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Design Development Resources Tutorials About Search for: Getting Localized Month and Day Names in the Browser (without Translations) JavaScript has a well-supported date/time formatting API called Intl.DateTimeFormat . Here&aposs a tip — you can use it to generate localized month and day names without the need for a language pack! This is super useful if you&aposre building, say, a date picker or a calendar app. November 25, 2020     Shoelace: A Forward-thinking Library of Web Components I&aposve been having a lot of fun with Stencil and web components lately. Back in January, I decided to use it to completely redesign Shoelace , an open source project I created a few years ago. July 24, 2020     A Free HTML, CSS, and JavaScript Beautifier Ten years ago, I launched DirtyMarkup to clean up dirty code. It was a fun little tool, but its best feature was that it was easy to use and didn&apost have intrusive advertisements. May 22, 2019     Let's Encrypt Renews But Browsers Still Seeing Old/Expired SSL Certificate This morning was frustrating. I recently upgraded my VPS from the deprecated letsencrypt client to the newer cerbot client and generated new certificates for all my personal domains. I thought everything was fine — until I kept seeing intermittent SSL errors. May 10, 2019     Introducing Surreal CMS 7 Last November was the 10 year mark for Surreal CMS , a content management service I created to manage static (and mostly static) websites. April 26, 2019     Getting Duplicate IDs in an HTML Document I needed a way to identify all HTML elements with duplicate IDs. This is a seemingly simple task, but unfortunately, I didn&apost find anything out there that fit the bill. April 4, 2019     A Clever Way to Style the "mark" Element I was checking out the awesome CashNotify app today and I noticed a beautiful style for highlighting text in their testimonials : February 1, 2019     Opening a New Window After an Async Operation I was working on an OAuth implementation the other day and needed to open a third-party auth page in a new window. August 28, 2018     Surreal CMS: The easiest way to edit a website Surreal CMS is a great solution for freelancers, agencies, or anyone that needs to edit a website. In just moments, you can hook it up to just about any website and start editing. June 12, 2018     Bootstrap 4 Switches Here is a fully customizable switch component I created for Bootstrap 4. November 10, 2017     Adding a Checked State to Bootstrap 4 Dropdown Menus Bootstrap&aposs dropdown menus are pretty awesome, but they lack a checked state. Think macOS or Windows: October 22, 2017     Adding Tips to Bootstrap 4 Dropdown Menus Sometimes, dropdown menus just look better when they have tips to reference their opening element. Here&aposs a SCSS snippet I created that gives you tips in Bootstrap 4. October 22, 2017     Zipping Multiple Folders Into Separate Zip Files Here&aposs a bash script that will zip all folders in the current directory into separate .zip files: July 31, 2017     Shoelace.css – A Back to the Basics CSS Starter Kit I spent some time last week working on a free CSS boilerplate I&aposm calling Shoelace.css . It&aposs kinda like Bootstrap, but a lot leaner and pure CSS. You don&apost need a preprocessor like Sass or Less to use it, but it&aposs still highly customizable with CSS variables . July 27, 2017     Downloading a List of URLs Automatically I recently needed to download a bunch of files from Amazon S3, but I didn&apost have direct access to the bucket — I only had a list of URLs. July 21, 2017     Surreal CMS Acquires PageLime Nearly a decade ago, I launched my first SaaS application. It was a new take on content management — a hosted CMS that reads/writes directly to a web server and uses class attributes to define content regions. July 14, 2017     Rebuilding Your Spotlight Index in macOS Sierra I use Spotlight more than I like to admit, usually for launching apps. Recently, some of my apps and files stopped appearing — even ones I access frequently. July 14, 2017     CSS Spinners Made Easy Here&aposs a simple way to create your own CSS spinners (i.e. loaders) without any images or JavaScript. It&aposs lightweight, easy to use, and completely customizable. July 12, 2017     Importing Plain CSS Files with Sass/SCSS When I first started using Sass, there was one thing that drove me crazy about it compared to Less. For some reason, including a plain CSS file just wasn&apost something the compiler wanted to do: February 9, 2017     Determining Your App's Base Directory in Node.js Determining your app&aposs base dir (or document root if you&aposre from a PHP background) isn&apost as straight forward as you&aposd think in Node. Here&aposs a little trick to get a globally available reference to your app&aposs root directory. February 9, 2017     Older Posts Search for: Topics Business Design Development News Resources Tips Tutorials RSS Feed JSON Feed , LLC is a small web development studio based in Central Florida. We blog about web design, web development, technology, bootstrapping, startups, and other awesome things. Learn more about us. , LLC · Est’d 2007 · Powered by Postleaf ...