A few years back, to make my site more festive for Hallowe'en, I made a script …
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Using pipes to augment IO of command with bash script
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bash
math
pipes
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script
shell
I like the interactive mode of the bc command line calculator because it is ubi…
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git
script
It is common to use git tags to manage software version numbers. Such tags are…
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backup
git
github
script
For some time, I've been wanting to set up a backup for my Github repos. Techn…
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rsync
script
I use rsync for backups, site deployments, and other purposes where I need to s…
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server
web
I've been playing with JS lately, including ES modules and building with Rollup…
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problem
One of Cogneato's clients noticed that Recaptcha wasn't working on their site. …
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backup
database
mysql
script
I made a simple bash backup script for the newer MySQL database servers at Cogn…
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forms
javascript
solution
I come across the situation occasionally where I am trying to submit a form pro…
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pdf
script
shell
I recently found myself needing to replace some text in a PDF for confidentiali…
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animation
canvas
javascript
site
snow
I finally built a snow animation for my site to celebrate Christmas. I had use…
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javascript
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module
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web
I played with ES modules, rollup, and webpack on my site for the first time ove…
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backup
rsync
script
I have been using rsync for backup and other things for a long time. It has a …
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browser
javascript
style
support
Looks like an update to Opera Mini brought support for position: fixed at last …
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domains
permashortlinks
script
tld
I've been looking for a short domain to potentially use for permashortlinks. F…
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compression
curl
gzip
mod_deflate
savings
script
Gzip compression is almost universally recommended as a basic step to improving…
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cache
javascript
serviceworkers
I started playing with service workers as a client side cache manager a bit ton…
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analytics
script
upgrade
web
I don't really monitor analytics for my personal sites that often besides for m…
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development
easteregg
javascript
web
What web developer's site is complete without an easter egg? Until today, mine…
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javascript
parallax
Recently, I made my first foray into the popular parallax on websites fad. My …
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library
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project
I've decided to take my JavaScript class system out of my more general JavaScri…
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responsive
I've been doing quite a few responsive sites since I first started into them. …
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loading
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tmlib
I've recently been working on reorganizing, cleaning up, and improving my javas…
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javascript
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namespace
It is a good practice to not pollute the global "namespace" (ie windo…
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jqueryui
JQuery UI Draggable and Droppable make it fairly easy to implement dragondrop o…
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javascript
jquery
queue
jQuery makes it fairly easy to animate DOM elements. Animating a single-step an…
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practices
It has been quite some time since I've posted anything, but I certainly haven't…
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javascript
menu
My boss at work doesn't like the top-level items that have submenus in our two-…
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objects
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I've been doing my JavaScript coding directly in objects. Before I had been doi…
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piwik
statistics
xhtml5
I've been using Piwik recently for my site analytic purposes. I added it to my…
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javascript
jquery
reflection
The design of the gallery portion of the David Hawkins site I'm working on at C…
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timeouts
I recently discussed two issues with closures in Javascript. I continued to im…
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functions
javascript
Closures are used quite frequently in Javascript for tasks such as adding event…
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ie
javascript
problem
stearns
style
We've had to do a bit of work to get our site working properly in IE, mostly ve…
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javascript
I've been messing around with Javascript a bit lately, creating an AJAX object …
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