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    Find Empty Files and Directories from Command Line

    If you are anything like me, you like to keep your projects as tight as possible.  By "tight" I mean no lingering, useless files or directories, because bloat is an incredible annoyance and distraction.  And we don't want distractions, do we? There's a really easy way to...

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    Enhanced Email Validation with mailboxlayer

    Validation is an important part of managing any data you receive, especially when it comes to web forms.  If you really want to be secure with the data, you use HTML5 validation rules, JavaScript validation, and then the most importantly layer, the server-side layer.  Even...

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    O’Reilly Fluent Conference – San Jose – Discount and Giveaway!

    O'Reilly's amazing Fluent Conference is coming back to San Jose, CA this June 11th-14th.  Fluent is a special conference for web developers looking to harden their skills, learn about what's coming in the web world, and to hear from industry leading developers from Mozilla...

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    Using Storybook with Nuxt

    Nuxt.js has been a lot of fun to use in production web apps and side projects. It's simple, fast, and seems very in line with web standards when it comes to creating components, importing plugins, etc. Equally as exciting has been the rise of...

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    Better Node.js Console Dumps with console-probe

    Writing JavaScript in the Node.js environment has always felt a bit more difficult; probably because browser developer tools have become incredibly powerful, interactive, and visually appealing.  Using console.log on the client side isn't the best of experiences and obviously isn't interactive. Though not interactive, I've found that

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    How to Recover Bitcoin Gold

    Every fork of Bitcoin brings uncertainty.  Uncertainty of value change, long term commitment of the fork, and how value may fluctuate over time.  For us Bitcoin owners, one of the big challenges if figuring out how to claim and recover the forked coin.  Remember that when...

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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...