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Everything you wanted to know about Apollo Guidance Computer … great talk on details of 1st moon landing.

Feb

12

2021

Came across a great YouTube talk on the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) and its role in the first moon landing.. The AGC is a historic piece of technology that got us to the moon. In a day and age (1960’s) when computers took up an entire room, this custom made piece of hardware and software ...

saving ContentEditable HTML using PHP simple example 7

Dec

21

2019

HTML supports (in most browsers) the contentEditable attribute which allows you to dynamically change a web page(s) content by simply editing the page, think of it like a WYSIWYG editor , but built-in to the browser. The purpose of this post is to show you how you can use this to create a simple, but ...

web page hot reload in plain JavaScript + Apache & PHP 4

Apr

29

2019

Hot re-loading, that is automatically updating the web page, when its content changes on the server, into the browser is a convenient developer aid for modern tooling like, webpack, AngularJS, ReactJS, VueJS etc. I created super simple way by just adding one JavaScript include at the bottom of your file and it works with a ...

Javascript Server Sent Events SSE easy tutorial demo of (EventSource) 4

Apr

5

2019

This easy to follow tutorial will show you how to stream server data (sometimes called SSE’s, Server Sent Events) , in real-time to your browser. Using Javascript’s EventSource API interface we can seamlessly update and display on a web page real-time server-sent data all without the complexities of setting up a web socket server. Why ...

my Retirement calculator (javascript) – can you retire now? 2

Apr

3

2019

I decided to create a modern, easy to use and practical on-line retirement calculator, and I open-sourced it too! There are ton’s of these available all over the internet, but none really quite had enough details or the specific details I wanted to make them useful. So I approached this retirement calculator from the FIRE ...

Top 10 incredibly useful Javascript / Jquery code snippets 2

Mar

21

2019

Here’s my list of 10 useful JavaScript & some Jquery code snippets. The code snippets below are pretty useful and find myself reusing them again and again in all sorts of situations. I have created full-page examples of these snippets, go grab them over at my [icon name=”github” class=”” unprefixed_class=””] Javascript Github Repo Note: For ...

Log events via PHP to database with Windows or Linux command line

Feb

13

2019

Here’s a neat example (for Linux and Windows systems) of how to easily capture (log) and store the result of some script or program or really anything, in a central database table. Sure you could use just a log file, but spinning up an instance of MySQL (or SQLite) is trivial, and in the long ...

Deepmind’s AlphaStar crushes best StarCraft 2 players

Jan

24

2019

So today’s Deepmind’s StartCraft AI, named AlphaStar neural network AI thoroughly trounced a couple of top StarCraft players. The first set of matches against Dario ” TLO ” Wünsch (StarCraft II player from Germany. TLO is a former Brood War and Supreme Commander player currently playing for Team Liquid.). AlphaStar beat TLO 5 games to ...

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