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I’m using draw.io to create diagrams or as part of workshops to visualize ideas or organize information. I almost never print any of the diagrams I’m creating, but the app defaults to a page view. I find that I naturally gravitate to trying to fit things within the default page size and get a bit irritated when pages are automatically added or removed depending on where I move stuff. Fortunately, page view can be disabled in the diagram options by unchecking the checkbox in the diagram menu, or via the View menu. Since I do that for pretty much every diagram, I wondered if there’s a better way. Changing the default so that new files start with the whole canvas available is not that difficult once you find the right configuration options. Getting there took me a bit, so I’m writing this quick guide for you (and future me). ...

I’ve been writing a lot in VS Code over the last weeks to prepare a Python course for work. After the 1000th time creating a Python code block in Markdown, I thought: There must be an easier way to do this - and there is: VS Code Snippets. In this article I teach you how to configure your own.

This article is an introduction to Terminalizer which allows you to record what’s going on in your terminal and convert this recording to a gif.