22 April 2022
5 elements of a successful website (2022)
1. KISS One of the most common problems is trying to fit as much content as possible in a small area. This way, one single […]
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23 January 2022
Pi-hole, an effective ad-block for your entire home/office network
Each time I come back home and my devices connect to my wifi the websites and apps suddenly become less cluttered and content more relevant. […]
29 April 2021
A helpful Discord bot for a Minecraft server
I’ve created a Discord bot which tells who is currently on a Minecraft server, player’s play time and much more.
7 November 2020
An inline slide show for web pages
I’ve created a slideshow-style media browser for websites (aka slider). I proudly call it Media Collections Browser because why not. MCB can be embedded directly […]
19 September 2020
‘Bleeding’ web pages
Bleed is a common design technique found in print. It means that the photos or graphics bleed over the edge of a page and are […]
2 July 2020
Splitting HTML tags with PHP
When trimming HTML articles we need to respect HTML objects. Length of those can vary widely so we need to figure out how to split […]
11 June 2020
Content embedding – staff profiles
Staff AKA team and their profiles are often referenced in various sections of a website. Simply copying and pasting the relevant text, images and links […]
31 May 2020
Launch agents and daemons locations in macOS
/Library/LaunchAgents
/Library/LaunchDaemons
/System/Library/LaunchAgents
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons
~/Library/LaunchAgents
30 April 2020
Paragraph styles in web design
Typographic styles exist in most of word processing, publication and design apps such as InDesign, Pages or MS Word. It’s easy to create even better […]
21 April 2020
Truncate long links
Links / email addresses can be often quite long. Longer than available container width in our layout or even the width of the screen of […]
21 April 2020
My experience with Magento development
Magento is a powerful framework for building all sorts of e-commerce web-applications. It’s main advantages include great flexibility and probably most of all scalability. Magento-powered […]
19 April 2020
Layout breakpoint (JavaScript)
CSS media-queries are great for responsive layouts. To serve optimised media, though, I still prefer to rely on JavaScript. Not only for the sake of […]
27 March 2020
Remove the WordPress admin bar’s inline CSS
The below code overrides the default callback in the WP_Admin_Bar class with a blank function. This simple trick prevents the WordPress from adding inline CSS […]
25 March 2020
Dynamically loaded libraries in web development
Every page of every website needs assets such as styles, scripts and even specific back-end code. The idea is to load all that stuff on […]
15 August 2019
WordPress security tips
Having worked with WordPress for a while now I worked-out certain simple ways to drastically improve the security and integrity of a WP based website. […]
19 May 2019
More control over iCloud Drive syncing
iCloud Drive usually manages your system storage quite well. But sometimes we want a bit more control.
26 September 2016
Distraction-free YouTube
Everyday we are exposed to many distractions that decrease our productivity. Some of them can be easily eliminated.
3 August 2016
Dominant colour of an image
Calculating the dominant colour of an image is useful in many different cases. One such case is setting the background of a HTML container. Typically […]
12 November 2014
A stylish server enclosure
Driven by the need of an enclosure for my home server I’ve designed a retro-looking box. It wasn’t as easy to produce as I hoped […]
7 August 2013
Lichtenstein meets 3D pixel art in Minecraft
I built a pixelated, embossed version of Lichtenstein’s piece in Minecraft Classic. Rather than building it manually, block by block, I wrote bunch of scripts […]
24 May 2013
Arial vs Helvetica
The difference between the two is subtle yet significant. For me it is more sensed than perceived, really. I came across a simple website. Large, […]
23 January 2013
Capture One quick overview
Straightening of an image and perspective correction is very intuitive – to rotate simply draw a line along the vertical or horizontal element. To correct […]
7 August 2012
Typomare
Playing with iconic identity of London Underground