Only fire when ready (Manifest v3) — In my last blog post, I showed you how to make a Chrome Extension and how to make a background script that was manifest version 3 compliant. In this post we will continue with background scripts. …

Create the connection between the user and the extension. (Manifest Version 3) — I’ve been delving into Chrome extensions in my downtime and it’s sparked a lot of ideas in the pipeline now that I know how to make them! One of the more challenging parts of learning about them was understanding what a background script was — and how to write an…

What I tried, what went wrong, and how I fixed it! — I was working on a spreadsheet to help me create data visualizations for my audience statistics on Medium. My goal was to be able to see a lot of the key metrics that are found within the audience stats page on Medium in a more succinct and organized way. First…

My last post for 2022 starts…now! — I just completed an analysis of my Medium performance and consistency for the year 2022 — and earlier. I decided to make this tool in order to more succinctly track my progress over the last few years and for the years to come. Below is the “straight up” analysis, meaning…

And Quick Ways To Condense Your Code — Someone asked the question, how do you write code faster, on Quora, and sent me a request for an answer. My answer may shock you… The reality is…there is no secret sauce. The more you code, the easier it’ll become and the quicker you’ll write it. In essence, this is…

Combine Regex to Have Clean, Efficient Pattern Matching — In a previous post, I wrote about how to make YouTube links show up as thumbnails in your Medium post. In order to do it, you need to make use of some regular expressions to match and replace certain patterns in the provided URLs. In the post, I included a…

The Benefits, The Pitfalls, and The Rewards — You might have heard of intermittent fasting (IF) — a practice by which you don’t eat for a period of time during each day or week. I personally have been doing 16:8 IF, where you eat for 8 hours a day and fast for 16. Despite doing that for a…

A quick and easy function to ensure all links show up as a thumbnail! — I was recently working on a blog post about various meditations that I’ve come to really like over the last few years when I realized that all of the links I had saved in my Notes app on my phone wouldn’t come up as links in my post.

Updated Monthly — For the last few years I have been trying to meditate more as a means to improve focus, mindfulness and general wellness. As of September 21, 2022, I have discovered new goals for meditation after deciding to officially stop drinking. …