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Guide To Fade-In Effect On Scroll Into View

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Did you notice this fade-in??

Many of the UI we see today, whether it’s on TV, slideshow presentations, mobile apps and many other kinds of visuals, all incorporate some form of transition to keep the user engaged. A few days ago I was designing a mock e-commerce website for a local business and spent quite some time stuck on how to implement this fade-in effect. While there are a lot of ways to incorporate fade-in effects and there are many webpages showing you how to do so, I’ve found that there are no articles which matched the exact effect I was looking for, and thus I’m putting it here for the sake of documentation and knowledge sharing.

Read on to learn more about how to incorporate fade-in of elements the moment it is partly visible in the viewport.

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Simple Guide to WordPress Permalink

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Update 2023-02-11 : Added an additional check (modify “apache2.conf” file) at the end of the article in the case the existing method doesn’t work.

As I was reviving this site after its two-year hiatus, I noticed that I neglected to post an article detailing how to set up WordPress permalinks. Since it requires some modifications on the server side it took a bit of trial-and-error to re-enable it. If even I could forget how to make the settings after two years, then it is definitely reason enough to make an article out of it (for my own sake!).

Read on to learn more about why and how to set WordPress permalinks.

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JiyuuLife is Live Again!

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Wow, it’s been a while!

While neglecting to publish some new posts due to being busy with work, I also overlooked the fact that after the GCP trial period ends, there is only a 30-day grace period for you to update to non-free status before they TERMINATE your compute VM. This means that while your deployment history and GCP project will still be kept, everything else – including the things you installed/changed on your VM – will be wiped.

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The Difference Between Fresh and Stale Coffee Beans

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Introduction

Many folks who, like me, wish to try pour-over coffee will definitely look into some details online – via articles or videos – about what tools to prepare and how to make the best cup of coffee. Obviously it is without doubt that the pictures and demonstrations displayed will use the highest grade of tools and materials (coffee beans included). Viewers who want to imitate the pour-over technique may be disappointed to find their results to be sub-par and not what the pictures/videos portrayed at all.

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Applying For Rakuten Card

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Disclaimer: This is a guide I have migrated from a previous website I managed. The site was created in 2016 and so contents in this guide may be stale. I will update it with additional information when I have some time to do so (or if there is an immediate demand for it…!) Introduction Rakuten … Read more

Secure Your WordPress Using HTTPS

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(Update 2020-04-24: About two years after the making of this article, some of the content has changed, specifically regarding software updates for the GCP Click-To-Deploy VM, as well as different prompts from LetsEncrypt. The post has been updated to reflect the changes.)

This is part 3 of a three-part guide to setting up and configuring WordPress hosted on Google Cloud Platform and registered with a Google Domain URL. Readers should make sure their WordPress instance is running and behaving properly using GCP, have WordPress admin access, and registered their custom domain (eg http://www.example.com) before attempting this section.

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Registering Google Domains to Google Cloud WordPress

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This is part 2 of a three-part guide to setting up and configuring WordPress hosted on Google Cloud Platform and registered with a Google Domain URL. Readers should make sure their WordPress instance is running and behaving properly using GCP and have WordPress admin access before attempting this guide. You can read part 1 here.

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How To Deploy WordPress Using Google Cloud Click-to-Deploy

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While considering what to write for my first How-To article, I came to a realization that the entire process for deploying WordPress and getting it to run on a cloud provider with a custom domain is a rather arduous process. While there are many guides scattered around the internet detailing the various stages of setting up, the concept of a holistic, DIY-everything guide is missing – especially if you go into the details of EXACTLY what platforms and services you are using. Therefore, I’d like to write a comprehensive guide for how to deploy a WordPress instance by yourself using Google Cloud, followed by how to register this WordPress to a custom domain hosted by Google Domain. Finally, I will walk you through the steps of SSL verification and having all traffic route via HTTPS for enhanced security.

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Introduction to JiyuuLife

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Greetings!

If you’re seeing this post then you must have been referred to here by me personally, clicked on a link from my social accounts, or got really lucky and came here from organic search engine results (just kidding, you are a good samaritan and it had nothing to do with luck, but it might have some to do with my SEO skills 🙂 ).

This post is an introduction to this site and outlines some of the goals and motivations of this site. 

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