Vibe coding a face detection app
I've been using AI agents more and more in my work. Sometimes you get super helpful results, and sometimes you have a...
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42Coding with AI
Lately I've been exploring different AI tools to help with coding tasks. It's been very interesting. It's kind of like...
Fun with CSS animations
Recently I completed a CSS Animation course on LinkedIn Learning. I've done plenty of CSS before, but had never really...
Rotate images in Go
Problem While working on an image upload service, I noticed that sometimes images got saved with the wrong...
Regular expression for international names
Today I learned something new about regular expressions. Credit goes to Matt Montgomery for sharing this with...
Taking back my data
Recently I finished a big project that took a few months to complete. I decided to migrate all of my family's data away...
Formatting dates in Gatsby
The problem My blog post dates are stored in this format: "YYYY-MM-DD", but I wanted to display them in a different...
Trying out Gatsby
Lately I've been feeling like I should start blogging again, but the site needed some love first. As they say, "The...
Install fonts on ubuntu
The other day I needed to install some fonts on our ubuntu server that were needed for an email script. Not something...
Simple chat application in PHP using Ratchet
In the previous post I made a demo chat app using React and Socket.io. In this post we'll build that same app again,...
Delete files older than N days on Linux
Today I needed to delete a bunch of old log files to clear up some room on our server. Here’s a handy shortcut that I...
Import tags from a CSV
Recently I needed to add a large list of tags to a WordPress site. The tags were in a spreadsheet, so I converted it to...
Apache redirect vs. rewrite
Apache rewrite rules can be very confusing at times. They're very powerful, but not easily understood or mastered. I...
Sorting and filtering on custom columns
This is a 2-part post discussing how to set up custom columns for a custom post type in WordPress. Part 1 focuses on...
Adding custom columns (including the admin links)
This is a 2-part post discussing how to set up custom columns for a custom post type in WordPress. Part 1 focuses on...
Trigger onSelect from today button in Datepicker
The jQuery UI Datepicker widget is a handy way to add a calendar control to a web page. It's pretty easy to implement...
Demo plugin for using WordPress Settings API
I spent a lot of time recently figuring out the Wordpress Settings API. Although there are still parts of it that...
Proper-casing names when they are stored in all caps
Reformatting names is generally inadvisable, because no matter what you do you'll be wrong. Names don't follow rules...
Using Twitter's typeahead.js
I decided to try out Twitter's typeahead.js the other day. It was bit confusing at first because I kept finding...
Using Google web fonts
Today I tried switching a website to web fonts. It was pretty easy to implement using Google Fonts. 1. Choose a...
Display an RSS feed using the Google Feed API
Some time you may want to grab an RSS feed from another site and display it on yours. Here's how you can do it using...
Where to put your custom WordPress functions
I found a great WordPress tip while reading some articles today. Often when you're trying to solve a problem you'll...
CSS background patterns
CSS is getting more and more awesome all the time. The other day I discovered that you can create background patterns...
Passing checkbox (boolean) values in ajax
Problem: I was reminded today that JavaScript boolean values don't translate well to PHP. Here's an example. Say you...