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    How to Create and Manage CRON Jobs

    Interval or scheduled task execution is used all over computer science, the most obvious use case being transaction batching.  For web developers like myself, the most obvious use case is executing CRON jobs for this blog, including polling for scheduled blog post publishing and a variety...

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    Limit Download Speed with Apache

    My adventures into retro gaming have brought me back into the semi-seedy world of piracy websites and the technology considerations that dictate their business model.  Annoying popups and pornographic advertisements aside, the most obvious technological observation I made was that each of these sites used bandwidth...

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    Detect Video Resolution

    Video resolution has always been something I've been interested in, starting with the purchase of my first HD television.  The HD video quality felt life-changing, especially when watching the World Cup, which I'd bought that TV for.  I carried that enthusiasm through to being an early...

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    Hello DevTools!

    When I was a 17 year old noob, going to technical college in my home town, I was introduced to a browser called Firebird, which would later be renamed Firefox.  I was immediately drawn to this new browser; Firebird was fresh, exuded excitement, but most of...

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    Awesome File Compression and Delivery with KeyCDN and Brotli

    I've seen the KeyCDN name around for years, mostly as a free content delivery network (CDN) for many open source JavaScript frameworks, and based on that alone I've always thought very well of them.  KeyCDN recently asked me to check out one of...

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    Six Tiny But Awesome ES7 + ES8 Features

    Development of new features for the core JavaScript language has really improved over the last five years, thanks in part to JavaScript frameworks pushing the limits and proving how important given functionality can be.  My previous ES6 posts, Six Tiny But Awesome ES6 Features and...

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    JavaScript fetch with Timeout

    The fetch API started out as a target for criticism because of lack of timeout and request cancelation.  While those criticisms could be argued as fair or not, you can't deny that the fetch API has been pretty awesome.  As we've always done, if a...

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    Watch for Object Changes with JavaScript

    Watching for changes to an object's property has always been a much sought after task; many shims have been used over the years to listen to object changes.  These days we have better methods for listening to object changes:  the Proxy API.  Sindre Sorhus has created 

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    Goals for 2018

    Every turn of the year is a new opportunity to start over, set goals, and renew optimism that time can heal wounds and drive us to change and achieve.  For me 2018 is my most important year in a long time; 2018 needs to serve as...

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    Dynamic Waveform Visualizations with wavesurfer.js

    Waveform images are an awesome addition to boring audio widgets.  They can be functional as well as aesthetically pleasing, allowing users to navigate audio visually.  I recently found wavesurfer.js, an amazing waveform image utility that uses to Web Audio API to create super customizable...