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Programming Horror Stories in Six Words

29 Sep 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark

This comes to you from my time as a professional Web developer in the Research and Development (R&D) department of a particular corporation. One of the developers printed and put up a "Programming Horror Stories in Six Words" page on the team's notic...

How To Know It’s Time To Change Your Website

24 Sep 2023 3 minute read 0 comments VitalyTennant.com

If you run a business, you need to have a website. This is no longer negotiable; without a website, you will look untrustworthy to potential customers, and that’s only if they find your business in the first place. After all, your website is your bes...

Learning about web development / first post [ENG/FR]

9 Sep 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Phanty

    Link to French version --> Cliquez ici pour la Version Française. Why this choice? Well, here we are.For years now, I've wanted to change professions and learn to code for a living. This plan had always been thwarted by various practical as...

TIL: Since I have a Hive address, I also have a D.Buzz account

23 Aug 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark

TIL: Since I've got a Hive address and wallet (which, frankly, has gone unused for years), I've also got a D.Buzz account about which I previously knew nothing. I guess I've found a Web3 replacement for Twatter, without even meaning to. (I do like Ma...

CryptoVision - When community is the main goal of a project

31 Jul 2023 2 minute read 1 comment babesugarbunny

The internet is full of different interesting projects that is too good to not be shared with others. So today I am going to tell you a bit about the CryptoVision project!CryptoVision (CVN) is a community focused project that wants to create a space...

Today, I Learned CSS Grid in Under Fifteen Minutes (and You can Too): The Basics

20 Jul 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark

Yes, that's right. It took me less than fifteen minutes to learn CSS grid. You can do likewise, without having to sit through a video that's over an hour long (assuming you already know some CSS). It's not some complicated addition to the language, b...

How to Host Your Own Podcast/Vlog (and why it Might be a Bad Idea)

18 Jul 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark

As some of you may know, I have been putting in time and effort, on and off, to create, edit and upload video content to YouTube for a vlog. Recently, a potential business client/employer asked me to make a short (approximately two minute) recording...

Thread.Join()?: No, I will not be joining Threads (nor the Metaverse nor InstaHarm, on which it is built)

12 Jul 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark

To be honest, when I first heard of/saw mention of Threads, I was confused. That's because I immediately thought of multi-threading in programming, particularly Java. However, I quickly learned that it's supposedly "the next Twatter-killer that's goi...

What is Threads? Instagrams Team launches the NEW Twitter

6 Jul 2023 1 minute read 0 comments bluekasumi

‘Threads’ is a new app developed by Instagram (Meta) to share texts, photos, videos and real-time conversation. Will it be more popular than Twitter? Early adopters and Inluencers are joining the next hyped social media app. On July 5th ‘Threads’ was...

I already regret my decision to go multi-lingual in internationalising my software (and I haven't even ported it yet).

4 Jul 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark

A while ago (on the scale of years), I created a word-finder/unscrambler utility app for myself that proved quite useful. This was before Wordle was a popular time-wasting thing that it is now. (As far as I know, there's no payout for playing or reac...