Category: programming-featured
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02-Mar-2018 Roanoke Tech Resources. Now on GitHub.In 2010 I was living in Roanoke Virginia. I felt frustrated by the lack of a central place to go to see what was happening with local technology users groups – there was great stuff happening on a regular basis associated with Virginia Tech, and with the local .NET group but there was no single…
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01-Mar-2018 “Leverage browser caching”I was looking at Google Pagespeed Insights results today for my website today. And I got this feedback: Leverage browser caching Setting an expiry date or a maximum age in the HTTP headers for static resources instructs the browser to load previously downloaded resources from local disk rather than over the network. Leverage browser caching…
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27-Feb-2018 Color the SmileyOver the years I have made a lot of little web experiments and geegaws. I’ve made hangman games and drawing programs and random text generators. At one place I worked I helped make a thing that would turn an uploaded photo of a face into a Terminator face! I’ve made so many of these kind…
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26-Feb-2018 I blogged for 17 years and all I got were these lousy Markov chains.In which I turn my experiments with turning written text into Markovify-generated sentences into a cool Twitter bot.
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23-Feb-2018 Markov Chains are hilarious.I’ve wanted to make Markov chain generated sentences based on this blog for a long while. Wednesday night, I did. It took me under an hour! Why have I avoided it thinking it’d be difficult? Probably I thought it’d take a long time and would be lame. NOT SO First, I exported the contents of…
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22-Feb-2018 Suspicious Activity: “An admin user with the username backup was created outside of WordPress”On 14 February 2018, WordFence alerted me to highly suspicious behavior. This is the format of the email I received from WordFence version 4.9.3: This email was sent from your website “[REDACTED BLOG NAME]” by the Wordfence plugin. Wordfence found the following new issues on “[REDACTED BLOG NAME]”. Alert generated at Wednesday 14th of February…
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21-Feb-2018 Blog Post Visualization + CodeI’ve been doing maintenance galore on this site. I have a hand-written theme and I’ve been doing things like returning the footer to a good shape and sweating the responsive details of it. I first wrote that code in 2010 but I’ve adapted it to be a bit better and now am using CSS Grid…
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09-Feb-2018 Random Notes on #lightningnow Tour / Trailhead / SalesforceOn January 29th and 30th I attended the Lighting Tour of Salesforce.com that was held here in San Diego. I had a lot of fun, and got a great sense that my skills in web development may have a great deal of carryover into working with and developing for Salesforce. Cutest stickers at @salesforce #lightningnow…
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27-Jan-2018 Ventcheck – a twitter bot I wrote in 2016Back in 2016 I attended a terrific session of the San Diego Code Kitchen at FAB LAB San Diego. It was really a lot of fun and in a few hours I was able to create an inscrutable twitter bot – @ventcheck. It was fun! I didn’t write about it here because… well… who blogged…
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07-Feb-2012 Richard Gate (and jQuery)Richard Gate is my brother-in-law. I’ve mentioned him once before. I put together a website for him in February 2007. I think it’s a great little site that does precisely what it needs to. It introduces you to an artist’s work. I worked with him this week to provide something interesting on the main richardgate.com…
