I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
My 2009 Mac Pro has gone quite a distance with me, and as an investment it’s probably one of the highest returns on capital I’ve made given the amount of consulting work it’s churned out with me. I’ve kept it reasonably upgraded, added memory, PCI SSDs and a Radeon RX580 so it would run MacOS … Continue reading “2022 Mac Studio versus 2009 Mac Pro Review”
I spend a lot of time at my desk, and it accumulates a lot of random stuff. Random critical stuff. My wallet. Glasses. Two types of glasses sadly. The tiny Apple TV remote that sprouts little feet and hides under the mail. Along with my Bluetooth headset, multi-tool, USB drives and other bobbles that I … Continue reading “Ultimate OCD Desk Organizer”
Like many of you I’m sure, one of my sites took a little hit from Google’s June Core Web Vitals search ranking update, and I’ve been spending a lot of time digging into these number in an attempt to find a shortcut or two that might help get my metrics up and recover a few … Continue reading “Does CloudFlare’s Rocket Loader Help with Core Web Vitals? Maybe.”
As I spend more and more time in the Vue.js ecosystem, I’m developing an a much greater appreciation for the time the core team has spent developing tools that make managing the project configuration. That said, a big part of managing a Vue.js project still requires a lot of Webpack knowledge… More than I have, … Continue reading “Vue-CLI and Single File Webpack Bundles”
My front end tool chain has finally settled into something I’m getting comfortable with. But these tools don’t stand still, so the learning continues. One of the higher traffic posts on this blog has been my discussion of how I integrated Snap.svg into my Vue.js and Nuxt.js projects. I wrote that article because while it … Continue reading “Adding Snap.svg to Vue.js Projects Created with vue-cli 3.0”
If you’re a web developer you’ve probably had way too many ideas for way too many amazing projects, and you’ve promptly gone out and registered domain names for each one of them. That feels like progress, right? But before long, you’ve got a domain registrar account with 100 random domains that are auto-renewing for $16 … Continue reading “Save Money by Transferring Domain Registrations from Bluehost to Cloudflare”
When your livelihood is tied to website traffic, one of the worst things you can wake up to is an email from Google Search Console. I’m no stranger to bad news from the Big G and the non-communication and horror movie circular forward-you-to-the-right-group conversations that go along with any dialog you might think would rectify … Continue reading “How DNS Mistakes Can Score You a Google Manual Penalty”
After having been bitten quite hard by Google’s August algorithm update, I’ve been on a mission to establish a bit more EAT related to my online presence in hopes of a recovery. If you’re wondering what the heck I’m talking about, EAT is a recent bit of buzz phraseology that has those of us with … Continue reading “Eclectic Observations from Arriving Late to the LinkedIn Party”
This post may be out of date for what you need… There’s an updated article that deals with adding Snap.svg to projects created with the vue-cli 3.0 and more recent 2.x versions of Vue.js. Click here to read it! SVG is amazing, and if you’re building any custom vector graphics from your client code, one … Continue reading “Adding Snap.svg to Vue.js and Nuxt.js Projects”
For a little over a year, I’ve been running a fantastic NOC-style dashboard on the AppleTV in my office courtesy of a nifty app called Dasher. It took a little Python gymnastics, but I was able to pull data from Google Analytics, Ahrefs and Staq to assemble a consolidated view of what’s happening at DadsWorksheets.com, … Continue reading “Migrating from Dasher.tv to the AnyBoard App”
