Simple Greasemonkey Reload Script
Granted, it could use some flash, but it works. Default is 120 seconds. It does require jQuery loaded up into your gmscript, which can take some troubleshooting. But here’s what the head of the script looks like:
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Email a Low Disk Space Alert With Mailgun API
Here’s how to monitor disk space on your server and use the Mailgun API to send an email alert:
Debugging Perl Blank/White Pages
Have a Perl script that just gives you a blank page and can’t figure out what error it’s giving? You can run it on the command line, including GET params like so: http://something.com/cgi-bin/x.pl?x=y&t=j becomes ./x.pl x=y t=j
Get LiveReload Working on Localhost SSL (Self-Signed) Using Gulp
How to get livereload working for localhost development, using a self-signed SSL certificate in a Gulpfile. Combining a couple of tricks from around the webs. It’s easier than it seems.
CSS Trick: Text Overflow Ellipsis (dot dot dot)
Makes sure a long line truncate with an ellipsis (i.e. dot dot dot).
Web Fonts Not Initially Rendered on Chrome
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We were having a problem with web fonts (Google Web Font’s Open Sans and some icon fonts, specifically) not showing up when a page loads. They were only showing after hovering over an item or a resize — in other … Continued
Linux Mint 16 (Saucy): Downgrade PHP 5.5 to 5.4.9 (and Apache too)
After much searching, the solution was found by user marcinello at Super User. Why would someone want to downgrade PHP 5.5 to 5.4.9? Primarily it’s because PHP 5.5 is the first to deprecate the MySQL extension (suggesting either MySQLi or … Continued
Getting lynx to work on shared hosting after the error Lynx file “/etc/lynx.lss” is not available.
Getting the error message: Lynx file “/etc/lynx.lss” is not available.
Kohana HTTPS Bug Fix When Trying to Output Using Certain Built-in Static Methods
Many of Kohana’s built-in static methods for getting stuff like HTML::styles unfortunately has a bug when trying to output to a server with HTTPS. The problem can be traced back to URL::base, which doesn’t properly spit out the right protocol … Continued
Command Line Fix for a Super Large MySQL Table Marked as Damaged
Repairing a MySQL table that was over 4Gb in size would have taken days without this command: