This is part two in a series about creating my own email marketing infrastructure. Last week we talked about how I got started with my email marketing. Click here to read that if you haven’t already. I found a collection of businesses I could contact, got it saved locally so I can work with it, …
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Email Marketing From Scratch (Part 1)
Getting An Email List I’ve been pushing email marketing of my services a lot lately. Chances are if you are reading this blog post, you may well have come from one of the hundreds of emails I’ve sent over the last few weeks. And I thought to myself, this might be a great chance to …
Image Formats and You
So, are you tired of posting 20MB PNG images to your website and making all of your web developers cry as they die a little more inside? The secret to making web optimized images is actually pretty simple. There are three main rasterized formats you should be aware of, and one other one you should …
Can’t have a party without a Mask
For a few months this year, I was working with an internet marketing company in the middle of a hard pivot into print marketing. Personal disagreements with this as a business strategy aside, it did put me into contact with a number of unique problems to solve. And if you know anything about me, it’s …
Automated Site Security
This blog post is going to be a little different for two reasons. This is going to be a discussion of a security product that, to the best of my knowledge, is still in active use on real websites, so publicly posting the code would not be in the best interest of those clients. The …
DM Tools 0.4a
Edited: 7/24/19 to reflect changes made in 0.4.1a This is probably the largest single update I’ve made since starting this project. First of all, all of the non-setting data saved on the localStorage object is now compressed so that DMs who have lots of rolls, npcs, and notes saved don’t have to worry as much …
DM Tools 0.3a
The big change this time is that I added the ability to save and name dice notation, as well as share them via URLs. To see this new sharing feature in action, use the following link: https://stephkennedy.dev/experiments/dm_tools/?rolls=NobwRAdghgtgpmAXGAYgSwE5wEZQDZ5gA0kA9gC5TlqkRJgAcAJgGxgC+R4089AamgDGNAK4BnAAQBZUoIDWcDAE9iZStVr0AjEwAsHALpA The link will add base level damage rolls for Fireball and Vicious Mockery. There is an upper limit …
DM Tools 0.2a
I made some minor changes to make the tools easier to use on all devices, and to make room for new features in the future. The tools are in the navigation, or they can be found here: https://stephkennedy.dev/experiments/dm_tools If you don’t see all of the changes, reload the page. Caching continues to be a development …
Making The Dice Roll
In addition to the many other geekdom hobbies I practice, I am a big fan of tabletop RPGs. I got into it about four years ago with the free version of the D&D 3.5 rules, moved from that to Pathfinder, and just recently got the D&D 5e core rule books this last Christmas. I love …
Adding Night Mode
The Problem: To paraphrase colleague of mine, in 2019 anything that isn’t Night Mode should be illegal. If you’re not familiar with the concept of Night Mode, it’s a simple change that usually just switches the background and foreground colors, usually resulting in a black or gray background with lighter text. It’s called “Night Mode” …
