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kingkool68on CSS Purge

Good job Smudge. I found a similar technique quite helpful. The only difference is instead of asking the server for a partial I just download the entire HTML source and query it for the parts I need and inject those parts into the DOM. Super helpful for zippy photo galleries or infinite scroll.

kingkool68on Show HN: An infinite scrolling feed cache to keep things nice when users return

I just use real URLs that resolve when you navigate back to them... https://www.zadieheimlich.com (terrible use case as clicking a heading takes you to the same thing you see currently on the homepage but you get the idea.)

kingkool68on A game made with CSS/HTML only

If you press a key on your keyboard the mouse cursor goes away and you win!

kingkool68on Combine tags for social media cards markup

tl;dr

Twitter uses the name attribute, Facebook/opengraph uses the property attribute, therefore...

kingkool68on The Story Behind the New WordPress.com

Meh.

kingkool68on Show HN: Front-end content publishing for WordPress

Hi!

I wish there was a demo because it is hard for me to grok what it does. It says frontend publishing but the screenshots just look like a backend admin view to me.

kingkool68on HTML6 Concept

You can already use whatever HTML element you want for CSS and JS hooks. I too have dreamed of a way to use whatever element you want way back in 2009 http://www.russellheimlich.com/blog/death-to-the-div/

kingkool68on A Sochi Olympics API

I built a scraper to organize athlete profile data https://github.com/kingkool68/Scraping-Sochi-2014-Athlete-Pr...

kingkool68on Show HN: My Internet life

I had SweetCron set-up and forgot about it. It's still up and going at http://kingkool68.com/ Looks like it broke at some point.

kingkool68on Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

Woo hoo! Another SmartGit user. I love it! And SmartSVN and SmartSynchronize.

kingkool68on Upton: A Web Scraping Framework

PHP SimpleDOM Class makes scraping just like working with jQuery on the backend. http://simplehtmldom.sourceforge.net/

kingkool68on Tricky CSS Selectors Quiz

These were pretty simple except for that last one.

kingkool68on Study: Reddit used by 6% of adult Internet users

Original source of the study http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2013/reddit.aspx

kingkool68on Seriously.js

I'm a full-stack developer doing HTML/CSS/JavaScript/jQuery/PHP/WordPress/MySQL/Sysadmin stuff for pewresearch.org

kingkool68on Seriously.js

We're already friends. Hi Randall!

kingkool68on Discovered: Botnet Costing Display Advertisers over $6,000,000 per Month

I'm fairly confident all of the revenue from one of my sites comes from botnet ad clicks. I use CloudFlare and when I set it up at first I used the standard settings for blocking bots. My ad revenue flat lined. Took the botnet protections off and my ad revenue went right back to what it was before.

kingkool68on Ask HN: What is the coolest JS library out there?

Agree. d3 looks awesome. See these great video tutorials for it http://vimeo.com/search/sort:alphabetical/format:detail?q=%2...

kingkool68on Ask HN: What is the coolest JS library out there?

I like TinySort which is a no-frills jQuery plugin to sort HTML elements. Great for data tables -> http://tinysort.sjeiti.com/

Speaking of data tables, I wrote a little function to make table headers sticky so they stay at the top of the viewport as you scroll down a large table. https://github.com/kingkool68/stickyHeader No options, just include on the page, add a class of stickyHeader on the table and you're done.

kingkool68on Browse Amazon, Randomly

I own the domain name randomamazon.com. I always wanted to get around to doing something like this.

kingkool68on With Memoto, Affordable Passive Lifelogging Has Arrived

Software can filter your 46.5661287 exabytes of pictures to guide you to the ones that are most interesting. Besides, what's important is relative and could change with future events. For example, a rather casual photo of Bill Clinton hugging Monica Lewinsky was just a throw away photo when it was taken. But after the scandal broke it became worth a fortune.

http://www.worldsfamousphotos.com/2008/10/15/bill-clinton-hu...

In conclusion, photograph all of the things and worry about analyzing it later.

kingkool68on With Memoto, Affordable Passive Lifelogging Has Arrived

Can't wait for mine to get here!

kingkool68on Ask HN: what are your best (relatively) passive, non-stock-market investments?

I invested the time getting it set-up, writing content, yadda yadda... In the past 12 months it has earned me ~$300. It's enough to fund other side projects.

kingkool68on Ask HN: what are your best (relatively) passive, non-stock-market investments?

My personal blog http://www.russellheimlich.com/blog/

I run 2 Google Adsense ads on individual post pages and it more than pays for the cost of my shared hosting account. I haven't blogged in over a year after a pretty good run.

I also run http://dummyimage.com with a single ad which covers the increased monthly VPS cost to keep it running.

kingkool68on Python open-source tool that generates images with a URL

The one that started them all http://dummyimage.com/

kingkool68on PlaceHold.it A simple image placeholder service

There are a ton of them out there. Here is a list of them ordered by when the domain name was registered.

http://www.russellheimlich.com/blog/list-of-dummy-image-gene...

kingkool68on PlaceHold.it A simple image placeholder service

Yup. That would be me.

Here's how dummyimage.com evolved http://www.russellheimlich.com/blog/tags/projects/dummyimage...

and here is how placehold.it came to be. (The tweets are in chronological order.)

https://twitter.com/kingkool68/status/10582057668

https://twitter.com/iboughtamac/status/10582115943

https://twitter.com/kingkool68/status/10582270354

https://twitter.com/kingkool68/status/10582407098

https://twitter.com/iboughtamac/status/10582447868

https://twitter.com/kingkool68/status/10582658022

https://twitter.com/iboughtamac/status/10583391789

kingkool68on PlaceHold.it A simple image placeholder service

http://dummyimage.com is open source. It has a couple new features compared to the code running placehold.it