We have some news…
Like, real news…on the site now. I’m pulling RSS feeds from google news, the verge, arstechnica and other places to new “news” section here on dreaddontdie.com.
Month: December 2017
Hello from Node.js!
Notice anything new?! Probably not…but now the entire site is running on Node.js! Along with the new Node.js backend, I revamped the development and deployment processes: Using Visual Studio Code for Mac as my editor (instead of Visual Studio Community Edition on Windows) Bitbucket.org for code repository (instead of keeping it local on my Windows […]
Moving the blog from .NET to Javascript rendering – done!
My site uses WordPress for the blog behind the scenes. To display the blog here (with my own font and colors), i read the blog programmtically using C# and output the results to the browser. This took about 20 lines of .NET code. In a true testament to the ease of Javascript, here is the […]
Moving the site to Node.js
dreaddontdie has always been an website written on .NET and hosted on Windows. That is about to change. I’m moving the site over to node.js. I want to do this for a few reasons: I use a Mac on a daily basis and I run a Windows VM for .NET development. I want a native […]
Automatic Photo refresh
In addition to displaying random images from a collection on the homepage, it now changes a random photo on the page every 10 seconds to another image from the collection. First, I created the timer and it will call the changeImg function every 10 seconds (10000 milliseconds): var myTimer = setInterval(changeImg, 10000); Then I get […]
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