Since the changes to the pricing of Google Map’s Javascript Geocoding API, where the cost of running services using them has increased up to 14 times the previous rates, I have been playing around with alternative services such as LocationIQ and Mapbox. LocationIQ has the simplest API to set up, and it seems to be … Continue reading “Comparison of Javascript Geocoding API”
Here are some tips to writing plugins with URL rewrites so that you get prettier variables instead of URL strings that are harder to read. Plus there maybe an SEO value to having more professional looking URLs. Watch out for any Plugins like Yoast that Re-write things If you have Yoast installed make sure that … Continue reading “Tips for Writing a WordPress Plug-in With URL Rewrites”
So I have been trying to decrease the latency on one of my hobby websites and I noticed on Pingdom that there was a consistent 250 ms time slot on DNS. My website at the time after a lot of tweaking was loading at about 1 – 1.5 secods, so that 200ms was a pretty … Continue reading “DNS Speed Increases on CloudFlare Free DNS”
I searched around and it wasn’t super obvious, but apparently with the new Gutenberg editor, you can insert inline javascript by adding an HTML Block. The downside is that by default there is no syntax highlighting, but it’s simple and FAST. No more fiddling around with silly plugins to get javascript on to your page. … Continue reading “How to insert inline Javascript in WordPress Block with Gutenberg Editor”
I’ve been seeing emails and tweets flying around that Squarespace’s subscription products have been double charging customers regardless of their purchase date. In addition, if these early charges fail twice, the customers current subscription is automatically cancelled. This is a terrible problem for all users of Squarespace’s subscription services to deal with. If you are … Continue reading “Squarespace Subscription Service Problems! Webmasters check with your customers.”
A few months ago, I was fresh on the beat trying to get a few new projects stood up on Laravel. I was having a few issues with manually setting up the server blocks on Nginx so I decided to go the easy route and pay for a temporary subscription on Laravel Forge, which is … Continue reading “Canceled Laravel Forge Subscription and SSL Certifications aren’t renewing?”
TLDR; try pulling the battery out and putting it back in. EDIT TLDR; My phone started to do the screen flickering thing. I followed the directions to bake the motherboard which worked for a little bit. I ended up buying a new phone. Recently, the Bluetooth radio on my LG G3 started to turn off … Continue reading “LG G3 Bluetooth Turning Off and Won’t Stay On”
I hope this post helps someone else out. On Monday, I had page on another website go viral via a Reddit post, and it briefly hit the front page (whooo #19 on r/all at around noon). It sounds great right? Well, I noticed this as I was sitting in an airport ready to fly back … Continue reading “Surviving Reddit Front Page on A Digital Ocean Droplet”
Sumproduct is powerful Excel formula to multiply 2 or more paired ranges (aka arrays or lists) together and sum the product. This is most commonly used in areas like payroll where you have a list of people, their hours worked, and their pay rate. If you wanted to get the total payroll for the period you have … Continue reading “How to Use Sumproduct to Divide instead of Multiply”
You probably won’t come into this situation very often where you have a Windows computer/server running PHP. Basically this is a web-service that allows the user to trigger a VBS script bu posting a variable to a web service. The web service then takes that information and runs the VBS script after updating the database … Continue reading “Trigger VBS Script via PHP”