I frequently need to Google for converters from named colours to convert them to their hexdecimal values - here's a handy reference in case you need one too …

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LinkedIn (recently) included a feature that starts autoplaying videos on your timeline as you scroll then into view. In case you were wondering (as I was) how to prevent those annoying videos of/posted by Brett-you-know-who from autoplaying on your LinkedIn time line - wonder no more …

This still happens all too frequently and I am bombarded with notifications of failed login attempts, as hackers try to access any number of any of the WordPress sites I maintain, daily … this is the story of that one time - that one website that they managed to hack and the chaos that ensued as I wrestled with the consequences …

If you reference W3Schools as “spec” on stackoverflow, you are a bad person #justsaying

So I'm moving house - well … not in the literal sense; I'm moving my hosting to Hetzner and am in the middle of the tedious process of backing up and migrating stuff … and, of course, I am easily distracted, so I look at some of the stuff that has been hosted with WebAfrica for the last 10 years or so …

I was doing some research as part of the process for interviewing new candidates for a position at my day job today - as ever my first reference is an article (now slightly dated) by Chris Coyier on the topic. I have used this as a base for many interviews in the past, it's really simple and aids in quickly disqualifying chancers …

First off: I've been naughty - I haven't been writing enough posts … it's a combination of bloggers curse and a ton of work to do before I set off on a new adventure …

In part 2 of my series of styling form fields using only CSS, we look at checkboxes. The approach and elements will be very similar to how we styled radio buttons - again we'll be hiding the actual form element and focus on styling the label and adding some pseudo elements to achieve the desired effect …

Most form fields can be styled without fancy JavaScript and or JS plugins. This post is part 1 of a few posts I intend to do on the topic … all revolving around the styling of form fields - in this post I'll take you through the process of styling radio buttons using only CSS …

This post is about something that has been nagging at me for a while now. Apparently it is head hunting season again and time to dust off the handbook for inaccurate job titles … accompanied by enough buzz words to choke on … you know: “guru”, “rock star”, “ninja” etc. Really? We still do that? Aren't we well past web 2.0 now? It's time to get with the times …

Something has been bugging me about StackOverflow for quite a while now … I have a serious problem with wrong answers being up-voted and/or accepted, simply because they were posted first and the solution worked, even though there might be a better answer that makes more sense programatically/semantically …

If you've ever been interviewed for a developer position, you have (no doubt) encountered the Fizz-buzz test. It's a “simple” problem solving test used to quickly eliminate candidates who do not grasp the basics of programming …

I used CSS transitions, a little tiny hack and a bit of CSS to make the search form of this site - here's how I did it …

In my previous post I touched on sibling selectors without explaining in too much detail what that means - I'm not going to go into too much detail here either, but I do think it warrants a slightly longer explanation with some examples. …

Lots has been written already about the "radio button hack" and I'm here to tell you that it isn't - it's not a hack, because you're not exploiting any loopholes or functionality that may or may not be fixed down the line …