2017 – Mike's home page

Responsive Photo Album

2017-07-052017-07-05 by mike

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

Does Sears.com stand a chance in hell of competing with Amazon?

2017-06-242017-06-24 by mike

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 […]

Piping shell commands

2017-03-292017-03-29 by mike

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 […]

Most used shell commands

2017-03-292017-03-29 by mike

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 […]