Category: programming-featured

• 23-Apr-2018

  
  SmugMug and Flickr: Best wishes, we’re in this together! Got this email the other day: We’re excited to announce that Flickr has agreed to be acquired by SmugMug, the photography platform dedicated to visual storytellers. SmugMug has a long history of empowering people who love photography and who want to improve their craft, making them a perfect fit for Flickr and our creative community....
• 16-Mar-2018

  
  On The Radio. Yesterday I did something I’d planned to do for a long time, but never got around to: I posted a transcript of that time I got on the radio. It took me 15 years and is 9,050 words. I’ve had the recording since 2002. It was a fun moment. Before it happened, here’s what I...
• 12-Mar-2018

  
  Wow calligraphr.com! I found out about calligraphr.com in this article from freecodecamp.org. It was extraordinarily easy to use calligraphr.com’s template image, load it in Procreate on my iPad Pro, sketch out letters A-Z, a-z, 0-9, some punctuation, variant letters and ligatures, upload and there’s a font. Almost too easy! Want this quickie font? Here are two fonts, zipped...
• 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...
• 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...
• 27-Feb-2018

  
  Color the Smiley Over 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...
• 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.
• 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...
• 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...
• 21-Feb-2018

  
  Blog Post Visualization + Code I’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...