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My Approach to Using AI with Programming

It s pretty clear at this point that AI, in one way or another is here to stay. I imagine at some point the hype will settle, hopefully not crash and this plane will land safely in some new exotic paradise. I ve observed other developers that range from AI enthusiast to AI avoiders, and like a Read more...

AI suggested improvements to Conway’s Game of Life

Conway s Game of Life is a fun little simulator of life using cells (blocks) to represent a life form. When a given cell has the right number of neighbors it comes to life and if it has too few or too many neighbors, it dies. There are a many blog posts out there that can Read more...

What’s Been Crossing My Radar

Every so often I end up with a long list of links that I don t quite know what to do with. They re articles, blog posts, projects and discussions I ve come across on Hacker News, Slashdot, and elsewhere over the past few months. The are topics I find interesting, thought-provoking, or just worth coming back to. Read more...

Working with Translations on WordPress

These are some notes for how to set up your custom plugin and/or theme to be translation friendly. As a WordPress developer, if your custom theme has English strings that are hard coded or stored in the code base, you can set them up so they can be localized and translatable. Ultimately the files involved Read more...

Installing and Enabling SSH

I m just adding this here because every few months I need to install SSH on a Linux server. I end up googling it and going to some really annoying website with flashing ads. Update and Install sudo apt updatesudo apt upgradesudo apt install openssh-serversudo systemctl status ssh Status and Using sudo systemctl start sshsudo systemctl stop sshsudo systemctl restart ssh

Modernizing My Old iPod Classic

I ve got this shoe box in my home office closet that is full of old Raspberry Pis and other single board computers that I ve played around with over the years. This is also where my old iPods ended up. I was flipping through this box a couple weeks ago and found my iPod Classic (5th Read more...

Strange Radio Towers I Spotted on Roadtrip

I was taking a small road trip from Missouri to Iowa using I-35 and spotted something strange. Well, two things, one was a Tesla Cybertruck in the opposing lane. Which at the time of writing this post, are a rare sight to see in the Mid West. The second thing I saw was radio tower Read more...

Dump of Interesting Links

It seems like every day I find an article or blog post that grabs my attention. Most of the time this happens during the work day and I just don t have to time to stop what I m doing to read the whole article. I m creating this post/list of interesting links as a way to revist Read more...

#5FTF – January 26th 2024

Once a month at WebDevStudios we dedicate an entire day to giving back to the open-source community. It s called Five for the Future or #5FTF. Contributions can be done through bug fixes on open-source projects, answering questions on forums, providing translation services for projects and even building our own project from scratch. I used my Read more...

Open VSC with “code” command from terminal

macOS These are the steps to add the code command to your terminal on macOS to open a file or directory in Visual Studio Code. Restart the terminal and the code command should now be present. https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/setup/mac#_launching-from-the-command-line Linux (flatpak) For Fedora Linux or any other linux where VSC was installed via flatpak, just create a Read more...