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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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