Resurrecting the HTML <blink><BLINK></blink> tag

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:…
Excel-based Motley Fool Premium Investment Service Performance Analyzer

Don't Believe The Hype: Excel-based Motley Fool Premium Investment Service Performance Analyzer

Back before I first became the global success I am today, I began looking into investing. Among the things you can't miss when you enter that world looking to learn…
Non-render-blocking YouTube embeds in WordPress

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…
WordPress Shortcode & Function Performance Optimization with Transients

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…
TradingView Pine Script Indicators, Algos & Experiments

Trading Tools: TradingView Pine Script Indicators, Algos & Experiments

Here's a collection of trading tools I wrote & shared on TradingView, a finance markets charting site, in their native Pine script. These were originally published on my old crypto…
An Excel-based DeFi Liquidity Pool Simulator

Untangling Uniswap? Demystifying DeFi? You Tell Me: An Excel-based DeFi Liquidity Pool Simulator

For a few years I was in cryptocurrency trading. Eventually, this led me to the wild west of decentralized finance tokens ("DeFi"), an exciting area that I feel has strong…
How to make a completely unusable homepage in CSS3 and jQuery

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…
a FiltaQuilla “open mail folder on receiving mail” Javascript Action script

Thunderbird Customization: a FiltaQuilla “open mail folder on receiving mail” Javascript Action script

Among the many things the late, lamented Eudora email client spoiled me for was, when I checked my mail, opening all the mailboxes that had received mail in new windows.…
WebCooler userscript

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…
Terminal-Notifier Bridge For Thunderbird Email Client

Thunderbird Customization: Terminal-Notifier Bridge For Thunderbird Email Client

Hot off the presses. Direct from my Github, a MacOS BASH script to allow customized per-mailbox notifications in the Mozilla Thunderbird email client. Following is the README containing full information…
Adding A Default Featured Image Or Thumbnail In WordPress

Adding A Default Featured Image Or Thumbnail In WordPress

On this site, any post without a featured image specifically set (such as this one) displays the default floral 'K' insignia anywhere on the site where a thumbnail is displayed.…
WordPress Custom “Hero Header” Modifications

Used on this site: WordPress Custom “Hero Header” Modifications

This site uses the "Sinatra" free Wordpress theme as its base. Sinatra includes a single "Hero Header" the row of 3 animated featured posts on the home page which changes…
The Internet Bad Statements (“BS”) Detector

Online Fact-Checking Tool: The Internet Bad Statements (“BS”) Detector

Here's a fairly old repost from my consulting site, where it got no traction whatsoever. The Bad Statements Detector is a specialized search tool designed to aid in online research…
Generating On-The-Fly Email Addresses as an Anti-Spam Measure in WordPress

Generating On-The-Fly Email Addresses as an Anti-Spam Measure in WordPress

On my IT consulting business site, I'm using a php script I've written to generate on-the-fly random email addresses specific to the browsing session looking at the site. So, I…