The ability to download media on the internet almost feels like a lost art. When I was in my teens, piracy of mp3s, movies, and just about everything else

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How to Add a Header to a curl Request

curl is one of those great utilities that's been around seemingly forever and has endless use cases. These days I find myself using curl to batch download

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Case Insensitive CSS Attribute Selector

CSS selectors never cease to amaze me in how powerful they can be in matching complex patterns. Most of that flexibility is in parent/child/sibling

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How to Set Date Time from Mac Command Line

Working on a web extension that ships to an app store and isn't immediately modifiable, like a website, can be difficult. Since you cannot immediately

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14.05.2024

How to Retrieve WiFi Password on Windows

Remembering the WiFi password when on a guest network is never easy. Even worse is when it's no longer posted and someone else is asking you for it.

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02.05.2024

How to Fix: Windows WASD Keys Reversed with Arrow Keys

This past weekend I had the opportunity to be what every father wants, if only for a moment: the "cool dad". My wife was out of town and my youngest son

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16.04.2024

HTML popover Attribute

Modals have been an important part of websites for two decades. Stacking contents and using fetch to accomplish tasks are a great way to improve UX on

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26.03.2024

Get Started in AI and NFTs with the Limewire API

AI media creation has expanded to incredible video art and a host of other important improvements, and LimeWire is leading the way in creating an awesome

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19.03.2024

I'm So Old: Web Edition

Time can be a funny thing. I still remember discovering HTML, CSS, and JavaScript coding. I still remember my first college programming course. I still

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07.02.2024

Detect Caps Lock with JavaScript

Anyone is capable of having their caps lock key on at any given time without realizing so. Users can easily spot unwanted caps lock when typing in most

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06.02.2024

How to Override width and height HTML attributes with CSS

One of the HTML elements that frequently comes into collision with CSS is the img element. As we learned in Request Metrics' Fixing Cumulative Layout

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Fixing Cumulative Layout Shift Problems on DavidWalshBlog

Over 50 thousand developers visit DavidWalshBlog every month from around the world to learn JavaScript tricks and fix problems in their code.

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18.01.2024

Date.now()

Ask any software engineer and they'll tell you that coding date logic can be a nightmare. Developers need to consider timezones, weird date defaults, and

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17.01.2024

Extract a Number from a String with JavaScript

User input from HTML form fields is generally provided to JavaScript as a string. We've lived with that fact for decades but sometimes developers need to

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16.01.2024

Thoughts on Streaming Services: 2024 Edition

Streaming services have revolutionized content delivery, sending linear media companies into a panic as they watch traditional cable services decay.

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19.12.2023

AutoGrow Textareas with CSS

As the demands of the web change and developers experiment with different user experiences, the need for more native language improvements expands. Our

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28.11.2023

How to Play Grand Poo World 3

The underground world of creating and streaming Super Mario World-based ROM hacks continues to gain popularity. This popularity is a tribute to the

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29.10.2023

How to Get the Current Branch Name with git

Most developers spoil themselves with fun command line utilities to make their work easier and more efficient. One such command line helper allows

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AutoSave with VSCode

Visual Studio Code has taken the crown of most used text editor, at least in JavaScript spheres. VSCode is fast, feature-filled, and supports thousands of

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13.10.2023

How to Detect Failed Requests via Web Extensions

One of the best things that ever happened to t he user experience of the web has been web extensions. Browsers are powerful but extensions bring a new

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13.10.2023

Welcome to the New LimeWire: AI Media Generation

LimeWire was a staple of my youth. LimeWire was software that allowed users to share any type of file during the revolutionary days of file sharing. Fast

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14.09.2023

Unveiling 15+ Essential Tools & Resources for Web Designers and Agencies in 2023

You’ve visited countless websites, and now you’re designing your own. Stop and think for a minute about what you’ve liked and didn’t like about some of

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12.09.2023

Unveiling 15+ Essential Tools & Resources for Web Designers and Agencies in 2023

You’ve visited countless websites, and now you’re designing your own. Stop and think for a minute about what you’ve liked and didn’t like about some of

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07.09.2023

Sum an Array of Numbers with JavaScript

It's rare that I'm disappointed by the JavaScript language not having a function that I need. One such case was summing an array of numbers -- I was

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14.08.2023

JavaScript waitFor Polling

As more of the JavaScript developers write becomes asynchronous, it's only natural to need to wait for conditions to be met. This is especially true in a

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11.08.2023

queryLocalFonts

One of the larger downloads when requesting a webpage are custom fonts. There are many great techniques for lazy loading fonts to improve performance for

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07.08.2023

Use XHR/fetch Breakpoints!

