Have a family member looking to get me some family videos they had digitized, in one big file, about 80GB (they may not have optimized or know how). The need: The family member’s internet connection isn’t the best and could get disconnected at times, when this happens...
AWS HTML Forms email and database working notes
Over the last weekend I worked to get a basic working version of 2 features for a HTML website forms to process through AWS. Those are proof of concepts (POC) to make sure that I can make them and write down the basic instructions for myself and notes of what to look...
Photo illustration project
Found this old photo of my grandfather when scanning in family photos and thought it would be fun to work on it as some project. I first removed everything else from the photo in Photoshop. Then cleaned up the image, added parts that got lost with years of fading....
Received AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Certificate
This past weekend I tested and received my AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner certification. When I started training for the test I had very little exposure to AWS. I studied for a little over a month, around 60 hours, before taking the test; which luckily I passed on...
Inventory HTML page to a CSV file
As a New Year’s resolution, not mine, they wanted to make sure their online store, reseller site, inventory was up to date. They wanted to make sure their inventory was cleaned up and make sure that what’s listed on the site matches their own inventory. They had been...
To create a child theme in WordPress
This write-up is to cover the very basics needed to have a child theme for testing, not instructions to create a full child theme for selling or white labeling for a client.You can get more in-depth information...
Setup WordPress for local testing
If you’re getting started with WordPress or needing to test out themes, plug-ins or code, doing a local install is the best way to practice and test without worrying about altering your live site. Or if you want to work on WordPress sites when you don’t have internet...
Tic-Tac-Toe in JavaScript
To take a break from the other projects this weekend I worked on a Tic-Tac-Toe game in JavaScript. The basic instructions I had for myself was it needed to be able to be played by 1 or 2 people. I started with creating the game for 2 players. Thinking that if I can...
Save posts to a WordPress Database – Working Notes
This is notes/overview of a project I started on to add several posts to WordPress (WP) from HTML files without having to copy and paste each file. These are just notes from that dropped project and the basic Python script to do this (github). Make sure you fully test...
CMYK converter added
CMYK is a tricky one, since each device would interpret the colors differently. Had almost decided not to even include it but thought it could be useful at times. Looking around I found a basic formula that most people were using to give a rough idea for the color. I...