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clean and simple PHP multi-language app scheme

Mar

7

2025

Just a very short post on how to quickly and easily display multi-lingual web page content in basic PHP web pages or apps for a variety of languages. Of course you can run always webpage through a translation app, but this more often than not have unintended results as JavaScript heavy apps generally get corrupted ...

Self-hosted Dynamic DNS Updater: A Quick Guide

Feb

22

2025

Dynamic DNS (DDNS) is essential if you’re hosting services from home (self-hosted) where your IP address changes periodically. Namecheap,CloudFlare ,Godaddy (as well as others but not ALL ) offer a straightforward DDNS service for their domains that allow you to programmatically update the DNS records Here’s how to set it up. Step 1: Enable Dynamic ...

Keeping your Screen active… DIY Arduino-Powered Mouse Jiggler

Feb

3

2025

Ever wished your mouse had a mind of its own? Well, with a little Arduino magic, you can make it dance across your screen in a variety of patterns! Here’s a simple Arduino sketch hat does just this, and I’m excited to share my insights and explorations with you. You can always just buy ready ...

Building a WordPress Weather Widget Plugin with OpenWeatherMap API 4

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 3

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 ...

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