Phillip Marashian - Coding Crossroads

ChatGPT explains Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)

Introduction to Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) Have you ever heard of digital collectibles or unique digital assets like art, music, or even tweets? These are called Non-Fungible Tokens, or NFTs, and they're a big deal in the world of cryptocurrency. But don't worry, you don't

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ChatGPT and 5e Table Top Gaming: Enhancing the Encounter Creation Experience

As a Dungeon Master (DM), one of the most important aspects of creating a 5e campaign is crafting engaging and exciting encounters for your players. Whether it's battling fierce monsters,

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Brave the Blizzard: An Epic Encounter with a Snowman Golem and Winter Foes

Are you ready for an epic encounter that will test the mettle of your players? Look no further than the battle against a snowman golem and its wintery minions. Player

My Philosophy on the Basics

Good engineers shouldn't care if they know the latest framework. Good engineers should care that they understand the fundamentals of the language used to create the latest framework. Today's it's

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The Altar of the Elements

Having fun using ChatGPT. This time I've been writing 5e encounters. Here's the prompts I used: write 5e encounter with a ninja elementalist rewrite with the ninja elementalist as the

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Using ChatGPT to Write a Blog Post

Introduction:Have you ever struggled to come up with ideas for a blog post? Or perhaps you have an idea, but you're not sure how to organize your thoughts or what direction to take the post in. If so, you might be interested in

Next.js

Editing the Next.js Root Div

If you've done any development with next.js then you have no doubtably seen the root div on the page. <div id="__next"> /* your app */ </div>I'm working on a project where I needed to add a class to this

Fun with CSS Selectors

I was listening to the Syntax podcast and they threw out the question What is the difference between the + and ~ selectors.Hmmmm, the ~ selector..... what did that do again? So decided to test a few selectors out. I'm going to go over these css

Why Coding Crossroads?

Back in 2012 I had grandiose ideas of creating an epic blog. I was doing full stack development using a smorgasbord of technologies and languages. HTML, CSS, Javascript, jQuery, node, PHP, mySQL, Wordpress, mootools, backbone.js, actionscript and probably a slew of other techs.

Today npm stopped working

I went to start a new project and did my usual housekeeping npm init -y git init npm i aws-sdkAnd today npm decided to hang on the install. Cancel, rm

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Things I Take for Granted

I subscribe to Medium and get a daily email with a selection of javascript/programming articles. It's a good practice that helps me keep tabs on what's happening in the industry (or at least what other people think is happening in the industry).

Next.js

Using Redis with Next.js

I'm a really big fan of using redis for caching. I'm also a big fan of Next.js. A React framework that incorporates frontend code with backend code.... what isn't there to like?

React

useBoolean hook

Here's a quick React hook for handling boolean values in your React functional components.

dynamodb

Running Dynamodb local with Docker and Persistent Data Storage

I am working on a project that is using Dynamodb as the primary database. I had not used dynamodb local before and wanted to take it for a spin.

Wordpress

Add class to wordpress body_class() function

I recently needed to add a unique class to the body class for various templates. I didn't want to write a function that cluttered the global namespace, so I wrote this function that uses create_function.

Wordpress

Manage multiple Wordpress sites with InfiniteWP

I just recently installed InfiniteWP, an awesome app for managing multiple Wordpress sites. What's different about this one? For starters, you can manage sites from different servers and domains, something I haven't come across before. The installation was quick and easy, and I had

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Displaying a table in Gmail

I recently exported an image from Fireworks as a table, to use in an email. Everything looked good, until I tested in GMail. The table cells were all over the place, and I was almost ready to go back to the drawing board.

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Controlling Youtube iframe with javascript

If you need to control youtube iframes with Javascript here's a couple places to look: stackoverflow.com and Youtube API Reference The nut and bolts of the needed code are: Note: This code came from stackoverflow.com var tag = document.createElement('script'); tag.src