I show you how I permanently un-adblock Google Analytics to get full visitor insights on my pages through some zany techniques. I thought about patenting these, but it’s more fun to share. Enjoy total visitor analytics despite regex-based adblockers and DNS blockers (e.g. Pi-Hole).
Here we create a Tampermonkey script for Chrome/Brave to make Trello awesome again by adding custom column colours that key off the partial column name, setting a black background, and by removing many “free trial” distractions.
Here is a simple way to always stay active on Slack or Enterprise Slack, even if the browser is minimized or out of focus, without giving away your password to an online service or needing an API key. We only need to change four characters.
Things break. Just the other day through a series of seemingly unrelated events, a new Microsoft x509 certificate made its way into a security handshake process which went unnoticed until current single sign-on sessions began to expire. Had we also had automated security testing, we would have caught this one-off. I’ll explain how I set […]
GoAccess web log analyzer is a beautiful tool to show real-time traffic and stats – including GeoIP information, bandwidth usage, and visitor time distributions – of my web projects and apps over and above Google’s Webmaster Tools and UA reporting. At a glance I can see current traffic and historic traffic just by adding a […]
Here’s how to go about debugging, stepping through, and profiling remote code like a breeze. These are the steps I took to install/enable Xdebug on a remote LAMP stack and debug/profile hosted code using PhpStorm and a Chrome extension. As a bonus I’ll share how I debug cURL requests with Xdebug too. 1. Setup remote […]
Using a fabulous WordPress plugin called External Links to put little arrow icons beside external links was the task this morning. Installation and setup took less than 60 seconds and all worked well. But wait, there are arrow icons in my header navigation links. Surely as per the documentation I can add the noicon class […]