Nik's CTL journal

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• 2022
  • August 30 A MediaWiki CAS Setup with SimpleSAMLphp

• 2021
  • April 20 How to simulate gas particles with Matter.js
  • July 30 How to use and extend Mozilla's PDF.js Viewer

• 2020
  • January 17 Upstart to systemd
  • February 11 FOSDEM 2020
  • May 26 How to set up ModSecurity with nginx
• 2019
  • February 18 How to work with Planes in three.js
  • April 26 How to make a draggable dialog box in JavaScript
  • June 7 Adjustable noise data based on a curve
  • June 14 OpenTTD and SDL 2.0
  • July 18 How to back up your Vault secrets
  • July 26 SDL detective work
  • November 8 Cloning arbitrary Django objects
• 2018
  • January 11 My MINIX Nightmare
  • February 14 Intersecting functions with JSXGraph
  • February 26 MediaWiki's Visual Editor, and text editing on the web in general
  • April 9 A new web browser called Brave
  • May 4 How to use MediaWiki's API to export content
  • May 25 iptables and netfilter: a Linux firewall intro
  • July 27 How to animate graphical JavaScript programs
  • July 29 How to use your own Linux kernel
  • August 11 A reset button in ReactJS
  • August 23 A range input for scientific applications
  • September 27 How to make an analog clock (Part 1)
  • October 12 Thoughts on programming languages
  • December 31 The Internet's bright future?
• 2017
  • January 27 A reminder not to use bare except statements in Python
  • February 3 How to branch React libraries
  • February 16 Debugging volume with react-player
  • March 24 Sequenced activities in JavaScript
  • March 31 An integration of Django's bulk model editor
  • April 7 Outline of an ePub authoring system
  • July 28 A PHP/nginx/ubuntu configuration
  • August 4 Emacs for Vim users - the thrill of the unknown
  • August 18 JavaScript's #ifdef
  • September 1 How to render Vega visualizations in React
  • September 11 An interactive economics graphs in JSXGraph
  • September 21 An outline for developing embedded React applications
  • October 5 Adding unicode support to write
  • December 1 Notes on score submission with django-lti-provider and Canvas LMS
  • December 8 How to mock non-standard authentication in a Django view test
• 2016
  • January 8 Reliable Selenium Testing in Python - a work in progress
  • January 29 Using Django's FilteredSelectMultiple widget
  • February 5 A Daterange Mixin for Django Views
  • February 12 Reverse engineering GitHub's markdown toolbar
  • March 4 Lessons from Functional Programming
  • March 24 Using pipdeptree in a virtualenv
  • April 15 Using js-emoji in Django
  • April 29 A module import problem in commonmark.py
  • May 13 A Custom DOM Element Creator
  • May 27 Wordpress and Jekyll
  • June 17 Prototyping a Video Sequencer Tool for Mediathread
  • July 8 Overview of a React application
  • August 5 Physical and virtual environments in Python 2.6
  • August 19 How Not to use Feature Flags
  • August 26 A simple slideshow with React
  • September 23 Reflections on dotfiles
  • October 28 Using geckodriver with Travis CI

• 2015
  • May 15
  • May 22
  • May 29
  • June 5
  • June 15
  • June 26 Optimizing a slow Django view
  • July 10 Messing with Mediathread's Mustache.js code
  • July 17 A Mocha test runner for RequireJS
  • August 14 RequireJS, jQuery, and Node.js
  • September 4 Some thoughts on Backbone.js
  • September 11 Promises in jQuery
  • September 18 A JavaScript antipattern
  • September 25 Testing Mediathread's Chrome extension
  • October 9 Testing Graphical Simulations vs Django Applications
  • October 17 Creating a Django project template
  • October 23 Converting a Firefox extension from cfx to jpm
  • October 30 Making a SplitDurationWidget for Django
  • November 13 Managing Common Code in a Multi-Browser Extension
  • December 4 Django 1.9 library changes
  • December 18 Working around Firefox's window.open() Same-origin policy with port.emit()