Email DNS Configuration
After recently releasing a web application for my sister, I soon found out that a lot of emails we sent as a confirmation were not delivered. I figured they were going to the Junk Mail folder, but I soon found…
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Get Every Penny Out of Your Virtual Gift Card
The Problem: Recently, I replaced all four tires on my GMC Yukon, and the promotion that I received offered a rebate in the form of gift cards. Both Firestone and GMC were offering rebates, so in the end I wound…
Finding Rows of Data with a Date Column and Foreign Key Grouped Closest to a Specific Date
This past week I was trying to solve a tricky MySQL database problem involving ORDER, GROUP, subqueries, and aggregated data. The problem I needed to solve in essence contained a single table with rows of data that had columns containing…
Register an Event Handler on a Shadow DOM Element Using Code with Lit Components
TL;DR The challenge I had with registering the event handler was finding the right time in the lit.dev lifecycle to catch the DOM element. On top of that, I had to find the element in the Shadow DOM. Well lit.dev…
My Stack
The project stack has several different components, and all of them change over time. I’m documenting the current stack as of March 2023. The following packages, components, and services are what I would use to start a new project. Now…