Tom Busby

I Will Never Score 100 On My Articles

2025-04-02

Two thing I refuse to fix for Google PageSpeed Insights

Pancake/Waffle Calculator

2024-08-12

I love making pancakes and waffles, so I made a calculator to help measure out the ingredients!

Supercharging My Bookmarks With Full Text Search

2024-01-14

I was getting annoyed at how hard it is to search my bookmarks, so I did something about it.

Long Stache

2023-11-04

I saw the other day that Logstash has both an HTTP input plugin and an HTTP output plugin, and that gave me this genius idea.

CAPTCHAed Red Handed

2023-09-06

What would a CAPTCHA look like if it tested people's instincts rather than their ability to identify objects?

Gutenberg Blocks - _.contains is not a function

2023-08-20

Are you developing custom blocks for Gutenberg in Wordpress, using a custom Webpack configuration, and getting this error? Did you configure the Dependency Extraction Webpack Plugin correctly?

A Prank With IFrames

2022-04-01

It's April Fool's Day today, and I'm reminded of a small prank I did in college using IFrames.

Hosting Websites & Services Without a Static IP Address

2022-02-19

One of the challenges of hosting a web server at home is having domain names point to your home IP address at all times. Here's how I tackled that issue.

New Site 2022

2022-01-25

New year new website. It’s been a busy year for me in 2021.

Website Launch

2020-01-27

After a couple months of working on my website I have finally programmed enough of it that I feel ready to purchase some server space and put it up for others to see.

Web Development