Recently I was cleaning out my GMail mailbox. Yes, yes I know they give you lots of space and you can even buy more if you need it, but I kind of wanted to leave fewer old emails hanging around. I don’t know, we’ll call it “spring cleaning”. Though not all old emails are useless, some of them I actually wanted to keep and archive offline. For the most part things went smoothly, I made good use of Google Takeout service by downloading labeled emails as sepparate chunks.

I’ve been playing around with Golang for a few months now and I have to conclude that it is indeed a practical, well thought out language that is also fun to use. If you haven’t heard about or tried it yet, head over to tour.golang.org right now. There you can try the language right inside your browser, hassle free, no installation required. Though there’s something compelling about compiling things on your own machine.

Here’s a really quick tip. If you’re running Windows and are using PuTTY to manage your unix servers, chances are you have a lot of saved sessions i.e. information on how to connect to your server, what font type and size to use, etc. And if you ever tried copying them to another machine you noticed that PuTTY doesn’t have a user-friendly export/import sessions button. But there’s a way to perform a saved sessions export manually.

All modern browsers nowadays have integrated development tools among which there’s a JavaScript console where you can type in some JavaScript and test your ideas, debug your code or see output from your script’s previous events. But the console is capable of so much more. Well, actually IE’s console is somewhat more limited than others, but the rest of them are pretty cool. To get an idea of the possibilities visit the chrome developer tips and tricks page to learn more.