I’m scared to think I keep using an email client which has so few configurations. I tried to find how to enforce the minimum font size in Gmail but I failed. Apparently there is no such option. Because emails written in font size 12px were too difficult to read on a small laptop screen, I wrote a script that sets the minimum font height.
…Running a niche web site and want to count every single visitor? I created a script that runs on the Google Analytics report page and alerts with a sound whenever the count of current visitors changes – so when a new person enters your site or leaves it.
…I was very disappointed when a popular Google Analytics WordPress plugin moved most of its features to a $200 / year plan. I looked for a free alternative because I had very little requirements: add the tracking code to the page and track page scroll. It’s barely a dozen lines of code using autotrack. I think I have checked all WordPress plugins that appeared after searching for “Google Analytics” and I found only ONE that met the requirement. Unfortunately, it was not compatible with Google Analytics (analytics.js code), but only with Google Tag Manager (gtm.js)…
The script I created in Course/movie labeling solution using Firebase and ViolentMonkey worked well on one page but randomly failed to work in another. It was caused by the page’s JavaScript code which altered the behavior of XMLHttpRequest. Because I was not able to resolve it, I decided to convert my script into a Chrome extension, which would be executed in an isolated environment.
…There are pages that do not show information about items you watched, want to watch or don’t want to. May it be a movie database, TV guide, list of online courses, and so on. One such page is Highbrow which, for an unknown reason, has no account feature yet lists a lot of courses. It may be easy to forget which you completed and even harder to find a new course to start.
I’ll show how to create a kind of addon – a GreaseMonkey/ViolentMonkey script that will be run automatically once you enter that page (here: Highbrow) and show the items you marked as completed or todo. That script will connect with a free cloud database Google Firebase to store your list and provide an easy ability to mark every course. Here it is in action:
…Recently I had the doubtful pleasure of trying to fix a blue screen in my Windows laptop. I learned a lot, tried tens of scenarios, but nonetheless I failed to repair it. This post contains a list of the tools I used to recover the system and some hints on how to deal with various problems. I will try to answer the following questions:
What is MBR and GPT? How to rebuild BCD and fix MBR? How to clone a partition or disk to another disk or file? How to remove and create partitions? How to remove Windows Update leftovers?
…There are several things useful in a longer document:
I’ll show how to parse text, extract numbers and calculate averages on an example of performance data. I have performed a dozen of performance scenarios, each repeated four times to get an average. Every sample contained three values: time in seconds of execution of the first step, time in seconds of execution of the second step, and memory consumption in MB. For instance, 17.6 | 7.4 | 687 meant:
I’ve been using mind mapping tools for years for creating plans or elaborating ideas. So far, my favorite offline software was FreeMind. It hasn’t been updated for years, but it is open source and has impressive features, like formatting nodes, icons, good keyboard support, adding links, colorful clouds for branches, and much more. Just take a look at the screenshot in Wikipedia. Today I decided to look for some online alternative for easier access on any device (also mobile) and simplified sharing.
…Previously I described one method to add custom widgets areas by copying and modifying theme files:
Now I’d like to describe another possibility when it comes to adding widgets area above or below a post or page – by adding the_content filter.
