Expired To Be: A Chrome Browser Extension

Expired To Be A Chrome Browser Extension Set and be reminded of expiration dates. ‘Expired To Be’ is a Chrome extension available on the Chrome Web Store. Get notified of expiring items for things you don’t think about too often; like butter, medicine, or the supplies under your sink. As a developer, I spend most

Character Counts V2

The Chrome Web Extension “Character Counts” has been updated. Current Features: 1. Count the number of selected characters on a page. 2. Convert an ASCII(char) string* between normal ASCII, ASCII (Int), and Binary. * A string is represented by characters, words, and/or entire sentences. New Feature: 1. Choose if your conversion input (source) string is

I··C··D··O··T··S (––and––lines––)

I··C··D··O··T··S··: A Web App Game tl;dr – take me to the game already! ICDots is a board game for 2-7 players who will take turns selecting lines to form boxes. Scoring is 1 point per box pinned. Line colors have no distinction other than one is horizontal and one is vertical, and the alternating colors

>Testing Dark Humor:

“`describe(‘psychotic’, () => { it(‘puts’, () => { basket: “lotion” } expect(null).toEqual(“Precious”)) }“` I had originally posted this on Google+, but thought it fitting for my blog as well. I would also share on Twitter, but you can’t format Twitter messages, so it’d lose it’s coded `unit testing` humor hook. — Keith D Commiskey https://keithdc.com

Front-End Development Certification Achieved!

291 Coding challenges later… Free Code Camp Front-End Development Certification achieved! The last project assignment was to build a Simon Game: I built Simon 20 – complete with 3 speed levels, and a cheat mode! Initial functional development was completed in 8 hours. But follow-up tweaks and enhancements cost another 2 days, so it went about 3

A little… Tic Tac Toe?

I’m near complete with the Free Code Camp Front-End Development Certification course. 291 coding challenges and I’m on my last… Haven’t read through the specs yet, but based on my last four projects, I’m guessing it’ll run me another 3-4 days. My last project was a Tic Tac Toe game, in which you can play person-to-person,

My Experience with TypeScript + React

TypeScript: “A strict syntactical superset of JavaScript that adds optional static typing” (paraphrased from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TypeScript). I just finished injecting TypeScript into my last React web app (Done (for now)), and can say that I’ve enjoyed learning how TypeScript works: In particular its insightful nuances with React. Why TypeScript? …One might ask… I’ll let their intro video

Done (for now) | An Online Timer (with countdowns)

“Done (for now)” is a multi-‘timer’ web app with custom snooze and a one-at-a-time notification queue. This is my second React web app, which I’m hoping will become my first React Native (mobile) app (once I learn React Native, which is next on my list of learnables). The ‘Done (for now)’ timer provides alerts (via

My Programming History: As of July, 2017

Coming up on my 1-year of being ‘between jobs’ (reasons explained within), figured I’d pay a tribute to all my developmental years up to now. Beyond the technologies I’ve semi-mastered along the way, and the projects I’ve completed, I’ve always enjoyed learning and, quite simply, being productive. I started programming with Atari Basic. I used

Completed First React App: Track Your Cash

My first React app is now live. It’s called “Track Your Cash” and is a simplified checkbook register. The project uses React, React Router 4, and Redux, and runs on a Digital Ocean Ubuntu-based NGINX server. “Track Your Cash” Demo: https://kdcinfo.com/app/register/(this will redirect to Digital Ocean’s IP address) View the code on GitHub: https://github.com/KDCinfo/track-your-cash This

Can’t Decide Where to Eat? Let Pick-a-Meal decide for you!

Pick-a-Meal is an online “Random Food Type and Restaurant Selector”. You choose multiple Food Types or Restaurants from a list that you create, and it will randomly pick one for you. https://kdcinfo.com/pickameal/ I (re)built Pick-a-Meal to continue learning more about Laravel. My older, downloadable, version was done in very old school PHP(4). The new online