Mobile ABV Widget

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I was reminded that I made this mobile friendly Alcohol by Volume widget the other day. It uses basic slider or text inputs to do the calculations associated with finding the ABV in your beer/wine/cider. I made it because I couldn’t find an easier one online. It uses basic jQuery UI mobile components. You can… Read more »

Ember on Apache

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Ran into this recently and it reminded me of how WordPress does URL permalink routing. Since Ember routes are handled by the index this helps Ember on Apache route to links, especially when you are coming directly to a link or deep linking. This should go in the root .htaccess file in the same way… Read more »

Validate AMP pages – New Relic

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If you are looking to validate your AMP pages there is a nice tool provided by the AMPproject here. https://validator.ampproject.org/. One of the things that may cause problems with AMP validation is the inclusion of New Relic JS in the head and footer of AMP pages. If you have a new relic instance running you may… Read more »

Analytics for AMP

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If you are working on adding AMP pages to your site or using a WordPress plugin like AMP for WordPress with Yoast SEO Amp, remember that your Google Analytics needs to get wrapped in a amp-analytics tag to be properly displayed.

Strava API!

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I like cycling! I like Strava!! I like APIs!!!. All right lets make some stuff. API link http://strava.github.io/api/ Well not so fast. First you have to find the API key stuff inside of Strava. Not as easy as you would think. You can find the developer page here. http://labs.strava.com/developers/ but that doesn’t have anything about setting up an… Read more »

WordPress 4.4 and missing images

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If you have upgraded your WordPress to 4.4 and have a secure HTTPS URL, you might be experiencing image problems due to a mixed content URL message in the browser. Some browsers will display the content and give you a message that it is mixed and some will block the content all together. The new… Read more »

Magic Mouse keeps disconnecting from bluetooth – FIX

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F**king MOUSE! If you have been having trouble with your Apple Magic Mouse or keyboard and it has been driving you bonkers like these people. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2217770?tstart=0  You might start to look at the other devices and Apps around you that might be causing the problem. My Apple Magic Mouse had been working perfectly fine for years… Read more »

Inbox and Authenticator App

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Kinda strange that the Google Authenticator app can copy a code from it’s iPhone App but the new Inbox App for iPhone can’t paste that code into the 2 part authentication screen. hmm shouldn’t these work better together?

Mobile first or age before beauty

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Mobile first for email. Oh course. Right? There are more mobile devices accessing your content, why wouldn’t it be mobile first? Well because mobile doesn’t need any help. It is the faster more nimble sibling to it’s slower desktop and browser based elders. Mobile first means that the styles in the head are for desktop…. Read more »