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NPM 8.5.0 is broken with WSL2 Ubuntu 20.02

2022-04-15 by raleigh

Well this one is baffling. I’ve got a new laptop and I’m trying to install Expo, a javascript React Native framework. After getting the LTS version of Node with NVM (Node Version Manager) – I found that the default Expo install command would freeze after a few seconds. Running it verbose offered little extra information. … Read more

Categories IT, Linux Tags JS, Node, Ubuntu, Windows, WSL Leave a comment

Windows 10 Upgrade Hiccup – VirtualBox Ubuntu Server Lockout

2020-10-19 by raleigh
Raleigh's Desktop

I finally bit the bullet to level up from Windows 8.1 to 10, and did an in-place OS upgrade. So far not too bad. For reference, I still was able to activate Windows 10 automatically for free in Oct 2020. Totally expected I was going to have to spring for a new key, but I … Read more

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Zsh function keys binding for commands

2017-05-01 by raleigh

Get a little faster every day. Today I got sick of autocompleting the node npm commands I sometimes use hundreds of times a day. No idea why I put up with that for so long. So I wanted to use the function keys like in an IDE like eclipse so I can build and run … Read more

Categories Linux Tags Node.js, SSH, Zsh Leave a comment

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