How to Manually Update Google Chrome Extensions

Chrome is my browser of choice primarily because of the speed and extensions. Extensions allow you to extend the functionality of your browser. One of my favorites is Weather Extension . I often have users asking how...

Vue Skycons

I’m a big fan of the weather icons from Dark sky called Skycons . They are animated and are easy to customize. I wanted to be able to use them in my Weather and WeatherTab extensions which are written using VueJs. I...

How to Show Hidden File on a Mac

In the past, the only way I knew how to show hidden files on a mac was to run a terminal command which I had the commands show and hide aliased to. This works great but is not the easiest command to remember and you...

How to Unshorten Short Urls

Several months ago I created a site called LinkUnshorten with the goal to guard people against short links from sites like goo.gl, bit.ly, tinyurl etc. Url shorteners are great but they do have the risk of...

Speed Up Key Presses (macOS)

A recent episode of Syntax , the podcast about web development from Wes Bos and Scott Tolinski , a tip was mentioned on speeding up key presses on macOS. I have always been annoyed at how slow the cursor moves when...

Chrome Extension Keyboard Shortcuts

Wanted to share a quick tip on using keyboard shortcuts to activate chrome extensions. Up until now it never occurred to me to use a keyboard shortcut to activate an extension, but thanks to a user of my weather...

Backup Multiple Laravel Sites

If you’re like me and use Laravel Forge to host multiple websites on a single Digital Ocean server, then you may have run into the issue where you need to backup all the sites on your server. You could run Spatie...

Text Replacement iOS

Wanted to share a quick tip that I use every day on my iPhone. If there is a sentence or phrase you type often, you should turn this into a text replacement. For example, I use @@ which is replaced with my email...

Nginx Split Test A/B

Have you ever wanted to split test multiple pages on your website? You could use a WordPress plugin called Simple Page Tester but you are limited to testing two urls at a time. After some searching, I came across a...

Side Project Tech Stack

I want to start this post by saying this is my preference on the frameworks and technologies that I use for most of my apps. Depending on your experience and goals you should experiment to see what works for you. For...