I'm Brad, and I'm nearing 20 years of experience with Linux. I've worked in just about every IT role there is before taking the leap into software development. Currently, I'm building desktop and web-based solutions with NodeJS and PHP hosted on Linux infrastructure. Visit my blog or find me on Twitter to see what I'm up to.
For completely impractical reasons I decided to try and browse the internet using my 1989 Macintosh IICI computer. Here’s how it went. I’ve previously tried web browsing with Web Rendering Proxy on a 1993 Windows 3.11 computer, and thought I’d see how the Apple experience… Read More »Browsing the Internet on a 1989 Macintosh II with a Web Rendering Proxy
This article will show you how I built a DIY Raspberry Pi Powered Pinball game using GDevelop and an Arduino to add physical push-buttons to control the game. GDevelop is a zero-code game development studio, so this article has almost no coding required. I’ve been… Read More »DIY Raspberry Pi Powered Pinball Machine [Kitchen Build]
This quick tutorial will show you how to set which network Linux uses to access internet when multiple networks are connected by setting the default route. If you have a Linux device (for example a Raspberry Pi) connected to multiple networks (like being connected to… Read More »Linux: Set Which Network Connection You Get Internet From [Default Route]
This short tutorial will show you how to use the PHP sleep() and usleep() functions to pause script execution for a number of seconds/microseconds, and provide some code examples. The PHP sleep() and usleep() functions both pause execution of the script, but both behave a bit differently. Why Pause/Sleep PHP Script Execution? Delaying, sleeping, or… Read More »Using PHP sleep() and usleep() to Pause Execution [Examples]
This article will quickly walk you through how to comment your PHP code with single and multi-line comments. What is a Comment? A comment in programming is one or more lines of text that aren’t interpreted as programming instructions. Instead, the computer skips the commented lines when executing… Read More »How to Use Single/Multiline Comments in your PHP Code
This article will show you how a JavaScript while loop is constructed, and what it us used for, with code examples. While loops are one of the simplest kinds of loops, and appear in most programming languages. A while loop runs a block of code repeatedly, until a condition is… Read More »How to use the JavaScript ‘while’ Loop, With Examples
You’ve searched for ‘JavaScript Print’ – so you’re probably trying to output data to the console, to the webpage or to a printer. Here’s how to do all three. Printing to the Console with console.log() The JavaScript console.log() method prints data to the JavaScript console (visible in your browsers web inspector).… Read More »JavaScript Print – To the Console, WebPage, or a Printer [Examples]
Here’s an odd solution I came up with to deal with the tangled mess that is my Raspberry Pi HomeLab – mounting it on a cheap kitchen chopping board. There’s not a lot more to be said for it really – it’s a Raspberry Pi… Read More »DIY Raspberry Pi Chopping Board HomeLab
This article will explain how to use escape characters to escape quotes in strings in the JavaScript programming language, with some examples. What is a String Variable in JavaScript? A string is a type of variable. It represents a series of zero or more characters. Other variable types… Read More »JavaScript Escape Quotes / Escape Strings [Examples]
This article will show you how a JavaScript do while loop is constructed, and what it us used for, with code examples. do while loops are one of the simplest kinds of loops, and appear in most programming languages. A do while loop runs a block of code repeatedly, until… Read More »How to Use the JavaScript ‘do while’ Loop, With Examples
