Setting up SSL within my personal web properties was long overdue. My hosting does not directly support free SSL certificates via Let’s Encrypt, so I ended up using SSL for Free (ZeroSSL under the hood) to create and verify the certificate. Creating the certificate was a simple process. You first register an account using your […]
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I like to keep my local system clean so I avoid installing global packages whenever possible. I also like using virtual machines to do my development. Currently I am using vagrant for my personal and freelance work. I also like to keep my vagrant boxes clean. I set up simple provisioning scripts and add only
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I needed to create a placeholder for an HTML form input element that included a red asterisk for the required fields. I knew right away that I could not simply use input::placeholder to create this effect; although it could be used to customize the placeholder text font-size and color. I found this answer and demo
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I had a simple enough problem to solve: Create a counter that increments, decrements, and resets in React. Of course with people looking over my shoulder while I am coding I often don’t create things that I am particularly proud of, but generally I get working code. Here is a slightly cleaned up version of
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