Secrets of Mastering Excel

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(Technically they're called properties, but everyone calls them variables because of the var(--mycolor) syntax -- and I'm a descriptivist not a prescriptivist, so I'm gonna call 'em variables too.) Now... CSS Variables are COOL. The hooded figures who lurk near the Forbidden Dog Park don't want you to know about CSS Variables. The Sherriff's...

In my various websites and web applications, I often need to store some things and later retrieve them. Mostly for this I use a really simple key value store called "Stashy", that I built, oh, decades ago. Imagine I have a "plain old class object", and I want to save it. It might be an object called "myNewBlogPost". I will call:...

Now that everyone else has to work from home let me share my tips from 5 happy years of this way of life: Get some exercise! Measure your steps and make sure you do a healthy amount every day. Super important. With no incidental walking your fitness can really drop. Music! Music is crucial for me and maybe for you too. I bought a spotify...

I use a plain text file to manage my daily todo items. (Gina Trapani championed this idea with the "todo.txt" movement) and I use some little bits of console goodness to make it work my way. I like to jam with the console cowboys in cyberspace. At the start of each day I run a powershell script, "today" that does a bunch of calculations, opens up...