With the purchase of my new iPhone, I now had a phone that was capable of wireless charging. Yes yes, I know that Android has had wireless charging for years. I honestly didn’t think it was t… | Continue reading
I needed to request an image from Amazon S3 using ajax so I could read the response metadata headers. At first this seemed like a simple task. The first issue I encountered was that S3 was blocking… | Continue reading
When managing multiple websites, apps, and extensions it is important to know when a site is down before your users have to alert you. Currently, I use UptimeRobot to monitor all my websites etc. I… | Continue reading
Running out of disk space on your Linux server and need to find the files taking up the most space? The du or Disk Utility command is a standard Linux command, used to check the information of disk… | Continue reading
With the release of iOS 12, Apple appears to have placed a 128 character limit on text replacement. At first, I thought this was a bug but it appears to be intentional. After some searching, I disc… | Continue reading
If you have ever tried to curl a website and it returns a bunch of unreadable characters? It is most likely a gzip/compressed response. Here is an example of a curl request to amazon.com which retu… | Continue reading
If you’re a blogger and not using Amazon affiliate links, you are missing out on a great extra source of income. Unlike ads, they do not affect your readers and allow them to find the items y… | Continue reading
Have you ever noticed that in macOs you cannot hold down a key for it to repeat? If you ever had to repetitively type the same characters over and over this can be frustrating. Strangely in Windows… | Continue reading
When building a dashboard using a Raspberry Pi, I wanted a way to schedule the tv to turn on/off automatically. Below are the steps using Consumer Electronics Control (CEC). | Continue reading
When working on a project with multiple developers it’s a good idea to always rebase when you pull. git pull –rebase But if you would like to rebase by default, you can add it to your g… | Continue reading
When accepting money online, it is important to be accurate. Just one cent off and your customers may lose trust in your application. That is why it is It is important to understand how Javascript… | Continue reading
With the preorder of my new iPhone Xs, I was faced with this question, “Will iPhone X cases work for the Xs?”. After some research, it appeared all cases for the iPhone X would work for… | Continue reading
Usually in a Unix/Linux terminal when you press tab it will autocomplete with several options and then it will list the options below for you to select. This is a great feature if you spend a lot o… | Continue reading
The short answer is YES! Be careful of saying I’ll create one later. “Today’s greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.” Woodrow Wilson Over the past few years of writing fo… | Continue reading
I’m a big fan of the weather icons from Dark sky called Skycons. They are animated and are easy to customize. I wanted to be able to use them in my Weather and WeatherTab extensions which are… | Continue reading
Keyboard shortcut to show and hide files for mac os finder | Continue reading
Url shorteners are great but they do have the risk of redirecting you to a site you may not want to visit. LinkUnshorten solves this issue by expanding short links to show you the final redirect URL. | Continue reading
A recent episode of Syntax, the podcast about web development from Wes Bos and Scott Tolinski, a tip was mentioned on speeding up key presses on macOS. I have always been annoyed at how slow the cu… | Continue reading
Wanted to share a quick tip on using keyboard shortcuts to activate chrome extensions. Up until now it never occurred to me to use a keyboard shortcut to activate an extension, but thanks to a user… | Continue reading