Web debugging tools are so incredibly excellent these days. I remember the days where they didn't exist and debugging was a total nightmare, even for the

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17.07.2023

URL.canParse

Parsing of URLs on the client side has been a common practice for two decades. The early days included using illegible regular expressions but the

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JavaScript closest

When it comes to finding relationships between elements, we traditionally think of a top-down approach. We can thank CSS and

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05.07.2023

ChatGPT via WYSIWYG

Artificial intelligence applications have hit like a massive wave over this past year, with ChatGPT being the most prominent. ChatGPT can take any written

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26.06.2023

JavaScript: Reverse Arrays

Manipulating data is core to any programming language. JavaScript is no exception, especially as JSON has token over as a prime data delivery format. One

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Confessions of a Web Developer XX

It's been quite a while since I've gotten a few things off of my chest and since I'm always full of peeves and annoyances I thought it was time to

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How to Create a Screen Recording with Quicktime

Creating screen recordings is an essential skill for web developers. Screen recordings can illustrate new features, bugs, or a variety of other ideas. I'm

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09.05.2023

Restart Mac From Command Line

Restarting and shutting down a computer remotely is a frequent task for remote system administrators. As someone that writes many shell scripts, I also

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08.05.2023

How to Use Your Domain on Bluesky

Bluesky is a hot new social networking platform that functions like Twitter from Twitter's original founder. New users are flooding into the platform as a

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10 Great Multipurpose WordPress Themes

Multipurpose themes are flexible WordPress templates that can be used to create virtually any kind of website. They are often best-sellers, and because

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How to Blur Faces in a Video from Command Line

Privacy is always incredibly important, especially with visual media where you may not have the permission of individuals in the video. If you're filming

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CSS content-visibility

The CSS language is full of small gaps which are frustrating to navigate. Between CSS properties to hide a container and its contents, there is still room

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18.04.2023

How to Get a Computer's Hardware ID

Cheating in online games is a huge issue these days -- just ask anyone playing PUBG. Cheaters aren't difficult for players to spot but vendors oftentimes

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JavaScript Array Group

Managing, sorting, and manipulating data with JavaScript is a skill we've often delegated to third party libraries like lodash. As the JavaScript language

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How to Download a YouTube Video or Channel

How to Add a Header to a curl Request

Case Insensitive CSS Attribute Selector

How to Set Date Time from Mac Command Line

How to Retrieve WiFi Password on Windows

How to Fix: Windows WASD Keys Reversed with Arrow Keys

HTML popover Attribute

Get Started in AI and NFTs with the Limewire API

I'm So Old: Web Edition

Detect Caps Lock with JavaScript

How to Override width and height HTML attributes with CSS

Fixing Cumulative Layout Shift Problems on DavidWalshBlog

Date.now()

Extract a Number from a String with JavaScript

Thoughts on Streaming Services: 2024 Edition

AutoGrow Textareas with CSS

How to Play Grand Poo World 3

How to Get the Current Branch Name with git

AutoSave with VSCode

How to Detect Failed Requests via Web Extensions

Welcome to the New LimeWire: AI Media Generation

Unveiling 15+ Essential Tools & Resources for Web Designers and Agencies in 2023

Unveiling 15+ Essential Tools & Resources for Web Designers and Agencies in 2023

Sum an Array of Numbers with JavaScript

JavaScript waitFor Polling

queryLocalFonts

Use XHR/fetch Breakpoints!

URL.canParse

JavaScript closest

ChatGPT via WYSIWYG

JavaScript: Reverse Arrays

Confessions of a Web Developer XX

How to Create a Screen Recording with Quicktime

Restart Mac From Command Line

How to Use Your Domain on Bluesky

10 Great Multipurpose WordPress Themes

How to Blur Faces in a Video from Command Line

CSS content-visibility

How to Get a Computer's Hardware ID

JavaScript Array Group

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