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GCP Compute Engine VM Instances

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GCP

GCP c2 and c3 VMs are good choices according to performance per price. It's even cheaper than customized VM types with reduced memories! GCP c2 VMs are compute optimized and …

The ripgrep Command Is a Better Alternative to the find Command

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Installation on Debian/Ubuntu Based Linux Distributions

wajig install ripgrep

Installation on macOS

brew install ripgrep

List Files

There are 2 ways to list files using ripgrep. The first way is file name (globbing pattern) based and the second way is file content (regex pattern) based.

Tips on Google Firebase Studio

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Tips and Traps

  1. You can ask for help on Firebase Studio in the community .

  2. Search for dev.nix on GitHub to see others' configurations for Firebase Studio.

Trouble Shooting

IDEs With AI Coding Assists

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AI Code Assistant for IDEs

  1. Google Gemini

    • Built-in for Firebase Studio

  2. GitHub Copilot

    • Visual Studio Code
    • Visual Studio
    • command-line

  3. Amazon Q Developer

    • Visual Studio Code
    • Visual Studio
    • Jet Brains
    • command-line

IDEs …