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Broken Link Checker
Broken Link Checker by Steven Vachon is an outstanding Node.js-powered utility for recursively checking for broken links on a website. Broken links lead to bad user experiences and mistrust -- two things that can cost you money and other types of conversion. The broken link checker...
Online Conference: Designing for the Internet of Things
Getting away to conferences can be difficult: travel, booking a hotel, getting your employer to pay for it, and everything that goes with it. I wanted to share with you that my amazing sponsor O'Reilly is offering a low-cost online conference: Designing for...
Recursive Find from Command Line
Probably a dozen times a day I need to search any given project for specific code keywords. Most of the time it's within a specific project but then there are times where I don't remember which directory or project the specific text is -- from my blog to my many...
Apply to 100 Tech Companies with 1 Application
Indeed.com, the number 1 job site in the world, has created a special site just for tech: Indeed Prime. Indeed Prime is designed to connect top technical candidates with the best tech employers. It is currently focused on matching software engineers, UX/UI designers, data...
‘openssl/opensslv.h’ file not found
Every system update is an adventure when you're a software engineer. We do everything we can to use virtual machines so that we have (almost) complete control of the environment but sometimes you simply need to work on your host system. Everything goes great until you update your...
Create a 3D Panorama Image with A-Frame
In the five years I've been at Mozilla I've seen some awesome projects. Some of them very popular, some of them very niche, but none of them has inspired me the way the MozVR team's work with WebVR and A-Frame project have. A-Frame is a community project...
Get WiFi Password from Command Line
I met Guillermo Rauch several years ago in the #mootools-dev room on IRC. He jumped into the MooTools project and made great things happen; he also coded MooTools' plugins forge. Since then he's gone on to create amazing things, most recently releasing HyperTerm, an excellent terminal app...
Create WebPage Screenshots with Node.js and SlimerJS
Last week I featured PhantomJS, a headless WebKit tool, which allows for taking screenshots, automating events on the page, and so on. PhantomJS is an excellent tool that does so much but being locked into the WebKit engine doesn't help if you want to test other rendering engines like...
Create and Compare Webpage Screenshots with Wraith
Last week I wrote about using PhantomJS to create screenshots of webpages. I still find it amazing that we can so quickly and easily create screenshots of a web page using a bit of server side JavaScript. A reader brought to my attention a tool that takes...
Get Ethereum Value from Command Line
Last year I got big into Bitcoin; today I own a few dozen bitcoin and am loving my return. Recently I've been hearing big things about Ethereum, another cryptocurrency. Ethereum is in its infancy and has hit some troublesome times recently due to a hack but...