I was looking for a quick way to reference PHP documentation from within Vim. The PHP Manual Vim Plugin allows me to do just that.
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Collapsible Section in GitHub Issue
I spend a lot of time working in issue trackers (e.g. GitHub), which involves writing a lot of markdown. Sometimes, perhaps I write too much information and it would be nice to allow the person reading to optionally skip some details. Traditionally, I accomplish this with a “Summary” section but now with collapsible sections in GitHub Issues, I can write even tidier comments.
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Prevent WordPress Auto Embed
In one of my other posts I am displaying some URLs on their own line as part of the content however the WordPress oEmbed functionality is turning these into rich HTML. I was able to suppress this by wrapping the URLs in HTML span tags.
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Full Post on Blog Archive
On a WordPress project, I wanted to display the full post on the blog archive unless a manual excerpt had been created for the post (in which case I wanted to use the manual excerpt). Here is the code I used to make this happen.
Google Suite Catch-All Email Address Not Working
On Tuesday October 9, 2018 my G Suite Catch-All Email Address stopped working. Fortunately, I noticed rather quickly and found the best way to enable it again was to “turn it off, and back on again”. I’ve made notes about exactly how I did that in case others (or future me), finds it necessary.
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Curl Get Redirect
When creating 301 redirects, I often want to check multiple URLs quickly from the command line (to avoid the manual clicking in the browser and browser caching of results). I’ve written this script to speed up my process.
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grep inside gzipped files
When faced with a folder full of gzipped files, I found I was unable to use my usual go to program grep to search for text in the files. However, zgrep came to my rescue.
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SSH ignoring SSH Key
Setting up your computer to allow you to SSH in using SSH keys in place of passwords is magical however there are times I want to SSH in without using the SSH keys I have setup. By setting the “PubkeyAuthentication” key to “no”, you can do this.
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Git Cherry-pick
I see lots of people get themselves into trouble when using git cherry-pick. By removing the commit from the source branch after cherry-picking, I’ve been able to avoid many of these problems.
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CSS Pulse Animation
Sometimes it amazes me the powerful things we can do with CSS. Recently, I needed to make an element pulse (i.e. grow and shrink repeatedly). I was able to do this with a few lines of CSS without using any JavaScript.