Concerned about ads? being tracked as your surf the net? Read on.... For browsers, Chrome is the market leader with over 63% market share. Safari is next closest with almost 20%. The rest are all individually below 6%. That surprised me a bit, I always thought Firefox would be a market leader, but...
I had a CT scan in October 2023 along with lab tests. Both showed unexpected results. The CT scan shows "atrophy" pancreas. The report uses the words "end-stage chronic pancreatitis". At the doctor's appointment, he described it as no longer functional. I don't quite believe that, so the words I...
Although not 100% secure, my .htaccess file includes blocking all website traffic from Russia. I did that with the following (added to .htaccess file on the website): # Country: RUSSIAN FEDERATION # ISO Code: RU # Total Networks: 5,644 # Total Subnets: 41,289,032 deny from 2.57.0.0/16 deny from...
Let's handle the most obvious question first: Why minify CSS or JS? There are two reasons. The first is to reduce the size of data being transferred across the internet. Removing comments and spacing can reduce these by as much as 40% of their original size. The second is to condense the space ......
I nearly gave up after trying several HTML "prettify" tools. All work, well, sort of. Tidy is a built-in PHP feature. The documentation is poor, very poor. They describe each option in a way that doesn't really explain what the option does. Tidy, like many software tools, tries to be all things....
I started using Bulma several years ago. I have looked at alternatives, some have come and gone. I must say, I understand why someone would want to start their own package ... the problem, of course, is keeping up to date on technology changes (in both CSS, HTML and scripting languages), and code...
Displaying website pages involves structuring them with HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language). You can use a web page editor that is quite like a word processor. The underlying code structure to display the page on the internet is HTML. Over the years the rendering of HTML pages by browsers has become...
'Twas the day when CSS was useful – but not necessary. The limitations in the early days meant that it was a toss up between inline tags, styles, and floats. One CSS framework stood out. Bootstrap was popular with its float based grid system. My take on it was that Bootstrap was bloated and added...
Raw batteries (Samsung 18650's) Some delays, and never expected either. First, my garage is getting too full. Part of the problem is lack of space, part is procrastination on my part. I'm working on it slowly. To help, I've acquired a new tool chest. I'm also finally getting rid of stuff. The...
As usual with all my articles, you can click the photo in the article for a larger version. Anatomy of a bicycle – names for each part Any "builder" will tell you ... expect the unexpected. Refer to the bicycle anatomy photo at the right (photo courtesy of Wikipedia). The battery I bought...