Category: Programming
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Fallout Explore for Atari 2600
Fallout Explore is a retro-style adventure game inspired by the iconic Fallout series. Set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, the game challenges the player to explore a dangerous world filled with hostile creatures, limited resources, and hidden treasures. Using classic Atari 2600 graphics and sound effects, Fallout Explore centres on a vault dweller scouring an apocalyptic…
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BASIC Games Reborn
The astounding success of Wordle had me thinking about the BASIC program that it very closely resembles. In my copy of BASIC Computer Games from 1970, it is simply called Word. A player guesses a five-letter word and the computer tells the player which letters are matches and whether they are in the correct position.…
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WordPress, Google PageSpeed Insights and Google AdSense
I was checking in on the status of my website in Google PageSpeed Insights using the Lighthouse scanner built into Google Chrome. I wasn’t happy with the results. Why The Scores Dropped The scores were all green last time I checked. I hadn’t made any updates to theme since then. However, I do know that…
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Check-in Calendar and Log
Over the course of 2020 and 2021, different countries and regions imposed various levels of restrictions on gatherings. In Canada, employers were required to have employees work from home where possible. I have been working from home since March 2020, and work for a small business that has managed to coordinate the small number of…
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Bash Script To Backup Folders and Databases using a Cron Job
I sometimes find I need a simple script to backup one or multiple folders and databases. This script just takes a list of pre-defined folders and databases, compresses the folder contents, and executes a database dump. A maximum of seven backups are kept, any older ones are deleted. Customize the first six variables as needed.
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Updating A Gulp Script
One of the challenges with development is that tools and libraries evolve over time. It often becomes necessary to either upgrade to a newer library or change libraries entirely. The update from Grub 3.x to 4.x required a bit of refactoring. Neither script is overly complex but there is enough there to illustrate some of…
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WordPress, Google PageSpeed Insights and WebP Image Formats
If you evaluate your website using Google PageSpeed Insights, you may find it complaining that you’re not using the WebP image format. First Scan The first scan with PageSpeed Insights gave me pretty good results for desktop, and somewhat poor results for mobile. The highest rated opportunity promised to save seven seconds in load time.…
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ReddyEddy
ReddyEddy is an application share a draft email with one person without, view and accept suggested changes, and update your draft copy seamlessly. It is intended for users who want to run an email by someone before sending it, accepting some or all of their suggestions, and then update their draft email with those revisions.…
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Toddler Button Masher
My one-year old son loves interacting with technology. Cell phones, remote controls, keyboards, mice. It’s great, and I want to encourage healthy tech literacy. The problem is that he is still learning and most tech out there is built for adults, not children. Even the games that are built for children are impacted by adult…
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Bash Script To Create WordPress Site
A few months ago, I wrote a bash script that creates a database with a few simple prompts. Even though I knew the database commands from memory, it was still more convenient to only input the necessary data. I decided to build out a similar workflow for creating WordPress sites. At the core of this…