Websites that ask you to turn of adblocker
It’s not going to happen. There is a reason the user who came across your website has it turned on and the websites are to blame. From auto playing video,…
Tag: Web
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…
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…
Google maps coded to not work on Firefox?
You may be aware that YouTube was made sluggish when viewing in Firefox as per here and here. From my past experience and annoyance Google Maps, more specifically Google Maps…
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…
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…
Why URL shorten?
URL shortening is when you have links that redirect to content that are either a lot shorter than the redirect to URL or it is a ‘pretty’ URL. When I…
Why should you self host?
Self-hosting refers to hosting a program, service or app rather than using a paid service provider (SaaS). The main reason for self hosting is control. Having control over every part…
Content streaming has a bleak future in Australia
4k streaming has arrived, with 8k around the corner and the world moving and shaping up for a mass stream and media consumption era Australia unfortunately is going to slip…