Building a utility toolkit
There are tools that you use in all your projects and you'd rather not have to manually install every time. The project attempts to create a set of those scripts packed as an NPM module, modeled after...
JS font loading API
CSS Font Loading Module Level 3 presents a Javascript API for loading fonts in a similar way to how Fontface Observer works. This API allows you to do more things than third-party tools can and it's...
Remote debugging on mobile
There are times when the mobile version of an app doesn't work but the actual version does, or we might want to run the app in an actual device to see how it works. We need a way to run the code on a...
Revisting HTML To PDF Conversion with CSS Paged Media
I've looked at CSS Paged Media in the past. IMO it's an awesome technology that allows you to create stunning end products from your HTML, CSS, and, optionally Javascript. The layouts for the printed...
Creating and Running Your Own Homebrew Tap
I love Homebrew, I really do. But some of the limitations of the system, while understandable from a maintenance point of view, can be really frustrating. In How to Create and Maintain a Tap the...
OCR in Node with Tesseract.js
I've always wanted to do Optical Character Recognition (OCR) in Node.js but the alternatives always seemed too complicated for simple command line and browser use. Recently I came accross...
Creating hashes in Node
There are times when we want to create a hash from either a string or an existing file. This has multiple uses. Some that come to mind are: Validate the file has not changed. As long as the file...
Generating UUIDs with Node
UUIDs (Universally Unique IDentifier) are also known as GUIDs (Globally Unique IDentifier). A UUID is 128 bits long and can guarantee uniqueness across space and time. UUIDs are defined in RFC...
Command line tools in Local by Flywheel
It is easy to think of Local by Flywheel as just a way to run a WordPress site locally. It is that and it is also much more than that. Review: What is Local by Flywheel? # Local by Flywheel (Local) is...
Creating a technology glossary
As part of creating a writing guide for my content, I've been thinking about how to create a glossary of technical terms that we can expand as we go along. Yahoo! Style Guide provided such a glossary...