Carbon; Create images of code
carbon.now.sh is a web app that turns code snippets into images. Is this needed? Well I cant see why there would be huge demand for something that turns a slab…
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Flat minimal Bootstrap forms
Minimal flat Bootstrap forms These forms are simple, compact and well suited to the modern web. Built using Bootstrap 4 the forms view well from a pc down to smart…
Scraping LivestreamFails part 2
Part 1 here In part 1 the focus was on scraping and storing the data. Now let’s get into using the stored data to download the videos. What I needed…
Ethics of web scraping
Web scraping the action of pulling and organizing data from a website. This data could be a tables, pages, images or even the body text. A websites contents could mean…
Video background with CSS
Here is a method to have a video autoplay and loop in the background of a webpage. The CSS has focus on it being somewhat responsive, With a framework like…
Scraping LivestreamFails Part 1
I do not encourage web scraping nor will I post full code to do so, this was simply a challenge to myself and was documented as so. LivestreamFails the place…
Keeping website requests down
A website request means the data your browser asks for when visiting a website. The styles (CSS) and Javascript files, Images and videos are all requests. Each one of them…
The dilemma
Redesigning my website apart from the looks overhaul I wanted it to be quick and light with minimal requests. Through using CDN’s and minifying I got it to a decent…
Is AMP faster than HTML?
AMP the new age framework for quicker and lighter webpages has seen a popular rise over the past year. But is its main aim of being quick actually true? How…
See which website a user came from with PHP
Ever clicked a link and seen a spooky popup or mention of the website you just came from on the new page? This is done through HTTP_REFERER. $_SERVER[“HTTP_REFERER”] You can…