WordPress is More Complicated Than I Remember
I’m finally setting my blog back up, after some issues with my old web host. My not wanting to bother with those issues has caused it to be down for a while. I’m using WordPress again, this time with...
View ArticleIntroducing “Tech of the Week”
Each week, starting this coming week, I’m going to delve into a different thing related to the Web or software development. I’ll write about the experience of using or learning it, and provide links...
View ArticleTech of the Week: CSS
Welcome to the first installment of a weekly(ish) segment where I learn some things about a technology and then write some things about it. This week, I spent some time looking at CSS, and I’ll share...
View ArticleOptions for Pausing the Animation of GIFs
GIFs used to be just atmospheric decoration. Now they’re usually short, looping, silent videos. As videos, it’s not very nice to have them play automatically. It’s much better when they have a play...
View ArticleGit-Bisect is a Great Debugging Tool, Even If You’re Not Using It
git-bisect is a command within Git. It checks out commits so that you can find the one where a problem was introduced. As the title says, it’s a great debugging tool– even if you’re not using it! How...
View ArticleSlicing and Splicing in JavaScript and Python
This post covers some of the syntax and parameters for doing array or list slices and splices in Python and JavaScript — in other words, working with sections of lists or arrays, instead of the whole...
View ArticleBait And Switch Pricing – A Bluehost Retrospective
Now that I’ve finally finished migrating my WordPress blog off of Bluehost, here are some things about it. The Good As far as WordPress hosts go, it was fine. The only technical issue I had was that...
View ArticlePsalm Zero Zero Two Three
The Borg is my shepherd; I shall not resist. She maketh me to lie down in green alcoves: She leadeth me to my designated work area. She regenerateth my soul: She leadeth me in the paths of perfection...
View ArticleGit Rebase: Upstream Means Since
In a codebase at work, I was trying to rebase onto a branch with a squashed commit. The problem with that is that your branch has commits equivalent to the squashed commit, so you need to tell Git:...
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