One of the questions I often get asked is: “why do you focus so much on the making fast websites?” The answer is simple. If your website takes too long to load and has sluggish performance most people won’t stick around to see your content. Of course a website needs to look great, have good… Continue reading Fast Websites
The Humble Web Form
I am an independent web dev and have been for most of my life. If there is one thing you can count on as a dev, it’s that you will be making a web form. If I have to use a form allot I am going to make it as easy to use and as… Continue reading The Humble Web Form
Square Peg
I always try to focus forward ( never straight Mr. Norman ); but I was doing some manual labor yesterday… As my mind was not occupied on a coding or sysadmin type task it wandered back over 40 years of memories. Contrary to popular opinion I am human, so I did experience the at least… Continue reading Square Peg
But First, Coffee
I’ve Heard the theory that civilization happened because beer gave city dwellers something to drink other than water that carried all manner of diseases back then. Sure, that tracks, but what about coffee? Be it Starbucks, french press, Keurig, or just a cup of joe ( no, instant is not coffee ), what modern tech… Continue reading But First, Coffee
How I Learned to Stop Worrying about AES and Love the Chacha
Way back in the 1800’s, the Irish thought that they had solved the problem of feeding an ever growing population. They started planting Lumper potatoes; since potatoes are propagated vegetatively, all of the subsequent lumper ‘taters were genetic clones – identical to one another. This seemed like a good idea, a starving population is surely… Continue reading How I Learned to Stop Worrying about AES and Love the Chacha
MongoDb, The Ninja, and Glorified JSON…
Since back towards the end of 2020 I have been learning MongoDb. I haven’t blogged about it because as it turns out you can either learn a technology or write about it 🙂 I’m just kidding. Kinda. I was raised on SQL databases – first MySQL and SQL Server and later Postgresql. I even have… Continue reading MongoDb, The Ninja, and Glorified JSON…
The “Third Man In” Rule
The very best thing about Hockey is the invention of the Third Man In rule. It should be applied to everything. In life. The idea being that if there are 2 consenting idiots that want to fight each other; get out of the way and let them fight each other. Don’t be the cunt (the… Continue reading The “Third Man In” Rule
Material Design vs. Bootstrap
I am no stranger to Front-end frameworks, and lately I have had occasion to work with Material Design and Bootstrap. Specifically I have been working with Vuetify which is a Material Design component framework for use with Vue, and the standard 4x version of Bootstrap. I had more experience previously with Bootstrap than I did… Continue reading Material Design vs. Bootstrap
AI Blog
If you had a blog that was composed of only the ramblings of artificial intelligence that you created, would that mean that you wrote the blog? Well that was the idea that I was working through when I created AIBL0G.COM. AI Blog and GANs After taking a Python Machine Learning and a Tensor Flow class… Continue reading AI Blog
Wheres Zup News Sites
The other day I was thinking about all of the ways people consume news. I was wondering what was the best source of news was out of all the news sites on the Internet. This has been of interest to me ever since I started the HEADLIN3S project a few years ago. News sites haven’t… Continue reading Wheres Zup News Sites