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short and simple Linux .profile status banner 1

Nov

26

2021

Here’s just a short post about a little .profile code snippet I use to help give me a brief system overview upon logging into my accounts.. It produces an output similar to the one below. Now I understand there are tons of little utilities out there like Neofetch (commind line system information tool), that provides ...

How to schedule and record live internet radio streams

Oct

15

2021

So recently I had a need to record a radio broadcast that happens pretty regularly, but its an overseas station, and the time zone is not convenient to get up in the middle of the night and turn on my mp3 recorder. So I was looking for a good scheduled radio recorder, but surprisingly didn’t ...

Everything you wanted to know about Apollo Guidance Computer … great talk on details of 1st moon landing.

Feb

12

2021

Came across a great YouTube talk on the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) and its role in the first moon landing.. The AGC is a historic piece of technology that got us to the moon. In a day and age (1960’s) when computers took up an entire room, this custom made piece of hardware and software ...

saving ContentEditable HTML using PHP simple example 7

Dec

21

2019

HTML supports (in most browsers) the contentEditable attribute which allows you to dynamically change a web page(s) content by simply editing the page, think of it like a WYSIWYG editor , but built-in to the browser. The purpose of this post is to show you how you can use this to create a simple, but ...

web page hot reload in plain JavaScript + Apache & PHP 4

Apr

29

2019

Hot re-loading, that is automatically updating the web page, when its content changes on the server, into the browser is a convenient developer aid for modern tooling like, webpack, AngularJS, ReactJS, VueJS etc. I created super simple way by just adding one JavaScript include at the bottom of your file and it works with a ...

Javascript Server Sent Events SSE easy tutorial demo of (EventSource) 4

Apr

5

2019

This easy to follow tutorial will show you how to stream server data (sometimes called SSE’s, Server Sent Events) , in real-time to your browser. Using Javascript’s EventSource API interface we can seamlessly update and display on a web page real-time server-sent data all without the complexities of setting up a web socket server. Why ...

my Retirement calculator (javascript) – can you retire now? 2

Apr

3

2019

I decided to create a modern, easy to use and practical on-line retirement calculator, and I open-sourced it too! There are ton’s of these available all over the internet, but none really quite had enough details or the specific details I wanted to make them useful. So I approached this retirement calculator from the FIRE ...

Top 10 incredibly useful Javascript / Jquery code snippets 2

Mar

21

2019

Here’s my list of 10 useful JavaScript & some Jquery code snippets. The code snippets below are pretty useful and find myself reusing them again and again in all sorts of situations. I have created full-page examples of these snippets, go grab them over at my [icon name=”github” class=”” unprefixed_class=””] Javascript Github Repo Note: For ...

Log events via PHP to database with Windows or Linux command line

Feb

13

2019

Here’s a neat example (for Linux and Windows systems) of how to easily capture (log) and store the result of some script or program or really anything, in a central database table. Sure you could use just a log file, but spinning up an instance of MySQL (or SQLite) is trivial, and in the long ...

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