How to Create a Screen Recording with Quicktime / / No Comments Creating screen recordings is an essential skill for web developers. Screen recordings can illustrate new features, bugs, or a variety of other ideas. I’m often asked what app I use to create screen recordings and people are shocked when I tell them Quicktime! Let’s review how to create a screen recording with with Mac’s native Quicktime! In Short: Open Quicktime Choose File -New Screen Recording Record your screen actions Press COMMAND+CONTROL+ESC to stop and save Step 1: Open Quicktime To get started with the process of recording your screen, open the Quicktime app. The Quicktime app will immediately open a dialog to import or play a video — close that dialog as... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: create, Quicktime, Recording, Screen
Adding Form Participation Support to Web Components / / No Comments Many years ago when the web platform began to really improve, when everything was "HTML5 this" and "HTML5 that", I remember being particularly excited by the updates to forms. I started my web career doing a lot of form processing and have always thought it was one of the more important aspects of the platform. Anything that improved that was a good thing. In my explorations of web components, I was ecstatic to discover that web components can be participants in forms. So what do we mean by that? What’s a Form Field? # Form fields have a number of different features, including: Including a name and value as part of the overall form. This is the bare minimum thing a... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Adding, Components, form, Participation, Support
How to Get Mac Battery Level from Command Line / / No Comments I’m a big fan of having as much information as I can get within the command line. I couldn’t go without knowing which git branch I’m on, for example. Another important piece of information I like having is my current battery percentage. To get the current battery level from command line, you can run: pmset -g batt | grep -Eo "\d+%" Since I get lost in command line for hours at a time, having the percentage present saves me the labor of shifting my eyes outside of shell. What information do you like having in your command line? The post How to Get Mac Battery Level from Command Line appeared first on David Walsh Blog. David Walsh Blog… more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: battery, Command, from, Level, line
How to Blur Faces in a Video from Command Line / / No Comments Privacy is always incredibly important, especially with visual media where you may not have the permission of individuals in the video. If you’re filming something in public, it’s likely you’ll catch someone’s face who simply doesn’t want or need to be identified. This recently got me to thinking: what’s the easiest way to blur faces in a video via command line? The best open source utility I found for blurring faces in a video was deface. Let’s have a look at how you can use deface to blur faces in videos! Start by downloading Python-based via pip: python3 -m pip install deface With deface installed, simply provide the video name and get the output... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Blur, Command, faces, from, line, video
10 Great Multipurpose WordPress Themes (Sponsored) / / No Comments Multipurpose themes are flexible WordPress templates that can be used to create virtually any kind of website. They are often best-sellers, and because they are so popular there are a lot of them to choose from. Too many in fact unless you have time to spare to find one that is best for you. Where there may be an instance where a specialty theme would suit you best. You can generally count on a multipurpose WordPress theme to get the job done. Especially if you are tasked with developing a variety of websites for a variety of clients. You can use them for developing a corporate website, eCommerce site, personal blogging site, or a portfolio. In this post, we’ve saved you time by narrowing things... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: GREAT, Multipurpose, Sponsored, Themes, WordPress
Restart Mac From Command Line / / No Comments Restarting and shutting down a computer remotely is a frequent task for remote system administrators. As someone that writes many shell scripts, I also find myself automating system restarts. Let’s look at a few ways to restart Mac systems from command line! Restart a Local Mac To restart a local Mac system from command line, you can execute: sudo shutdown -r now Restart a Remote Mac To restart a remote Mac system, you can execute: ssh -l {AdminSystemAddress} sudo shutdown -r now Restart at a Specific Time You can specify a restart at a specific time: # Format: sudo shutdown -r hhmm # Restart at 11:30pm local time sudo shutdown -r 2330 System restarts are good after massive updates... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Command, from, line, Restart
How to Use Your Domain on Bluesky / / No Comments Bluesky is a hot new social networking platform that functions like Twitter from Twitter’s original founder. New users are flooding into the platform as a respite from Elon Musk’s vision of Twitter and the fumbles that have happened since his takeover. Upon signing up for Bluesky, your username defaults to {yourdesiredhandle}.bsky.social, but there’s a better and more secure option. One of Bluesky’s awesome features is the ability to base your username on a hostname’s DNS record. In short, if you control a hostname’s DNS, you can essentially verify yourself. For example, my Bluesky username is davidwalsh.name. Let’s look at how you can base your username... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Bluesky, domain
Updating and Supporting URL Parameters in JavaScript / / No Comments Not quite a long time ago, but roughly two years ago I wrote a blog post on updating and supporting, URL parameters with Vue.js. The idea was this: Given an application that lets you perform various tweaks, it would be nice if the URL was updated to reflect the current state of the application. This would let you bookmark, or share, the URL with others and they would get the same view as you. In that post, I built a very basic "data filtering" application and then updated it to support updates to the URL. I thought I’d revisit that post and demonstrate building it in vanilla JavaScript. As always, I’d love to hear your thoughts on this, especially if you’ve done something... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: JavaScript, Parameters, Supporting, Updating