Today I learned that Korea was annexed by the Empire of Japan from 1910 until 1945. It was then occupied by the United States and the Soviet Union following WW2. Dad told me this after having learned it himself minutes before (I’m assuming via Wikipedia).
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TIL 3
Today I learned that sporadic posts are easier to achieve than daily posts 😉 Also, in France the government allows just two sale periods a year.
TIL 2
Well daily posting didn’t last long 🤦♂️. To be fair I had this draft saved yesterday… Uncle Tom’s Cabin was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe and was written primarily to influence white Christian women. It is credited as having helped to advance the abolishionist cause but has since received criticism for perpetuating stereotypes. Per Conversations […]
TIL 1
Bloggin’ ain’t easy so I am going to try to a share something I learn every day. Mostly to get into the habit of blogging consistently but also to encourage myself to learn interesting things and justify the hours I spend learning random shit… So here is TIL 1 Bight is a term used in […]
Migrating WordPress ain’t easy
So I need to migrate a WordPress / WooCommerce and it is not proving easy. I have tried the premium versions of Backup Guard and Duplicator and neither plugin has allowed me to migrate the site successfully. I am talking with their respective support teams now but the fact that neither worked out of the […]
Please make the Myki recharge button more clear on Google Pay
I’m silly and keep forgetting where it is ☺️… Maybe make it blue or red or something?
A little Awk
Awk is a command for doing things with text files. We give it a text file and it can do an action on each line. So we can print the whole line, or part of the line, or reorder parts. As a simple example, here’s a CSV of people’s last name, first name, age, and […]
The Best .com Domain Registrars
The BestDynaDot and NameSilo. Both have free whois privacy, free email forwarding and free DNS management. Plus Afternic and Sedo MLS integration for investors. The RestGoDaddy By far the most the most popular registrar. More expensive than other registrars and a little sleazy with the upsells. Some will appreciate the phone support and localisation.Epik They […]
Intercept requests with puppeteer
useful to mock backend responses when you don’t want to have to donate RAM to minikube when developing locally // from https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer/blob/master/docs/api.md#pagesetrequestinterceptionvalue const puppeteer = require(‘puppeteer’); (async function main() { try { const browser = await puppeteer.launch({ headless: false }); const [page] = await browser.pages(); await page.setRequestInterception(true); page.on(‘request’, (interceptedRequest) => { if (interceptedRequest.url().includes(‘additional_metrics.json’) { interceptedRequest.respond({ […]
Numeronyms make Awful Names
a16z – Andresson Horowitz. I don’t hear/use this often enough to remember it, so completely forget what it stands for a11y – Accessibility. I come across this all the time, yet can never remember what word it is short for. Yet I link ‘a11y’ to the concept of accessibility. My issue with this is possibly […]