Cool local photo and outdoors site
This one: https://www.orangecountyoutdoors.com Has some great photos and videos of the local area. Nice list of hikes.
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WordPress Manual Site Migration to Local
This is my preferred procedure for bringing a remote site to my Local server for development. Requirements Local – https://localwp.com/ File system access for both source and destination websites. phpMyAdmin access on source website. Backup Procedure Access the file system of the source website and download a copy of the site’s wp-content folder. You can
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CSS Resources
This post is a placeholder for some resources I have been studying as keeping everything alive in my browser tabs is becoming burdensome and has always been fragile in the first place. CSS Grid Jen Simmons – Layout land Videos on CSS Grid Layout Land YouTube channel Rachael Andrews Grid by Example Mozilla – Firefox
Modern CSS
Recently I have been spending time re-learning my approach to CSS. I was prompted to do this by the urging of my friend, Chris Melby, who nagged and shamed me into learning CSS grid for layout. So finally I found the time to look at this and it has become a true eye opener. I
Setting up SSL Manually via CPanel
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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Reflecting on the joys of npx
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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Customizing HTML Input placeholder
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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React: The Second Form of setState
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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