Dan Smith dotherightthing

I'm a retired front-end developer with several decades of experience. I like to build modular functionality which is robust, accessible and easy to use.

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dotherightthing / scraping-archive-org.md

Last active August 17, 2019 18:53

[Scraping Archive.org] Recovering old web projects. #scraping #waybackmachine #portfolio

Scraping Archive.org

Created: 2017.04.06

Go to the Wayback Machine, enter a URL and take note of the start and end dates for the period where the site snapshots looked a particular way
Download the wayback-machine-downloader
Download the site:

$ cd download-directory

dotherightthing / 550-550-5-7-1-spf-check-failed.md

Last active August 15, 2019 10:28

[550 550 5.7.1 SPF check failed] How to stop mail being rejected by the recipient domain. #email

550 550 5.7.1 SPF check failed

Created: 2017.04.06

Background

Two emails have recently bounced back. I realised that both have been rejected by the recipient domain with the same message:

550 5.7.1 Message rejected (SPF)

dotherightthing / gist-clients.md

Last active July 27, 2020 21:33

[Gist clients] #gists #github

Gist clients

I'm in the process of moving my knowledgebase of mostly tech notes into Github as gists.

This means that I need good gist clients, so that I can quickly find what I'm looking for.

Note: Gists can only be searched by what's in the Description field. For this reason it's important to add #tags for any keywords that aren't in the 'title'.

Browser

dotherightthing / regex.md

Created August 15, 2019 10:57

[Regex] Using Gulp to clean-up scraped HTML. #javascript #gulp

Regex

Created 2017.04.03

Following my inability to get a Regex script working for Sitesucker, I decided to attempt the same thing in a Gulp script.

Tools

dotherightthing / web-developer-toolbar-disable-css.md

Created August 15, 2019 10:58

[Web Developer Toolbar: Disable CSS] #css

dotherightthing / are-you-sure-you-want-to-change-the-extension.md

Created August 15, 2019 11:00

[Are you sure you want to change the extension?] #macos

Are you sure you want to change the extension?

Created: 2017.04.02

Disable the File Extension Change Warning in Mac OS X

dotherightthing / updating-node-for-es6.md

Last active August 15, 2019 11:04

[Updating Node for ES6] Installing Node.js via an alternate location. #javascript

Updating Node for ES6

Created: 2017.04.05

My call to array.filter( onlyUnique ); was failing. Gulp didn't know what onlyUnique meant.

Unique values in an array offered some ES6 alternatives.

Surely, I thought, Node must have ES6 support built in.

dotherightthing / organising-functions-php.md

Created August 15, 2019 11:06

[Organising functions.php] #wordpress

Organising functions.php

Created: 2017.03.31

From Organizing Code in your WordPress Theme's functions.php File?

<?php
/*
 * functions.php

dotherightthing / merge-folders-on-os-x-macos.md

Created August 15, 2019 11:13

[Merge folders on OS X / MacOS] #macos

Merge folders on OS X / MacOS

Created: 2017.03.31

How to Merge Folders on Mac OS X Without Losing All Your Files (Seriously)

dotherightthing / bundling-theme-dependencies.md

Last active August 15, 2019 15:17

[Bundling theme dependencies] #wordpress #tgmpa

Bundling theme dependencies

Created: 2017.03.31

The 'modern' way: Using Composer with WordPress:

The Composer way is to specify dependencies in composer.json and composer.lock files. Dependencies are then installed via Composer when deploying or working on the site.

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