I'm a designer turned web developer with a disability: Multiple Sclerosis. Technology helped save my career and my livelihood, so I want to pass along the knowledge.
Regex of the Day
Format HTML Bullets All at Once | Regex of the Day #shortsBefore you format each HTML bullet list line by line, try this awesome find/replace regex trick. Add all of your opening and closing “li” tags in seconds.___...YouTube Writers frequently hand over a document that needs to be formatted
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Here's a great little code snippet that can teach you a couple of concepts in python: filename = "test.html" extension = filename.split('.')[-1] The breakdown We've started with a filename. This can be anything, even a filename with multiple periods in it.
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A continuation of Too Many Projects at Work. While changing the color scheme for each project is a great way to go, I've found this to be even easier for me to both recognize which project I'm on, and switch between projects with less friction. I
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I went to update Ghost, but got this error: I tried running the following so that I could see my memory usage: df -h Which gave me something like this (data has all been modified, this is just an illustration) ...but I couldn't find anything that would suggest
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Every marketer or team-lead needs one of these handy. You've got a list of names for a contest or a drawing and you need to choose one person at random. However, to save on trees, we're keeping this all digital. Here's how you can
Regex of the Day
This regex of the day is great for helping you format content into HTML. Say we need to put paragraph tags around the text that doesn't already have an HTML tag. The pattern we want is whenever we start the line without a less-than bracket. We'll
Regex of the Day
This regex of the day is great for catching double word typos. First we're going to set up a group of characters then the forward slash, one matches whatever was most recently matched by this group. (.+)\1 Let's turn on regex. Now you can see where
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Have you ever gone to the grocery store without a list? I've done it more times than I care to admit. And honestly, I have to hang my head in a little bit of shame because too many times, I've thought to myself, "I need
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Have you ever stared at two windows on your computer, comparing versions? Maybe it's because you were copying something over from one source to another with different formatting, but the text needed to be the same (e.g. PDF to html). Or maybe something isn't right
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The company I work for has several products and each has its own site. Although they don't need much work very often, there are plenty of times when I will be working on two or three of them in a day. As these sites have all come under
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What happens when you aren't able to effectively use your mouse? Is it really possible to get everything done on a computer that you need to just by using the keyboard? The short answer is yes....and no Keyboard shortcuts are amazing and there are tons of lists
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The quest for productivity drives me to collect ideas, systems, shortcuts and technology. These don’t all apply universally to the diverse array of jobs out there, but I do think that most of them can provide you some value. It’s up to you to figure out how the