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Blogger: How to Add Merlin's Lemonade Stand to Your Blog

Merlin's Lemonade Stand = Followers Gadget. I call it "Merlin's Lemonade Stand". 🤔 Because we don't follow a lemonade stand, it's a stand. We can, but usually we don't. And it belongs to Merlin. Double bafflements. Like following a building? Oi, I follow this post office for days! It doesn't move. For our information, I am operating with the literal, original, physical sense of follow . As in to go after something in motion . Let's go metaphorical. Steps On blogger.com dashboard, we go to Layout menu. Then, depends on your chosen template, we find and click the + Add a Gadget . Indeed, we would find it without searching it first. Scroll down a bit on the pop-up menu to find Followers gadget ➡️ pick (click) that. We can reposition the Followers gadget to suit our aesthetics and the gadget's visibility. ➡️ Hit Save. [Optional] Then, we change th...

Chess: Offence Against Modern Defence: Hm Variation

I played white (offence) in 3 minutes Super Blitz on Lichess as Anonymous. Opening theory? Ignored. Material balance? Hm. In this game, as a drunk bard, my strategy was an alternating: Let's try this - Oh, well - Don't mind if I do! 🤦 It was hilarious at the end (22nd banter). 💥 I didn't realise I constructed a proper prison. Hm, alright, I did plot that. You can use your left and right arrows on your keyboard or use the mouse scroll to see the moves back and forth on the chessboard. But first, click the board. Hm. 🤔 Chess Training on Lichess Learn 🧐 There's LEARN menu on Lichess. You might want to navigate the sub-menus to find out more. From Chess basics to Coaches . Puzzles 🤔 I usually do puzzles on Lichess to sharpen my positioning — so many variations! It is not timed, thus it's great to fill our spare time. Three to six puzzles will be sufficient per day. Or per every time we visit Liches...

Google Apps Script Shares a Global Namespace: Use Unique Function Names

Hi. 🙂 I experienced this in my Google Apps Script project. I thought each .gs file was isolated, nope . It's like embedding multiple .js files in an HTML . All script files are loaded into the same global context, as if they're one continuous script. For example, we have many .js files (without using type="module" ) in the HTML . Each script has this similarly named function, init : First script. For instance, it is defined in <script src="./js/firstScript.js"></script> : function init() { console.log("Log from first script."); } Then in the other script. Defined in <script src="./js/secondScript.js"></script> : function init() { console.log("Log from second script."); } Then calling that init function somewhere from another script file. Let's say from <script src="./js/main.js"></script> : init(); Depe...

The Requested Operation Requires Elevation

This response in Windows terminal: The requested operation requires elevation. 🤨 What in bleating sheep does that mean? Elevation? 🤔 Of what? Spirit? Cholesterol? Was I trying to open a gateway to the underworld via syntax? Hm. Indeed, it means the execution needs administrator privilege. But the phrasing is utterly woolgathering . 🐏 Security Concerns They might claim, We made it that way so it would confuse the hacker. No, Karen. It made my eyebrows went up. Karen, hacker means the person hacks things, even your woolgathering sentence. With a butter knife, because an axe will be excessive. Hacker won't scope the "hacking". I hack, thus I scope myself to Rust. That's barmy. Rust has many things in it, which one? Is it the oxidation? 👀 Karen? Or was it Barry? 🤔 Oh well. 🤷 My phrasing would be: The command needs administrator role. I dare you to activate it through script. Do you accept? Oh, you do? Or a rare breed of civilis...

Simple Node.js Dev Server with Auto-Reload for HTML/CSS/JS

Greetings. 😃 Sometimes, all we need is an HTML , a little CSS , and some JS — no React circus, no Vite firehose. But we still want our page to reload when we tweak a pixel. In here, we will use Browsersync 🏆 Node.js package. And of course, you need to install Node.js first on your system. For code editor, I use VSCode 🏆 . Assuming Node.js is already installed. To check installed Node.js version on your system, open your terminal (Command Prompt / PowerShell — Windows) then type: node --version We can employ nvm to make Node.js installation easier to manage. Available for Windows ( nvm-windows ) and Linux (default nvm project — for Debian, Arch, Fedora, Slackware, etc. — provided you've got bash , zsh , or any POSIX-compliant shell.) For macOs, we can install default nvm project — use Homebrew , add env to profile. In this setup, I use Node.js v22.12.0 . Setup Let's do this on Windows 11 operating system — with Node.j...

Avocado

Avocado, with its might, of being shaped like a water droplet, enlarged, green then muddy brownish-purple (ripe) — sometimes with those black spots, looks like a testicle, hanging on a tree — is indeed originally named testicle. 🤣🤦 I kid you not, dear reader. Avocado ( Persea americana ) is native to Central America and southern Mexico. It was first domesticated by the indigenous peoples there thousands of years ago — long before the Spanish even knew the New World (the continent of America). In Nahuatl (language or group of languages belonging to the Uto-Aztecan language family), it is āhuacatl . It literally means testicle. They call it that due to the shape of the fruit. Āhuacatl is pronounced as aː.wakat͡ɬ . AH-wah-kahtl. The final -tl is a single consonant ( t͡ɬ ), common in Nahuatl, pronounced like a soft, quick "tl" with the tongue flicking near the roof of the mouth (think of a quick "tul" but not fully separated). The Spanish Then came the Sp...

Chimera (1991 Mini-Series)

I watched Chimera (1991) few days behind. Because I think it would be about the abomination beast, Chimera — the ancient Greek mythology creature. Well, it was James and a female orangutan, named Daffodil, had a baby. The baby was suddenly a fully grown oranguman . Well, fast forwarded, not a gradual progression — as presented in the series. It is 1991 British telly magic at its finest. I made up James, orangutan, Daffodil, and oranguman. But basically, it was like that. It was supposed to be a science-fiction horror — but by golly, I couldn't stop thinking about other things while watching. They indeed did serious acts, proper. But my thoughts wandered elsewhere from episode 1 to 4. Not to mention the rich dialect in every scene. I discussed it with ChatGPT. Hm. People who say "rather" like it's a weapon will shoot rather at me. Ten paces. Rather rather rather. I remember hearing these: Proplem = problem. Sheets = sh💩ts. Saintist = ...
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