How to View Source Code of an Extension

Browser extensions are composed of Javascript, HTML, CSS, and images. Before installing any extension I will usually review the source code. This is important to verify that an extension is not doing anything...

Is Wireless Charging that Great?

With the purchase of my new iPhone , I now had a phone that was capable of wireless charging. Yes yes, I know that Android has had wireless charging for years. I honestly didn’t think it was that great of a feature....

Set Image Src from Amazon S3

I needed to request an image from Amazon S3 using ajax so I could read the response metadata headers. At first this seemed like a simple task. The first issue I encountered was that S3 was blocking the metadata...

Weather Extension Status Page

When managing multiple websites, apps, and extensions it is important to know when a site is down before your users have to alert you. Currently, I use UptimeRobot to monitor all my websites etc. It’s a great service...

How To Find Large Files Linux

Running out of disk space on your Linux server and need to find the files taking up the most space? The du or Disk Utility command is a standard Linux command, used to check the information of disk usage of files and...

Text Replacement Not Working

With the release of iOS 12, Apple appears to have placed a 128 character limit on text replacement . At first, I thought this was a bug but it appears to be intentional. After some searching, I discovered a simple...

Curl gzip Website

If you have ever tried to curl a website and it returns a bunch of unreadable characters? It is most likely a gzip /compressed response. Here is an example of a curl request to amazon.com which returns compressed...

Add Amazon Affiliate Code to Links

If you’re a blogger and not using Amazon affiliate links, you are missing out on a great extra source of income. Unlike ads, they do not affect your readers and allow them to find the items you are...

Register Global Vue Components using Webpack

If you have ever worked on a VueJs application, you probably have noticed there are several ways to register Vue components. You have the ability to manually register each component globally or locally. This will...

Repeating Keys in macOs

Have you ever noticed that in macOs you cannot hold down a key for it to repeat? If you ever had to repetitively type the same characters over and over this can be frustrating. Strangely in Windows, this is enabled...