A timeline of events, all perpetrated by the GOP, that resulted in Flint’s water crisis. 1. GOP Legislature enacts emergency manager law Act 4, expanding their power to appoint emergency managers. Voters repeal Act 4, Snyder does it anyway. We begin our journey in March 2011, when a Republican-led Legislature passed Act 4 expanding the […]
The Trump Presidency, combined with GOP failure to act against him, constitutes the greatest threat this nation has ever faced. When I was 17, under penalty of law and threat of not receiving financial aid for college, I was forced to sign the Military Selective Service Agreement. I had resisted signing this document because I […]
It’s hard for me to see any collusion between the Trump White House and the KNOWN Russian hacking and influence of our presidential election… Except for the Flynn thing… And the Manafort thing… And the Tillerson thing… And the Sessions thing… And the Kushner thing… And the Carter Page thing… And the Roger Stone thing… […]
Nyet Comrade, Disobey They have hacked our diplomats and influenced our election. Hacks against WordPress Login pages are up almost 200% in the last 30 days. Amazon Web Services and Outlook.com have gone down in the last 10 days for the first time this author has seen in his life. The flood of “fake news” this […]
A WordPress Plugin to whitelist the white hats, and blacklist the script kiddies. Create a whitelist of IP addresses, one per line, that will be allowed to access your login, registration, and admin pages. All other IP addresses, i.e. the rest of the planet, will be blocked. For this reason it is quite easy for […]
Oh Adobe, you so crazy… A recent update to Dreamweaver 2017 turned the tag highlighting to a pastel green with white text. Not only is this a poor choice as far as accessibility is concerned, but for a manly man like myself this is simply unacceptable. Luckily, Dreamweaver has switched to using Brackets as its […]
I wondered how to make hard 45 degree corners, and then I spent hours traveling the depths of this rabbit hole. In some cases, typically when using the viewBox attribute, it is desirable that the graphics stretch to fit non-uniformly to take up the entire viewport. In other cases, it is desirable that uniform scaling […]
Bots and hackers and script kiddies, oh my! Sick of half your traffic coming from bots hammering on your login page and contact forms? Now you can use the power of Google’s reCAPTCHA on both. Brute force is a thing of the past. In early testing, I had trouble with conflicts between the reCAPTCHA used […]
You’re going to love this post like your mother never did. Does the nth child notation confuse you much like the actions of your least favorite child? Well, this simple tutorial will make you a master. Best of all, these CSS selectors work as jQuery selectors too, so you can grab any nth element of […]
So shiny, but I can’t look away! Props to Daniel Eden for a simple to use and easy to install CSS library. Animate.css will let you animate almost any element on your page just by adding a few extra classes to the element you want to animate. With dozens of built in animations, it’s hard to beat! […]
