As part of the next step in learning React, I’ve been moving the business logic for one of the components I made early on into a custom hook. The component I’m refactoring displays a table, along with controls for pagination and filtering. I moved the logic for sending the request to the custom hook, along…Read More
Tag: JavaScript
How to get the intrinsic coordinates on an image mouse click
I’m currently working on a program that can generate a customizable image report. It needs to allow the user to click on areas in an image to specify certain areas used when generating the report. One method of doing this would be to use a two dimensional drawing library, like Two.js. Unfortunately, these libraries require…Read More
How to Script Interactions With a Website
As part of the process for clients signing up for a service for The Blog Fixer, they must create an administrator for us with the correct permissions that allow us to install plugins and take backups. When we do free promotions, as many as half of everyone who signs up for the promotion never end…Read More
Sending Daily Reports to a Slack Channel from Google Sheets
If you’ve ever done any kind of commission or service work for many people, and at some point started to outsource or hire out that work, you’ve probably experienced the stress that comes with depending on other people to make sure work gets done in a timely manner. There’s always the chance someone will forget…Read More
Using Node Applications to Create Tools and Automate Processes
As part of my job scanning and fixing many WordPress websites, I go through a lot of repeated tasks. Sometimes, I will scan as many as a hundred websites, each website requiring steps for marking down different bits of information. One thing that takes a bit of time that I really want to automate, is…Read More