development posts

I use JavaScript modules to organize my JS code. I use Rollup.js to package an…

I finally moved from Sequel Pro to Sequel Ace. Sequel Pro hasn't been updated …

My cousin expressed interest in learning Magento and React JS. I know neither,…

In Mac OS Sonoma, browsers now require and the OS will ask for the "Local N…

Reading this weekend about a backdoor introduced to the open source xz project.…

I have moved to using VirtualBox VM's for my local web development. I use Vagr…

Apparently, an update to VirtualBox after version 6.1.26 limited the IP's usabl…

At some point recently, git init on my Mac has started to default to the branch…

I updated to Mac OS Monterey (12.5) finally. It went smoothly but I'm still wor…

PHP's defacto package manager, composer, has long required large amounts of mem…

I've been playing with JS lately, including ES modules and building with Rollup…

I made it through the first week of working from home during this virus-caused l…

I had a bit of a scare at work today, thinking that a site that accepts credit c…

This past week, my coworker and I had to deal with stressful problems with Cogn…

Kind of a late night working getting a messed up newsletter send back on track. …

GiveCamp is done. It was a success. We finished the chat app for Rubber City …

I am quite tired, so I will be brief. I didn't sleep well last night and am ho…

Day one of GiveCamp comes to a close. This year I'm working on a project for R…

GiveCamp fast approaches again. It's a mere 15 hours away. I'm basically prepa…

I played with ES modules, rollup, and webpack on my site for the first time ove…

Not sure if it was a recent Mac security update or a change with macports, but m…

I hit 5GB of cell data for the first time. That's how much I get per month befo…

To edit a git commit somewhere before the last one, use rebase with the commit …

Finished GiveCamp on Sunday. We continued working mostly on the site that will…

Today was mostly focused on setting up a clone of the client's site, setting up…

Looks like I may not be going to GiveCamp for the first time in a long time. I'…

Got back from StirTrek at around 11:45PM after leaving at 5:45AM. Only got 4 h…

Hey fellow website makers: If you meta refresh to a generic JS message URL for y…

Awesome: The 10k Apart voting is done and my entry ended up as one of 12 "…

The 10k apart contest closed last Friday. I got in a few updates to my entry t…

I went to see the art at Akron Art Prize yesterday. Today was the last day, so…

I got an update link for my 10k Apart project on the 22cnd. I already had some…

My 10k Apart entry is now officially deployed, meaning it made it onto the galle…

My 10k Apart entry was finally deployed and can be seen at its Azure URL, thoug…

I have spent much of my free time the last 12 days working on a project for the…

Figuring things out with this phonegap stuff. I will have to post some of what …

Struggling with PhoneGap: had trouble with geolocation on iOS wasn't able to ge…

Went to an Akron Code Club meetup this evening. Started working through code ex…

GiveCamp 2016 is over. Another successful year. The new Cleveland Garlic Fest…

Day 2 of GiveCamp is complete. My team is in quite good shape. We shed one me…

First day of GiveCamp 2016. Working on the Cleveland Garlic Festival website. …

I'm glad that Stir Trek has released videos of its 2016 talks, since I didn't l…

In playing with service workers, I set up a self-signed SSL certificate for my …

I got PHP 7 working locally finally. It worked for CLI just fine when I first i…

I've been working on the HTTP headers my site sends recently. I had been worki…

Progressive enhancement is a development strategy meant to provide older and / …

Sometimes I see sites with ASCII art hidden in comments in their source code. …

What web developer's site is complete without an easter egg? Until today, mine…

Symfony's HttpCache reverse proxy is a simple way to get caching of pages with …

For a while now I've been trying to write posts that draw people, such as solut…