How to upgrade your Kindle while keeping your existing notes, bookmarks and reading progress

For many years I’ve been using a Kindle Touch as my primary device to read books and long-form web content. I also employ a strict regimen to capture my learnings via my BookTracker app. Recently, I upgraded to a Kindle Paperwhite for its better screen resolution and warm backlight. I thought that the upgrade would be as seamless as that of a phone’s, and I could easily migrate all my notes and reading progress over....

September 5, 2022 · 8 min · 1671 words · Tiffena Kou

Integrate Firebase CLI & Hugo with VS Code for a seamless development environment in Windows

In my blog post about deploying a Hugo site to Firebase hosting, I mentioned the inconvenience of jumping out of Visual Studio Code to use the Firebase CLI for project creation, maintenance and deployment. I’ve finally resolved this issue so that my workflow can now be kept 100% inside VS Code. My current workflow Here’s my current workflow on a Windows machine. I author my blog (via markdown and javascript/html files) in VS Code, then use Hugo to stage to localhost and generate static files for the site....

June 22, 2022 · 5 min · 965 words · Tiffena Kou