Tag: techtips
- Graphs with Chart.js (10 May 2023), 1500-ish words
Summary: Adding decent charts and graphs to web pages - Normalizing Image Type and Size (05 Apr 2023), 600-ish words
Summary: Using ImageMagick to produce application-friendly images. - Mastodon's API (The Pitfalls) (29 Mar 2023), 1100-ish words
Summary: What I learned on my first couple of projects - Using Linux (16 Nov 2022), 2300-ish words
Summary: How I got here - (Desktop) Night Mode at...Well, Night (09 Nov 2022), 900-ish words
Summary: Hacking together sundown - Styles and Fonts in SVGs (02 Nov 2022), 700-ish words
Summary: Sometimes, your image needs internal styling - Simple Build Scripts (17 Aug 2022), 1100-ish words
Summary: Writing a script to avoid a flawed IDE - Dragging and Dropping on the Web (11 May 2022), 1400-ish words
Summary: Getting drag-and-drop to work using HTML and JavaScript - The Care and Feeding of Plain Text (27 Apr 2022), 3700-ish words
Summary: Storing information for flexible use later - Testing Jekyll Plugins — Small Technology Notes (26 Jan 2022), 1600-ish words
Summary: Ruby code should be Ruby code - Ubuntu Scrolling Woes — Small Technology Notes (12 Jan 2022), 500-ish words
Summary: Opaque features sometimes change - Artificial Stupidity with GitHub Copilot (03 Nov 2021), 2600-ish words
Summary: Progress on assorted projects - Using git to Count Changed Words (13 Oct 2021), 1300-ish words
Summary: More semi-useful git tricks - So You Need an Image of Random Images... (06 Oct 2021), 1500-ish words
Summary: Generating a random collage of small images - Where Have All the Emoji Gone? (29 Sep 2021), 600-ish words
Summary: Hunting down Unicode's emoji segments - Startup, but Not Really Startup (22 Sep 2021), 1300-ish words
Summary: Running on or near startup on Linux, just using the shell - Writing Jekyll Plugins (21 Jul 2021), 3100-ish words
Summary: Extending Jekyll's formatting - Assembling a Dark Mode (24 Mar 2021), 1600-ish words
Summary: An overview of adding a "dark mode" feature - How Long Will That Project Take? (27 Jan 2021), 2000-ish words
Summary: A quick discussion of how estimates work - Writing a Twitter Bot (28 Oct 2020), 1400-ish words
Summary: Creating a simple Twitter Bot - Changing the Primary Git Branch (29 Jul 2020), 1300-ish words
Summary: Cleaning up some unpleasant terminology. - Configuring a Visual Studio Code Extension (15 Jul 2020), 700-ish words
Summary: Creating a simple extension for Visual Studio Code - Writing Visual Studio Code Extensions (08 Jul 2020), 1000-ish words
Summary: Creating a simple extension for Visual Studio Code - Writing Browser Extensions with Configuration (24 Jun 2020), 1100-ish words
Summary: Creating a simple browser extension, with storage - Writing Browser Extensions (17 Jun 2020), 1000-ish words
Summary: Creating a simple browser extension - Experimenting with Worker Threads (15 Apr 2020), 900-ish words
Summary: 🧵 Multi-threaded code in JavaScript...sort of - Small-D date Night (18 Mar 2020), 900-ish words
Summary: 🕰️ The GNU date command for fun and profit - Colors for Programmers (11 Mar 2020), 3400-ish words
Summary: Colors Are (Relatively) Easy - Happy (Orthodox?) Pi Day, Tomorrow! (04 Mar 2020), 1000-ish words
Summary: Everything you know about Pi Day is a lie! - Recutils — Small Technology Notes (05 Feb 2020), 1900-ish words
Summary: A plain-text database management system - Small Technology Notes (29 Jan 2020), 900-ish words
Summary: Ignoring changes, comparing branches, local histories, and external drives - Metal Umlauts, Searching, and Other Unicode Fun (17 Dec 2019), 1100-ish words
Summary: Re-normalizing strings for improved user experience and entertainment