Here’s a few of the things I’ve done This is a responsive brochure site I created, July 2017 This is a responsive SPA I built in spring 2017. It’s a web app to display sets of photos. Node on the back end and a little jquery on the front. I was the 1st CTO at […]
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I wanted a responsive photo album unlike anything I could find, plus I prefer to host all my photos myself. So I wrote this with node on the backend and just plain javascript on the front end + just a little bit of jquery. Here’s the app: http://spa.1mikemakuch.com/ and source: https://github.com/1MikeMakuch/photoalbum
Continue readingDoes Sears.com stand a chance in hell of competing with Amazon?
So last night I surf over to Amazon to buy a couple of hex keys (aka allen wrenches). I couldn’t readily find the single items I needed (as opposed to complete sets) at Amazon so I googled around and found ’em at sears.com. Merchandise total $2.84, shipping $34.19. I went back to Amazon and found […]
Continue readingPiping shell commands
I did some looking at my shell history for the past year or so and made some casual observations, here: Most used shell commands and wanted to single out a number of commands and pipes that might be interesting to someone. What follows is a handful of commands from my shell history, from the last […]
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I remember reading that “ls” was the most commonly used shell command. Not sure why I thought about it today but, it dawned on me that I could easily calculate it directly from my shell command history. Years ago I went about configuring my shell command history options to my liking. Among several others are […]
Continue readingEmail address validation rant
This is my canned pre-written gripe to send to website’s who don’t allow all valid email addresses to be entered into their registration forms…. Dear web developer, Your website does not accept all valid email addresses in one or more forms where you allow a user to enter their email address. Importantly it does not […]
Continue readingKeyboard customization for Emacs
In order to use Emacs effectively you have to customize your keyboard bindings. You really do have to do this one way or another. For a long time I tried to use the “standard” emacs bindings but eventually I realized you really can’t be productive that way. I’ve been using Macbooks for several years now […]
Continue readingMark Winslow’s “partial list of my favorite things”
Dabney Coleman was great in Modern Problems: Mark Winslow’s “Partial list of my favorite things: Sunset from my office window. Strindberg’s women, all of them, my interview in Playboy, Mozart’s Brandenburg Concertos, collecting my $200 for passing go, Roots (said Ruts), the book, not that television horseshit”, inspired my Partial list of my grievances Other […]
Continue readingA little astronomical trivia
I was curious about a couple things and did a little surfing… Diameter of our solar system. First know that they use Astronomical Units (AU). One AU is equal the mean distance from the center of the earth to the center of the sun or 150 million kilometers, or about 92 million miles. The diameter […]
Continue readingC array subscript weirdness
$ cat test.c #include <stdio.h> int main() { int a[2]; a[0]=0;a[1]=0; 1[a] = 1; // weirdness printf(“%d %d\n”,a[0], a[1]); } $ gcc -o test test.c $ ./test 0 1 The subscript operator is commutative for what ever reason. *(a + 1) < => a[1] < => 1[a]
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