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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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=””]…
