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This week I scratched a creative itch by creating a podcast. You can find it over on OnThisDay.show. For the show, I’m sharing historical tidbits each day. Using…
Earlier this week we went live with the redesign of a client’s home page. What made this project interesting is the client wanted their home page redesigned without…
How SkyGuide for iOS, a question posed at the perfect time, and the International Space Station coincided for a moment of serendipity… Since the early 1980’s, my parents…
I’ve started this year by getting back to early mornings in the office. That means up at five, grab a quick breakfast, and at my desk by five…
You’re probably familiar with Portrait mode first introduced on iPhone 7 Plus. It’s a combination of the phone’s camera and software working together to provide depth-of-field (DOF) in…
With WordPress 5.0 and the new Gutenberg editor being released December 6, 2018, there’s plenty of discussion about it on the web. Below I’m linking to several articles,…
One of my favorite developer/communicators, Wes Bos, has put together a two-part video series where he shows how he built a Node.js backend and a React frontend to…
WordPress 5.0 was released today, and with it comes the new Gutenberg editor. Coming from a developer’s perspective, I have a list of gripes about Gutenberg*, but controversy…
Last night my wife and I signed up for a healthcare plan via the ACA Marketplace. Prior to that, our health insurance had been provided by a grandfathered…
In the midst of working on some larger projects, during the past couple of days I’ve enjoyed working on two unexpected “quick hitters”. This past Friday, a long…
This is an old trick, but as my clients ask me about it all the time, I’m providing the following instructions on how to add a new sending…
Ingredients 2½ teaspoons of loose leaf jasmine tea (4 bags) 2 cups hot water (195ºF/90ºC) 2 teaspoons sugar or 2 tablespoons of honey 2 cups cold water Directions…
After getting our orders wrong for months, I helped our local Dunkin’ fix a nationwide problem with their new ordering system My wife and I like our Dunkin’…
So, let’s say you’ve built out your new WordPress site. It’s looking like you want it, and you’ve got your content search engine optimized. Then someone mentions you…
Here’s a quick rundown of the new features coming to your Apple devices as announced at today’s Apple WWDC 2018 Keynote: iOS 12 iOS 12 will be available…
I’ve learned the following about fennel in the past month: 1) It’s great on pizza, 2) fresh from the garden it tastes like licorice, and 3) it makes…
👋 02/20/2025 (15:40) – UpdateI’ve replaced SSHman with SSHconn (SSH Connections). It has several improvements over the script below, one of them being the fact that it’s a…
If something happened to your computer, would you still be able to access all your important files? If you answered, “No,” you need a backup solution. Allow me…
Biggest fear when I started as a freelance #webdev 17 years ago: my skillset stagnating. Without co-workers in an office setting, I was afraid I wouldn’t gain the…
In recent weeks I’ve discovered TypeRocket. It’s a WordPress coding framework that makes it easy to extend WordPress themes and plugins with your own custom UX, custom fields,…