Easily Screenshot any DOM Element in Chrome
Sharing Chrome's little known command line feature that allows for quick and precise screenshots of any DOM element.
Web Development
Deploying an Express App to AWS Beanstalk
A broad overview of AWS's Beanstalk service, its default Node and NPM configurations, build customization options, and a few of my hard learned lessons along the way.
Publishing My First NPM Package!
The time had finally come, I had been mooching off of awesome, publicly sourced NPM packages for far too long. I had to give something back to the community and so I did. Here are some of the things I learned along the way.
Build A Raspberry Pi Bitcoin Hub - Part 3
The final part of the 3 part tutorial explaining how to build a Bitcoin price tracking Electron application intended for use on the Raspberry Pi.
Build A Raspberry Pi Bitcoin Hub - Part 2
The second part of the 3 part tutorial explaining how to build a Bitcoin price tracking Electron application intended for use on the Raspberry Pi.
Build A Raspberry Pi Bitcoin Hub - Part 1
A tutorial on how to built on Electron application that runs on a Raspberry Pi and gets data from Blockchain.info API.
Embedding an HTML Page Inside of an Image
A not so useful, but indeed a really cool hack to embed a complete HTML webpage into the metadata of an image.
Where is the ECMAScript 4 Standard?
The proposed ECMAScript 4 standard was (and still is) the most ambitious and largest update ever attempted to the JavaScript language. Learn what happened next.
Tips for JavaScript Constructors
Learn how prototypical inheritance works and why your class constructers in JavaScript need to be as light as possible.
Function Spies in Backbone Views
Learn how to easily spy on and then test a function on a Backbone view using SinonJs.
Count the Number of Watchers on an AngularJs Page
Too many watchers in an AngularJs app and you are going to have significant performance problems. Here is a quick tip to print out the number of watchers currently set on a page.
Monkey Patching in JavaScript
Learn how to "monkey patch" or modify the runtime Javascript without altering the original source code.