Articles
These cover a variety of topics. Some of them might software development, productivity, web tech, and popular culture. These are typically referred to as "blog posts", but the term blog has largely fallen out of favor. The term "posts" has largely been recast to refer to short content on social media sites like Facebook or Mastodon. Since my writings are usally longer, I prefer to my writings as articles.
Personal Cheat Sheet Programs
Nobody can remember everything. So it’s essential to write things down. Using custom cheat sheets for ourselves, can help us be effective at things important to our work.
Almost Election Day
Election Day 2024 is almost here. It feels like it took forever to get to this point. I think America is ready to turn the page, and create a new way forward.
The Missing Website Style Manual
Some industries have a long standing practice of using a manual of style. Journalists in the United States use the Associated Press Stylebook. Literary and academic book publishers in the US use the Chicago Manual of Style (CMOS). The CMOS is their definitive guide for complying to the rules of grammar. The Elements of Style … Read more » The Missing Website Style Manual
PHP Dev Hack: Shell Style Comments
If you’ve done any PHP coding, you’ve learned that PHP supports 3 styles of comments. The first is a single line comment use two forward slashes`//` which comments everything until the end of the line. This is a C++ style comment. A second single line comment style are “shell style”, which use the pound sign … Read more » PHP Dev Hack: Shell Style Comments