I have an old Raspberry Pi that I recently setup as a seedbox. The Raspberry Pi had a weird problem in that it would disconnect me from SSH seemingly at random. I would begin to run a command, watch the command progress and then get disconnected. It took me a couple hours of checking everything, but eventually…
If-else statements are common in programing languages. Clojure does not have an explicit if-else statement. Instead, Clojure’s if statement provides a place for an ‘else’ case. A Clojure if statement would look like this (if true “that is true” “that is false”) This statement looks at the first true. If it is not false or…
Different browsers on different operating systems will have different sized scrollbars. This can mess up the design of a page. The default scrollbar width can range anywhere from 12px to 17px. Webkit browsers also have the ability for the user to configure scrollbar widths. Webkit browsers, such as Chrome can have custom scrollbars that can…
I have an account on a shared Linux server that allows me to SSH into the server. My account on the server does not have root or sudo privileges. The server also does not have Nodejs or NPM installed onto it, so doing any sort of web development work is difficult. Most modern front end…
Some of the things that I develop are done on a low end VPS. Today I was using metalsmith to create a simple blog/website on a low memory VPS. Metalsmith is a nodejs based static website builder. It’s an easy way to use javascript on the server to create static websites. When one is ready to deploy metalsmith,…
Revers DNS (rDNS) requires you to input the reverse ip6.arpa address of an IPv6 address. This can be difficult and time consuming to do by hand. This calculator will take an IPv6 address and output the reverse ip6.arpa format. Useful for PTR records. It can also take a valid arpa format IPv6 address and turn…
The Vue-i18n documentation does a good job of explaining the usage for this library, but the documents lack much information about testing localization of Vue apps. This guide will explain how I have added Jest unit tests to my Vue-i18n implementation. Why Use Vue-i18n Vue-i18n provides an easy way to integrate translation, pluralization, dateTime, and number…
Also known as Carrier Ethernet or Private Line Transport, Ethernet Transport is usually used to provide a physical connection to a local area network (LAN). Transport is different from IP transit. Ethernet transport does not necessarily mean a connection to the Internet at large. It is a way to connect two points using layer 2…
Common port numbers need to be memorized by anyone who is looking to work in tech. Once you start working in tech you will memorize these port numbers just because you have to work with them all the time. However, if you are looking to get your foot in the tech industry, having these port…
I love graphs, charts and visualizations. I find that telling a story through data is a great way to express ideas. These types of visualizations are especially great for translating analytic data into easy to understand information. The modern Internet has a ton of different ways for web developers to express data visualizations and build…