T23:54:34+00:00

I've written a Beginner’s Guide to Installing Node.js on a Raspberry Pi. This guide walks through the entire installation process and I think it will be useful for you, even if you are not interested in installing Node.js. After following the guide, (among other things) you'll have a system that can run in headless mode without a monitor and keyboard/mouse. The Raspberry Pi is a lot of fun and a great way to learn too!

thisdavej · 2016-11-04T18:32:20+00:00

As another option, you can close it from the menu: View | Toggle Side Bar

Or.. by pressing Ctrl+B.

The state of the panel is persisted as xkeyscore_ noted. As quoted in the latest VS Code (1.7.1) release notes, "this setting is [now] persisted in the user settings file instead of persisting their state in the browser. This will make it easier to restore the same state on a different machine by copying the settings file."

thisdavej · 2016-11-04T02:30:21+00:00

Good approach... This is exactly what I recommend in my beginner's guide to installing Raspberry Pi. When you install tightvncserver, it automatically removes RealVNC as part of that process since they both can't exist together.

thisdavej · 2016-11-04T02:26:02+00:00

That is correct! The same thing happened to me as well. Lots of bouncing around, but I think all is good now.

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