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Say hello to fretboard.buzz

Last week, I released https://fretboard.buzz, a free online tool that helps luthiers design fretboards for guitar, bass, mandolin, ukulele, and more. I’ve been playing guitar since I was a teenager in the late 80s, and got the bug for building guitars circa 2018. A chance encounter with

PDFObject for Vue 3

I’ve been wanting to revamp pdfobject.com to make it more modern and easier to read. This type of revamp is also a great way to stay up to date on the latest trends, like static site generators. After surveying the field, I decided to play with some Vue-based

Convert 'localhost' to your Mac's current IP address

When developing web pages, I use MAMP.app or my Mac’s built-in Apache. Viewing the page means using an address such as http://localhost/mypage.html. If you use custom host names (especially easy with the excellent VirtualHostX.app), you may wind up with a localhost address such as

On Converting Flash to HTML

I received a question from Bob (no, really), who wrote: I have a question about the newest version of Flash and its HTML publishing option using CreateJS. What do you think of that approach going forward? I started to write an email response but figured I should probably post it

Flash support is increasingly a minefield

Back in 2011, I mentioned that Microsoft was about to halt development of the Silverlight plugin, that Flash mobile was being discontinued, and that Adobe recommended HTML5 for enterprise RIA development instead of Flex, which was being open-sourced. My post was a little long-winded, but the short version was: whoa,

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