Embedding Fonts with CSS and Base64

Articles in Style and Layout | By August R. Garcia
Published 2 months agoTue, 26 Feb 2019 11:29:50 -0800

How base64 encoding font files can allow for some moderately interesting workarounds on various blogging platforms.

3,194 views, 0 RAMs, and 1 comment

Patch Notes 1.8.0 -- 08 March, 2019

Articles in Announcements | By August R. Garcia
Published 2 months agoSat, 09 Mar 2019 20:52:06 -0800 | Last update 2 months agoSat, 09 Mar 2019 20:54:06 -0800

Asyncronously handled rams, "share this post" icons, index/directory heading reworks, post previews, and some other updates.

141 views, 1 RAM, and 3 comments

How to use GZip compression on your website

Articles in Server-Side | By Hash Brown
Published 2 months agoSun, 10 Mar 2019 20:51:00 -0700

GZip is a form of file compression that can be used by websites to reduce the size of the files being transferred to users. this decreases load time as well as reduces server load.

122 views, 0 RAMs, and 0 comments

How to add expires headers

Articles in Server-Side | By Hash Brown
Published 2 months agoSat, 09 Mar 2019 20:44:06 -0800

Expires headers are a great thing to add for all website owners, they speed up load times for your repeat users which is good for everyone.

105 views, 1 RAM, and 0 comments

Preventing Hotlinking with .htaccess

Articles in Server-Side | By Hash Brown
Published 2 months agoSat, 09 Mar 2019 19:30:44 -0800

Hotlinking can be bad. It can choke your website, use all your resources and even cost you $100's in bandwidth charges. You should stop hotlinking with .htaccess.

115 views, 1 RAM, and 0 comments

A Review and Overview of the Charles Web Debugging Proxy Application

Articles in Professional Tools | By Some Guy
Published 2 months agoSat, 09 Mar 2019 17:59:21 -0800 | Last update 2 months agoSat, 09 Mar 2019 18:03:57 -0800

This application is probably older than you are.

143 views, 1 RAM, and 0 comments

How to export a MySQL or MariaDB Query to a CSV

Articles in Databases | By August R. Garcia
Published 2 months agoFri, 08 Mar 2019 16:39:12 -0800

TL;DR: Here is a one-line command to run from your local machine.

147 views, 0 RAMs, and 0 comments

Upwork vs Fiverr | What Are Freelancer Sites Good For?

Articles in Project Management | By Louis J. V. Cicalese
Published 2 months agoFri, 08 Mar 2019 11:24:39 -0800 | Last update 2 weeks agoSun, 05 May 2019 12:28:34 -0700 📌

How to hire a Kermit the Frog impersonator on the Internet

341 views, 1 RAM, and 2 comments

How to Make a "Share on Mastodon" Button in Pure/Vanilla JavaScript

Articles in Social Media Marketing | By August R. Garcia
Published 2 months agoThu, 07 Mar 2019 07:38:03 -0800 | Last update 2 months agoThu, 07 Mar 2019 10:01:24 -0800

Creating a "Share on Mastodon" button is done relatively easily with pure JavaScript.

621 views, 0 RAMs, and 2 comments

[HTML5] How These Off-Brand Divs Help With SEO

Articles in Web Development | By Louis J. V. Cicalese
Published 2 months agoWed, 06 Mar 2019 18:18:43 -0800 | Last update 4 days agoWed, 15 May 2019 10:20:19 -0700

An Overview on How Semantic Elements are used for web-crawling and ranking

117 views, 0 RAMs, and 0 comments

[HTML5] Presentational vs Semantic Elements

Articles in Web Development | By Louis J. V. Cicalese
Published 2 months agoWed, 06 Mar 2019 18:03:47 -0800 | Last update 4 days agoWed, 15 May 2019 10:20:08 -0700

135 views, 0 RAMs, and 0 comments

What is the Wayback Machine? | How the Internet Archive uses Web Crawlers to Preserve Internet History

Articles in Other Websites | By Louis J. V. Cicalese
Published 2 months agoWed, 06 Mar 2019 16:21:50 -0800 | Last update 1 week agoMon, 06 May 2019 13:06:05 -0700

Strange things are afoot at the Circle K.

1,735 view, 1 RAM, and 0 comments

The Complete Guide to Discord Text Formatting, Syntax Highlighting, and Tricks for Adding Colors

Articles in Other Websites | By August R. Garcia
Published 2 months agoWed, 06 Mar 2019 11:24:57 -0800 | Last update 2 months agoWed, 06 Mar 2019 11:32:03 -0800

Text formatting in Discord is sexy! Let me spoon-feed you my man.

589 views, 1 RAM, and 0 comments

How does audio compression work?

Articles in Computer Software | By August R. Garcia
Published 2 months agoFri, 01 Mar 2019 14:44:55 -0800

How is it that complex audio recordings could be transferred over dial-up connections in the 1990s?

598 views, 0 RAMs, and 1 comment

Generating Fake Reddit Comments with Markov Chains

Articles in Scripting and Automation | By August R. Garcia
Published 2 months agoThu, 28 Feb 2019 16:31:18 -0800 | Last update 2 months agoThu, 28 Feb 2019 17:23:39 -0800

It's like 2013 or something.

955 views, 1 RAM, and 4 comments