I’ve been trying out the Windows Subsytem for Linux lately, using Ubuntu on WSL2. I currently have multiple versions of Ubuntu installed, allowing me to easily get a console to either one. The “problem” I was trying to solve was: not wanting to generate new SSH keys on Ubuntu X, when I already registered SSH […]
Central repos for webfonts are probably one of the greatest things to happen to the visual web. Â Hundreds of fonts are now easily available to spice up your content. I’ve recently found a few nice nuggets for those that use Google’s webfonts, that I thought are worth sharing.
When you search the web a lot, you start to feel the rough spots of the search engines. Â Working with a handful of different frameworks and languages requires to me visit a search engine several times a day. Â Whether I’m checking for the existence of some obscure PHP function or trying to figure out the […]
I’m working on a project that is requiring me to use SSL (to make a https connection) on my local installation of WAMP. Â After much searching and a couple tries, it appears that I finally got it working. Â This post should be useful to anyone who is trying to do the same.
Sometimes you will find yourself linking to documents from a page. Â Suppose you need to link to a PDF, an Excel spreadsheet, or a Microsoft Word document. Â I think that it is in good form to visually denote that these links will begin a download. In a lot of cases, these types of links look […]
I seem to have a few sites running on WordPress now, as do 4 billion other people, but I ran into something today that should be a default setting – yet it isn’t. Â It has to do with pinging web services when you publish a new post on your blog.. And yes.. details after the […]
Image via CrunchBase So I’ve been using Adobe’s kuler when the need arises.. If you are unfamiliar with kuler, it is Adobe’s online color swatch scheme generator thing. Â It is a great tool / resource to find new colors and help you build color themes. @kuler, you can browse premade color palettes that were saved […]
First, a web development video that contains auto-tuning: A possibly quick idea for an autotune website that I will probably never create after the jump…
If you are still using the “old” code to display Google AdSense ads, there is a little know feature that allows you to change the colors dynamically. I have no idea what Google’s official stance on using this feature is, as they say that you cannot edit the code that they give you to paste […]
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