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Building a WordPress Weather Widget Plugin with OpenWeatherMap API 2

Jan

7

2025

Today, I’ll break down a WordPress plugin that I created (with a little help from Claude.ai), this is a simple yet attractive weather widget using the OpenWeatherMap API and animated weather icons Meteocons . This plugin allows WordPress site owners to display current weather conditions for any location with a clean, modern display, just enough ...

Fetch your Reddit posts,comments to a file using Go 2

Jan

19

2024

I have posted lots of content on Reddit and I would like to make a copy of of these locally, just to have a local record and make it easier to search my posts. There’s a couple of ways to do this, one method is simply Ask Reddit [email protected]., they provide an official Data Request ...

Best video summary of how ChatGPT / LLM work

May

1

2023

If you search the web you’ll find lots of summaries about how ChatGPT and in general , however there’s an excellent Youtube video from ByteByte Go Channel linked below that does an excellent easy to understand light technical overview of how ChatGPT (and most other Large Language Models) work.

simple script to watch for file changes on Linux

Mar

22

2023

Its a pretty common exercise in Linux/Unix shell programming to monitor a particular folder for file changes, typically the addiiton or change of a file. There’s a variety fo ways to do it , the more common approach is to use. In Linux, we can use the inotify interface to monitor a directory or a file. We do this ...

Best modern 2024 HTML (free) website templates and designs 6

Mar

19

2023

Designing a modern (responsive) HTML web page is not a trivial task, not only do you need to have a good sense of design and an artistic flare, but there’s a wide assortment of technical items (fonts, css styling, javascript components, etc.) that need to be implemented to meet your or your clients demand for ...

How to Rsync between two folders automatically on file changes 3

Mar

13

2023

A common usage of rsync is to copy files from one location to another, rsync is the successor of scp command . However, there are some advantages that rsync has over scp: Incremental transfer: rsync can transfer only the differences between two files, which makes it faster and more efficient than scp. This is particularly ...

Keeping Things Running: Mastering Background Processes in Linux

Mar

5

2023

In the world of Linux, sometimes you need tasks to run indefinitely without hogging your terminal. This is where background processes come into play! They allow you to continue using your terminal while long-running operations quietly execute in the background. There are three primary ways to achieve this: 1. The “&” Operator: This is the ...

Create ssh-copy-id script for Windows

Feb

21

2023

Those of us who use linux with keyless logins and ssh , usually find the utility ssh-copy-id as a convenient way to copy the ssh ke into the authorized keys files of the destination server. This works great on Linux systems, but windows (and also Mac) don’t have a native version fo ssh-copy-id, of course ...

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