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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…
Tagged Unity3D
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Kodi Clients and Open Media Vault NAS
I recently reconfigured my HTPC and home network to use Open Media Vault, an opensource NAS solution. I used the hardware I had on hand: a Raspberry Pi 3 and several USB drives. I recommend trying to make your setup work with what you have before investing in additional hardware. Even if you find that…
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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…
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A Plugin For Developing WordPress Plugins
There are a number of helper functions that I often find I’m missing when developing WordPress plugins. I’ve decided to put some of those in a WordPress plugin itself. I called this plugin Helpful Strangers because the functions are strangers to the platform, and only helpful functions are included. Because this plugin includes functions that…
Posted in ProgrammingTagged WordPress
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How To Cut Back On Big Tech
Many people seem to be examining their technology habits lately. It seems as though some people are trying to cut out certain technologies without really understanding why. Take this Gizmodo article “I Cut the ‘Big Five’ Tech Giants From My Life. It Was Hell”. The reporter blocked everything from the big five tech companies, including…
Posted in TechnologyTagged tech
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Browser Privacy
If you want to tune up your privacy online, a good place to start is with your browser. What I propose is a moderate approach. The setup I have at the moment is Firefox using DuckDuckGo’s Privacy Essentials. Consider The Humble Browser Is your entry to the world wide web controlled by Google’s Chrome, Microsoft’s…
Posted in Technology
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Unity 2D Reverse Sorting Game
Before taking on a big project, it is usually a good idea to try out a small manageable project. This has been my approach to learning Unity, a game development platform. Several months ago, I choose two test projects to port from old 8-bit Atari and Commodore BASIC to Unity and C#. The first is…
Posted in ProgrammingTagged Unity3D
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Localhost Site Listing
Every time I set up a local development, I create a simple page that lists the folders in my html folder. I often find it’s particularly handy if I’m working on multiple projects on localhost and autocomplete has become a bit useless. While the project is primarily to save me time setting up new systems,…
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