Category Archives: Cool
Dynamic Autocomplete with AlpineJS and (Almost) No Code
I’m in the process of adding some new features to a web application I created several years ago. It’s an app that makes it easy for a handful of non-technical users to manage users and groups in a third-party system. It’s a multipage app that doesn’t use a lot of JavaScript, but where it does […]
The Samsung Desktop Experience
I stumbled on this Gizmodo article last night and learned something about my phone that I didn’t know. Apparently every Samsung phone (at least in the Galaxy series) since the Galaxy S8 has a feature built into it called DeX, or the Desktop Experience, that allows you to use the device as a desktop by […]
xBrowserSync
I started using Xmarks to sync my bookmarks between multiple browsers and computers so long ago that it may have still been called Foxmarks when I started using it. While I had a handful of problems with it from time to time–mainly with syncs failing and leaving my bookmarks corrupted in a given browser–the tool […]
Hi, I’m a Mac! (or It’s a Unix System! I know this!)
I finally gave in and bought myself a Mac. My five-year-old Toshiba laptop served me well, but with several pieces of the plastic case broken off and what appear to be memory issues slowing things down, I decided it was time for an upgrade. At more than three times the price of a similarly specced Windows-based machine, getting […]
Awesome Android App of the Day: Pixlr-O-Matic
With so many low-cost, high-megapixal digital cameras on the market these days, we’d expect to be seeing lots of high-res, vividly colored pictures everywhere. Despite the technology, however, the current rage is the retro look–with everything from grainy black-and-whites, washed-out colors of the Instamatic era, and pictures that look like they survived a flood being […]