December 6, 2020

If you're developing a Chrome extension for Gmail, you should know that Google's documentation on when a content script runs is wrong.

June 22, 2020

There are a few ways to block an IP address in an AWS/Windows environment, but only a couple good ones. I'll show you the bad and good ones.

May 13, 2020

If your app needs to let a user pick a file from his Google Drive, you might consider using the …

April 23, 2020

A best practice for using OAuth2 is to use incremental authorization, but I found it mostly useless. I'll compare it to eating out at a restaurant.

March 17, 2020

If you’ve deployed sites to IIS, at some point, you probably Googled how to make your site redirect from the …

February 15, 2020

WPForms is great for designing forms and adding them to your WordPress posts. If you want the data to go somewhere other than MySQL, here's how you do it.

December 11, 2019

Using the Gmail API to retrieve From Address/Name information for Drafts and Messages comes along with some idiosyncrasies. Here's how to deal with them.

October 17, 2019

The Gmail API is tricky with plain text messages. It forces a plain text MIME part when you don't want one, and overwrites your plain text with its own.

July 12, 2019

When developing a Chrome extension, you might need to get an XMLHttpRequest that’s part of a content script to send cookies …

February 5, 2019

On June 12, 2018, Google disabled inline installation of Chrome extensions. This means that now you can’t directly install an extension …

February 4, 2019

If you’re a developer using any part of Google’s API, you’ve likely received notices informing you that come March 7, …

October 16, 2018

If you’re the developer of a Chrome extension, after a user installs your extension from the Chrome Web Store, you may …