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Hybrid buggy whip illustration showing transition from vintage leather to glowing digital circuit design, symbolizing the shift from traditional craftsmanship to future-focused engineering. Created by Eric L. Hepperle using ChatGPT and Affinity Publisher for the blog post “The Buggy-Whip Phenomena of Change” (© 2026).

The Buggy-Whip Phenomena of Change and what it means to be a Design Engineer

Are you a remote Web Developer or Graphic Designer and it feels like there’s been a DRASTIC SHIFT in the Job Market? In this post, I reflect on the dramatic shift happening in the remote tech job market in first-quarter 2026, why traditional web and graphic design roles feel increasingly unstable, and how redefining ourselves […]

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NOTES: 2021-04-26 | Notes on LinkedIn Learning PHP Videos

These notes are continued from this post. How to Retrieve Data from a MySQL database with PHP (with mysqli) Best practice: Always free result and connection when done. db_connect_guide.php // Credentials $dbhost = ‘localhost’; $dbuser = ‘webuser’; $dbpass = ‘secret’; $ dbname = ‘globe_bank’; // 1. Create DB Connection $conn = mysqli_connect( $dbhost, $dbuser, $dbpass,

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NOTES: 2021-04-26 | Thoughts on PHP and Life

I have all these PHP snippets on my desk of things I learned taking Linkedin Learning PHP courses. I took a 4-hr long coding test for a remote PHP/LAMP Developer job with the Huntsville, AL branch of NASA. I was excited for the opportunity, but learning I was lacking on all kinds of modern programming techniques,

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Code Sample: JavaScript ES6 – Scrape OneTab Links (2018)

Here is a program I wrote in 2018. It usues vanilla JavaScript ES6 to scrape and parse links on a OneTab bookmarks page and outputs the results as HTML. While the resulting JavaScript document isn’t a web page, per se, it can be copied into an HTML document and saved. (also on GitHub) /* Program

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Eric's Dothan Eagle first ad: Matthews Dale Florist (2019-08-25)

First Advert Design as Graphic Artist for the Dothan Eagle

It’s official: I’m a professional GRAPHIC DESIGNER! My first newspaper advertisement I designed as the news Graphic Artist at the Dothan Eagle, in Dothan, Alabama was published on Friday, August 23, 2019. Here is a screenshot I took from the E-Edition: Date Published: 2019-08-25 Date Updated: 2022-09-06

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