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    Excellent Resources for Web Professionals

    All web professionals, including web designers and developers, are looking every moment for ways to get the projects done faster, to respect deadlines, to deliver excellent quality and finally to have happy customers. This showcase is about excellent resources that will help you all achieve these...

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    Fix git After High Sierra Upgrade

    Every major operating system upgrade is a grand adventure.  No matter the vendor or how vanilla you keep your system:  stuff is going to break.  This was very much the case with git when I upgraded my MacBook Pro to High Sierra. After the upgrade I tried...

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    Convert JPG, PNG, and Animated GIF to WEBP

    New image formats like WEP and MOZJPEG will be a major boost to load time on the web.  The majority of page load and render time is usually attributed to unoptimized images, so these new formats will make both mobile and desktop load times faster.  I've...

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    Create Context Menu Items in Mac Finder

    As much as I like exercising my command line skills, for many tasks I'd rather click a time or two.  The problem is that yarn install, brew install, and other package managers don't come with UI extending capabilities...so knowledgable people like us need to find a...

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    How to checksum

    Many of us see the term checksum and checksum outputs frequently but don't really take the time to run them -- oftentimes we simply trust the file we've downloaded is in working order and from the original source.  This past weekend when I was attempting to...

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    Patch Super Dram World

    My recent dive into retro gaming has opened my eyes to how much time and effort still goes into playing console games that are as old as I am.  The basic challenge has gone out of these games, understandably, so players have improvised new goals like...

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    Show Hidden Files in Mac Finder

    Setting up a new machine is a great time for me to write blog posts about configuration settings that I'd forgotten to document.  Much of the time I refer back to this post to figure out how I did things like Add Dock Separators and...

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    Play Wii Games on Mac

    I was one of those guys that bought the Wii off of eBay shortly after its release at a scalper's ransom.  For months my roommates and I would drink beer, talk trash, and play Wii Sports bowling for hours on end.  Of course the Wii never...

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    Play GameCube Games on Mac or PC

    My current obsession with retro gaming has brought me to creating a RetroPie on Raspberry Pi, a Recalbox on Raspberry Pi, playing retro games on Mac with OpenEmu, and exploring how to play Sony Playstation games within OpenEmu.  My newest adventure has...

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    Node EADDRINUSE (Address Already in Use) Error

    Every once in a while my MacBook Pro freaks out and a process goes rogue.  This oftentimes happens when I'm working on the excellent debugger.html project; I attempt to start the server side of the debugger and suddenly I'm hit with an error that resembles the...