Using Background Real Estate Creatively

I recently found out that macarons and macaroons are similar but at the same time different. “Hey Jackson, this is supposed to be a site for development, not home economics.” Well, touche. The real reason I bring this up is because of their statically placed background image. Just take a look at it, go to the page. As you scroll down, it scrolls left and right. What a great use of otherwise boring realestate! Continue reading

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HTML Forms: Beat spam without using special software / captcha

On a website we do at work there is a contact form that keeps getting blasted by a spam bot. It’s useless because the spam only goes to two people but regardless it’s annoying so I’m looking for a way to remove spamability. During my research I found this article which explains a clever way to beat the spam bots without using captcha forms or any kind of special software.

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Google Charts

I’m not sure how I missed this one, but Google does a Google Charts project which is a collection of html5 friendly charts. I’m glad to see someone maintaining a project like this.

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VIM Shortcuts

If, like me, you’re only an occassional VIM user then you probably know that VIM comes with an outrageous amount of flexibility and is also loaded with shortcuts. You know these things about VIM, but have no clue on how to use the shortcuts and have no intention to figure them all out. Today I needed to yank (copy) 4 lines and had no idea how to. That’s where this handy list of VIM shortcuts comes in handy. I’ll be using that for some time now! Continue reading

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