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KupieTools Custom WordPress Plugins Overview
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Customization Is King: KupieTools Custom WordPress Plugins Overview

Pardon My Placeholder! This page is a placeholder listing my various Github repos containing my custom WordPress plugin work, loosely branded as "KupieTools", as I work on more detailed pages…
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Pure CSS interactive web holiday lights
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season's geekings: Pure CSS interactive web holiday lights

Strung across this page are pure CSS interactive Christmas lights. You can slowly move your mouse across them to jostle them and they're move, all without any javascript. The twisty…
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Web Design—Adding Text Previews To HTML Details Disclosure Elements
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god is in the details: Web Design—Adding Text Previews To HTML Details Disclosure Elements

Looking around the site, you might get the hint that I'm a big fan of <details class="detailsClassName"><summary>blah blah blah</summary> even more blah blah blah</details> disclosure elements. For those unfamiliar, that's…
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Scripts to Analyze CSS from Firefox’s Javascript console.
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For Web Devs and Other Tool-Using Animals: Scripts to Analyze CSS from Firefox’s Javascript console.

When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary to understand why your wordpress site's freaking menus display fine when you're logged in as administrator but are completely broken…
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Resurrecting the HTML <blink><BLINK></blink> tag
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In With The Old: Resurrecting the HTML <BLINK> tag

Back in the bad old days, there was an HTML tag called . It did this, which everybody hated, because it was annoying, and everybody's web pages looked like this:…
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Non-render-blocking YouTube embeds in WordPress
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Video Killed The Pagespeed Score: Non-render-blocking YouTube embeds in WordPress

On this site's Music Reviews page (itself built on-the-fly by a shortcode that sorts and displays posts from a "Music Review" custom post type), most of the reviews are accompanied…
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WordPress Shortcode & Function Performance Optimization with Transients
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Optimization-A-Go-Go: WordPress Shortcode & Function Performance Optimization with Transients

I suffer from that paradoxical form of laziness peculiar to computer geeks where I will save myself save myself 15 minutes of work on something by spending 4 hours creating…
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How to make a completely unusable homepage in CSS3 and jQuery
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Usability Hell: How to make a completely unusable homepage in CSS3 and jQuery

One of my favorite bits of code I've ever done is on the front page of my jiggy, ancient, perpetually-under-construction, virtually-never-viewed old personal website, Life In A Mikeycosm. Eager to…
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WebCooler userscript
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Take The Edge Off Your Web Browsing: WebCooler userscript

If you're like me, you care passionately about certain subjects; the natural flip side of this is being viscerally revulsed by certain things. As a matter of mental hygiene I'm…
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