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When I was in my teens, piracy of mp3s, movies, and just about everything else via torrents and apps like Kazaa, LimeWire, Napster, etc. was in full swing. These days... * * By David WalshAugust 3, 2024 HOW TO ADD A HEADER TO A CURL REQUEST curl is one of those great utilities that's been around seemingly forever and has endless use cases. These days I find myself using curl to batch download files and test APIs. Sometimes my testing leads me to using different HTTP headers... * By David WalshJune 19, 2024 CASE INSENSITIVE CSS ATTRIBUTE SELECTOR CSS selectors never cease to amaze me in how powerful they can be in matching complex patterns. Most of that flexibility is in parent/child/sibling relationships, very seldomly in value matching. Consider my surprise when I learned that CSS allows matching attribute values regardless off... * By David WalshJune 17, 2024 HOW TO SET DATE TIME FROM MAC COMMAND LINE Working on a web extension that ships to an app store and isn't immediately modifiable, like a website, can be difficult. Since you cannot immediately deploy updates, you sometimes need to bake in hardcoded date-based logic. Testing future dates can be difficult if you... * By David WalshMay 13, 2024 HOW TO RETRIEVE WIFI PASSWORD ON WINDOWS Remembering the WiFi password when on a guest network is never easy. Even worse is when it's no longer posted and someone else is asking you for it. Luckily there's a built in Windows command to recover the password of a given WiFi network.The... * By David WalshMay 1, 2024 HOW TO FIX: WINDOWS WASD KEYS REVERSED WITH ARROW KEYS This past weekend I had the opportunity to be what every father wants, if only for a moment: the "cool dad". My wife was out of town and my youngest son wanted to play PUBG. I caved in, taught him the basic FPS... * By David WalshApril 15, 2024 HTML POPOVER ATTRIBUTE Modals have been an important part of websites for two decades. Stacking contents and using fetch to accomplish tasks are a great way to improve UX on both desktop and mobile. Unfortunately most developers don't know that the HTML and JavaScript specs have implemented... * By David WalshMarch 25, 2024 GET STARTED IN AI AND NFTS WITH THE LIMEWIRE API AI media creation has expanded to incredible video art and a host of other important improvements, and LimeWire is leading the way in creating an awesome interface for the average user to become an AI artist. Limewire has just released its... * By David WalshMarch 18, 2024 I’M SO OLD: WEB EDITION Time can be a funny thing. I still remember discovering HTML, CSS, and JavaScript coding. I still remember my first college programming course. I still remember my first day at my first coding job, then my first day at my second coding job, and then my... * By David WalshFebruary 6, 2024 DETECT CAPS LOCK WITH JAVASCRIPT Anyone is capable of having their caps lock key on at any given time without realizing so. Users can easily spot unwanted caps lock when typing in most inputs, but when using a password input, the problem isn't so obvious. That leads to the... Recent TutorialsFeatured TutorialsIncredible Demos POPULAR FEATURES * By David WalshOctober 6, 2020 39 SHIRTS – LEAVING MOZILLA In 2001 I had just graduated from a small town high school and headed off to a small town college. I found myself in the quaint computer lab where the substandard computers featured two browsers: Internet Explorer and Mozilla. It was this lab where I fell... * By David WalshOctober 7, 2019 INTERVIEW WITH A PORNHUB WEB DEVELOPER Regardless of your stance on pornography, it would be impossible to deny the massive impact the adult website industry has had on pushing the web forward. From pushing the browser's video limits to pushing ads through WebSocket so ad blockers don't detect them, you have... * By David WalshFebruary 19, 2019 WELCOME TO MY NEW OFFICE My first professional web development was at a small print shop where I sat in a windowless cubical all day. I suffered that boxed in environment for almost five years before I was able to find a remote job where I worked from home. The first... * By David WalshSeptember 21, 2017 HOW TO CREATE A RETROPIE ON RASPBERRY PI – GRAPHICAL GUIDE Today we get to play amazing games on our super powered game consoles, PCs, VR headsets, and even mobile devices. While I enjoy playing new games these days, I do long for the retro gaming systems I had when I was a kid: the original Nintendo... * By David WalshSeptember 18, 2017 CONQUERING IMPOSTOR SYNDROME Two years ago I documented my struggles with Imposter Syndrome and the response was immense. I received messages of support and commiseration from new web developers, veteran engineers, and even persons of all experience levels in other professions. I've even caught myself reading the post... * By David WalshJune 29, 2016 BEING A DEV DAD I get asked loads of questions every day but I'm always surprised that they're rarely questions about code or even tech -- many of the questions I get are more about non-dev stuff like what my office is like, what software I use, and oftentimes... * By David WalshNovember 2, 2015 JAVASCRIPT PROMISE API While synchronous code is easier to follow and debug, async is generally better for performance and flexibility. Why "hold up the show" when you can trigger numerous requests at once and then handle them when each is ready? Promises are becoming a big part of the JavaScript world... All FeaturesIncredible Demos SIDEBAR POPULAR TOPICS * .htaccess * AJAX * Canvas & SVG * CSS * Dojo * Firefox OS * HTML5 * JavaScript * jQuery * Media * Mobile * MooTools * Node.js * Performance * PHP * SEO * Shell * WordPress POPULAR FEATURES * 39 Shirts - Leaving Mozilla * Interview with a Pornhub Web Developer * Welcome to My New Office * How to Create a RetroPie on Raspberry Pi - Graphical Guide * Conquering Impostor Syndrome * Being a Dev Dad * JavaScript Promise API Advertise Here POPULAR DEMOS * Chris Coyier’s Favorite CodePen Demos IV * prefers-color-scheme: CSS Media Query * CSS Ellipsis Beginning of String * Vertically Centering with Flexbox * Creating Spacers with Flexbox * * * * * * © David Walsh 2007-2024. All code MIT license.Hosting by Media Temple.