Auto-Update Your README’s ASCII Directory Tree with GitHub Actions
How many GitHub repos have outdated directory tree art? If it’s important enough to feature on your main README, why not automate tree updates? Do it with a GitHub Actions Workflow.
Use 2 Fonts in Your Angular Material Custom Typography Config
So, you like Angular, and you like Angular.Material for styling, theming, and ready-made components that fit a coherent design language. But you still want to make customizations to the mat-typography-config. More specifically: create a custom config with a different font family for title headings and body text, and get both configs to work in an override.
How To Customize Your Error Pages: A Beginner Web Dev Project (Part 1: Back-End Basics)
PART 1: Back-End Basics. Tutorial: Rebrand your error pages, learn intro web dev, make your first live app (Redo all your customized error pages using one page of code).
Cover: HTML, CSS, Accessibility, Responsive Design (with Media Breakpoints), and Refactoring.
Star Rating Checkbox Form Input, HTML & CSS Only +Server PHP Submit File
Here’s a star rating component using only HTML & CSS, with checkbox inputs that look like stars. Plus: a PHP server file to submit the form to for testing.
Fix: MS Word Table Text Icons have White Background
Fix an issue where text icons in a Word table export to PDF with opaque backgrounds.
UI/UX Design: Energy Utility Controls Console, Prototype made in Adobe XD
GUI design prototype of equipment controls for an imaginary utility company. Made in Adobe XD with artboard and links discussion.
Hole.io – is 100% Possible? Watch me play the Pirate Islands World
I like “Process-Oriented Completionist” games. Like hole.io. Watch The Most Satisfying Gameplay Ever.
WordPress AMP: Inject Adsense Auto Ads & Google Tags from Child Theme
How to inject Adsense “Auto Ads For AMP” & Google Tag Manager (GTM) into WordPress AMP Pages from your Child Theme’s functions.php file.
Fix: Android Connects to WiFi Router but not Internet
My Android phone suddenly stopped connecting to the Internet, while other devices connected without issue. Here’s how I fixed it, and you can too.
How To: Fix Your Missing WordPress Images
If your WordPress images disappeared and you can’t even direct access them via url, maybe replace your .htaccess file. It’s easy, here’s how.
How To Structure Stable Large Assembly CAD Files for Production
“Cheat Sheet” infographic on File Structure & other tips for building Whole Machine CAD files that mirror (and therefore assist with documentation) how Real Production gets done.
Make Your Landscaping Design Plan: How to Model & Print in SolidWorks
Plants inhabit a 3D space, and grow many times larger than when you plant them. Let’s visualize that.
Tips for Making Graphics Look Smooth & Crisp Regardless of Image Resize
4 tips on how to future-proof your graphics from distortions, jagged edges, white edge pixels, and preserve legibility of text, after other people are controlling them.
How To: Efficiently Cut 4x8ft Foam Boards & Insulate a Band Joist
How to save money and seal out the elements by insulating your rim joist sills. Plus: Use this diagram to get 30-35 pieces per 4x8ft foam board for your 16″-on-center 2″x10″ floor joists.
Publish PDFs with Searchable, Highlightable BOMs in SVG Vector Art from SolidWorks Composer
I’m not alone in wondering: When Composer exports such beautiful technical artwork in vector image formats, why is it so hard to find a mainstream word processing or desktop publishing program that can showcase these images! Well, I found a way, and it’s FREE.