Ask Me Questions One At A Time
I use ChatGPT and Claude Code a lot in my programming now. I used to start by stating the problem or goal and then letting it write the code immediately. …
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Vibe Coding, Day Two
Well I started making my Flow Spark app yesterday, and today I finished it with the help of ChatGPT and vibes. It includes: Codeigniter 4 backend running on Apache 2 …
Vibe Coding An App For Myself Is Good Vibes
This week I had an idea for an app that I want for myself. It’s sort of a Tinder for multipotentialites, except the images are projects I want to work …
Multiple Open Graph Images in Act-On Landing Page
A client asked me today if there is any way to have multiple Open Graph (og:image) images in an Act-On landing page, as Act-On only specifies one image in their …
Muse Plushies
I have three plush toys that sit behind my keyboard, Prickles the hedgehog, Spike the stingray, and Scarlet the octopus. They are muses of sorts and help me as I …
Leap Second on 6/30/2015 Caused mysqld Process To Consume CPU
This morning I got a notification that mysqld was consuming on average 35% of the CPU on one my servers. This was strange because this particular server doesn’t even use …
Datatables in a Colorbox iframe with Selected Row Returned to Parent Window
I recently created a form where one of the questions was asking for a specific code (specifically, a NAICS code). The problem was that there are almost 20,000 codes to …
Suppress Test::More Output For Use In Nagios
I needed a quick way to check for XML well-formedness in a Perl Nagios script and I found that Test::XML has a test called is_well_formed_xml($xml) that does the job nicely. …
Nagios, Belkin WeMo and a Plasma Globe
I monitor a number of servers using nagios and I always thought it would be neat to be able to have some sort of ambient device light up when there …
Nginx with php-fpm generating blank page
I struggled a long time trying to figure out why my nginz + php-fpm setup was not working. I could tell that the gateway was fine and I was getting …
Making Aquamacs kill and yank work with the clipboard
My favorite editor on the Mac is Aquamacs (me and Emacs go waaay back) and something that has long been a productivity killer for me was the different actions of …
Find a Javascript parent node that matches a certain string
Here’s a small bit of javascript that I use in my Sencha Touch projects to find a parent with an id that matches a string. function findParentNodeRegex(regex, childObj) { var …
Detecting a click in a checkbox with jQuery
A simple script to detect when a checkbox is clicked. What you do with once you’ve detected the click is up to you. <html> <head> <script src=”http://www.google.com/jsapi”></script> <script> google.load(“jquery”, “1.3.2”); …
Redirect from within a WordPress admin page
I was trying to perform a redirect to generate a CSV file from within a WordPress admin page using the wp_redirect( ) function, but the problem was that I would …
Result of expression ‘document.forms[0].submit’ [[object HTMLInputElement]] is not a function.
I was trying to add a small delay into my form submission like so: <form … onsubmit=”setTimeout(‘document.forms[0].submit()’,2000);return false;”> but everytime I tried it, I got the following error: Result of …
Using Skype to control a model train
Small wireless spy cameras are widely available, and there are even a few available specifically for HO-scale trains. This got me to thinking about letting my cousin in Germany run …
Useless use of private variable in void context (Perl)
Can you see what is wrong with this Perl code snippet? foreach my $cat (@$categories) { if ($cat->{col} == $column and $cat=>{pos} == $position) { return $cat; } } It …
Lava lamps for programming
I just love this idea: integrating lava lamps to Cruise Control so that you can see when a software build has gone bad. The idea is to turn on a …