External Link: A Nerd’s Guide to Color on the Web
I came across this because I’m up way too early this morning, and LOVE it. Check out this in-depth post on Color, and how Geeks can understand and experiment with it in web technologies. Also always love any call out to Jack at Greensock A Nerd’s Guide to Color on the Web
New Desktop – Build and First Week
So its done. I ditched the grueling, agonizing, torturous, process of picking a new laptop/2-in-1, and went with a beefy desktop to do all my main work. Later I’ll decide what to use while traveling… for now, it’s my iPad. So what did I go with? An Alienware Aurora? Or an Area 51? Some Top-spec […]
Picking a “Travel Computer” – Research
The first hurdle in my quest for a lighter load while traveling is my personal computer. Coming it at 4.02 pounds, and having way more power than I need 90% of the time on the road, I think it’s a fine candidate for down-sizing. The problem is… What to replace it with? Minimal Requirements The […]
Quitting the Internet…
So I got a great geek share from @Michael Sims today, and it really makes me consider quitting theInternets. About half-through the Objections section I knew it was fictitious, but none-the-less scary. We, the end-users, really have no protection for sites using crappy code review processes, or virus-ridden ad servers *cough cough openx cough**. At least […]
External Read: Google Map’s Moat
Ok seriously, I think i just had a brain melt moment… this is some serious geekiness. https://www.justinobeirne.com/google-maps-moat I was talking to my buddy Marcus about how I hated how Google Maps started doing a “smart zoom” at different points, which upset me. The argument is that they are making it “friendlier” for the masses, giving […]
External Read: Reverse Engineer Obfuscated Code
2-in-2 so far with back-to-back gems found in the wild that are worth sharing. Came across this one in Javascript Weekly, showing a walk through of debugging code to figure out how a pop-under service is getting around browser restrictions to serve those “oh-so-loved” pop-under’s.
External Read: Chihuahua or Muffin
But one question I haven’t seen anyone answer is just how good IS modern AI at removing the uncertainty of an image that could resemble a chihuahua or a muffin? For your entertainment and education, I’ll be investigating this question today. Mariya Yao Ok, in all seriousness… how could you NOT click on that title? I received […]
Regex for “Token” Replacement
I think this is the Regex statement I use the most, and yet every single time I end up writing it 3 different ways before getting it correct. It came in handy again when I was writing my post about Keyboard Shortcuts, as I created a shorthand to be replaced by a larger html snippet […]
Shortcut Keys – Part 1
I was recently working with a co-worker, and repeatedly said something along the lines of: “Do X/Y/Z actions”. He was not as familiar with the tools as I was, and I realized while walking through the non-shortcut-key method, some things were incredibly inefficient to get to… and we know I can’t accept that. So I […]