It’s pretty amazing how time flies. I just realized it’s been over a decade since I published my RadioAlphabet site. A little toy project to help me learn the RadioAlphabet. I was never fully satisfied with it because the user has to type letters. I mean, it did its job, to teach the NATO alphabet,…
I met Moru years ago at a WordPress meetup West of Toronto, in Oakville or something. We were both programming geeks of a certain vintage, and shared various other cultural touchpoints, so it was all but inevitable that we should fall into a pretty serious bromance.
My good friend Ray got me wise to this new photo editing software called Affinity Photo. Well, it was “new” to me. It’s been around for a while, judging from all the videos about it on YouTube. I’d been grousing about how much it was costing me to have Adobe PhotoShop on my computer. I…
Every once in a while, when I upload pieces like the one above to social media, such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or Reddit, someone asks for an explanation of the process to produce it. It’s not super complex, but it is a little involved. So, in this post, I’m going to describe the basic process;…
On more than one occasion, while struggling with some squirrelly SCSS I went a-lookin’ for a SASS REPL, and I came up empty. So I decided to write my own. Here’s the thing though: a SASS REPL is an obvious thing. It’s something anyone who uses SASS (or SCSS. I use SASS to mean both.)…
Wherein our hero learns an important life lesson about mind-numbingly crippling pain, and how best to deal with it. ( hint: it involves drugs )
One of the things I love most about the Internet is the great diversity of websites and services available at our fingertips. But with these websites and services comes the need for authentication. Passwords. And ID’s. And with each website, we need to remember the site’s URL, the ID we used, and the password we assigned…
This was a lot less straightforward than I expected. So I’m posting the incantations here in hopes it’ll save others some time. Sequel Pro is a very capable Mac-based, open source, MySQL client. One of these many capabilities is to tunnel via SSH to another server. In this case, we’re going from your host machine (an OSX desktop), to…
Wherein our hero exposes yet more of his unfinished business to the Internets.
Wherein our hero ill-advisedly sheds his protective covering in the name of Art.