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Pain Management: CB2 Receptors

Saturday March 29 2025

I was searching for a natural solution to help my wife achieve better sleep. My search drifted towards Cannabidiol (CBD), largely because I tried CBD several years ago. It worked, but was too difficult and too expensive to pursue on a regular basis. In my searches, I uncovered some information that...

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Get Rid Of SPAM From Your Forms

Wednesday January 1 2025

One of my clients was targeted by spammers. The business was receiving upwards of 500 emails each day, plus their email address was used to generate a ton of email payloads to huge mailing lists – so much so that their website was threatened to be kicked off the server. That's when they became my...

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Bulma continues its downward slide

Friday December 27 2024

Doesn't matter how many times I say it, nothing is quite as proof-positive as a screen shot of the W3 market share website as shown at the right. Yes, you read it right. Bulma CSS has 0.2% marketshare of all websites that use a CSS Framework. That also represents less than 0.1% of all websites. The...

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Back to driving part 2

Wednesday October 30 2024

I have now had "orientations" at two different companies. I have decided to join the highest ranked company (in my area) as a school bus driver. In my entire time driving a school bus, I have not been able to avoid driving a major highway (Hwy 404) and this will be no exception. I look forward to...

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Back to driving a school bus

Wednesday October 30 2024

I was a school bus driver (and trainer) until I retired Jan 1 2024. I will be returning to driving school bus, likely on December 1 2024 .... no need to ask about the reasons, I won't provide that. I am trying to work for a good company, though. I decided to look driver reviews on Indeed as a guide...

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Customizing Fontello

Sunday October 20 2024

Using Fontello is a dream. I have selected a total of 99 icons that are the core of what I used with Font Awesome. Instead of loading over 1.8 Mb of data with Font Awesome, I am able to access all the icons I need at a total of 24Kb with Fontello. That includes a minified CSS file and the font...

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Bulma CSS v1.0.2 - more bloat

Saturday October 19 2024

While working on some enhancements for my Blade CSS forms components, I found myself needing to add a few icons to the Blade CSS collection. By collection, I mean the Fontello icon groupings. If my preference is Font Awesome, why use Fontello? I gave up on Font Awesome when version 5 was released....

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Fix more useless CSS code for forms

Thursday October 17 2024

Working on Blade CSS and found myself wanting to add icons to input fields, including those where the type was declared. There are a few that don't need icons ... date, file, and number. Those have a pre-built appearance or an icon defined by the browser (date, for example, has a calendar icon at...

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input type "date" issues

Thursday October 17 2024

I've been working on PHPMailer-FVE for some time now. I came across an issue others should be aware of. Background: I am an advocate on using every possible security technique in dealing with forms and emails. In forms, I use front-end strategies and back-end strategies. Front-end usually means...

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Bootstrap staggers while Tailwind bounces

Sunday September 29 2024

Bootstrap market share falters ending with a 1.6% market share loss (78.7% one year ago, to today's 77.1%). Foundation also loses market share from 2.3% to 2.1%. Tailwind becomes a market share darling, taking their market share from 0.5% to 0.8% ... a 0.3% gain. Materialize and Materialize...

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