New Blog
Over the past 6 years I’ve written well over 300 posts on my original blog, The Philosophical Geek. As I was creating AndyMercer.net, I decided I wanted my blog to be incorporated and housed in the same location.
Read More ->Over the past 6 years I’ve written well over 300 posts on my original blog, The Philosophical Geek. As I was creating AndyMercer.net, I decided I wanted my blog to be incorporated and housed in the same location.
Read More ->WordPress recently updated the built-in admin page that allows users to search for plugins hosted on the official plugin repository. One aspect of this update gave all plugins the ability to have icons.
Read More ->While a lot of languages have pretty well defined sets of best practices, CSS seems to fluctuate on a monthly basis. Is the cascade good or bad this week?
Read More ->At work I have to send several emails out each day. One of these is exactly the same each day with the exception of the date. Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to schedule these?
Read More ->I recently read an article about discrimination’s legal implications and had some thoughts I’d like to share.
Read More ->I’ve been working in my spare time recently on finishing up my Smart Search For Excel app, and today I got to the point where I wanted to show it off to some friends.
Read More ->Several days ago I wrote about finally solving the text in SVG problem. The key is to convert your font file to base64 data stream and include it in the SVG.
Read More ->Last week I attempted another SVG logo conversion, and failed. This was because the logo used Palatino Tinotype, a font that appears to be safe but isn’t.
Read More ->My third attempt at conversion to SVG is a logo with text. It took nearly 4 hours, because it’s got 16 different SVG elements (without counting the linear gradients.
Read More ->Less than two weeks ago I submitted a feature request to CodePen.io, for the ability to embed a ‘pen as an `SVG` image.
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