Chuck Grimmett

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Month: February 2016

  • Easier Syntax Highlighting, Downloading WordPress.com Email Followers, and Jekyll Tools

    Easier Syntax Highlighting, Downloading WordPress.com Email Followers, and Jekyll Tools

    TIL about easier syntax highlighting and how to download WordPress.com email subscribers in a CSV.

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  • Jekyll Tools

    Jekyll Tools

    A collection of Liquid templates I made for my Jekyll-powered blog: Adding open graph and Twitter cards, Disqus comments, posts by tag, a heatmap calendar for posts, and a book review template.

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  • Infrastructure and Git Best Practices

    Infrastructure and Git Best Practices

    Today I learned about best practices in development infrastructure and git.

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  • Checking for Keys and Looking Up Values in Arrays, Restricting Files in .htaccess

    Checking for Keys and Looking Up Values in Arrays, Restricting Files in .htaccess

    TIL how to check for keys and look up values in arrays, as well as how to restrict files via .htaccess.

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  • Basic Logging with PHP and Syntax Highlighting in Jekyll

    Basic Logging with PHP and Syntax Highlighting in Jekyll

    TIL how to do basic logging to CSV in PHP and how to highlight syntax in Jekyll.

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  • Thoughts on Providing Solutions, Learning, Culture, and Distractions

    Thoughts on Providing Solutions, Learning, Culture, and Distractions

    I didn’t do much technical work today besides some front-end debugging. Instead I did a lot of administrative and project management work and ended up thinking a lot about how I work.

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  • Toggl Slash Command for Slack

    Toggl Slash Command for Slack

    My first personal project that I released on Github – A custom slash command that enables users to put time entries into Toggl from Slack.

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  • Unicode Conversions in PHP and Remote Git Repos

    Unicode Conversions in PHP and Remote Git Repos

    TIL how to convert unicode characters in PHP and I released my first personal project on Github.

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  • CSS Inheritance, Datetime Conversions in PHP

    CSS Inheritance, Datetime Conversions in PHP

    TIL about date/time conversions in PHP and a lesson about automatic inheritance in CSS.

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  • Doing the Work, Flipping the Status Quo, and Alphabetizing in Liquid

    Doing the Work, Flipping the Status Quo, and Alphabetizing in Liquid

    TIL how to sort tags alphabetically in Liquid and I did some reflection on work and the status quo.

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  • How to keep track of files and requests in Slack

    How to keep track of files and requests in Slack

    TIL how to keep track of files and requests in Slack.

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  • Useful Analytics, Scalability, and RSI

    Useful Analytics, Scalability, and RSI

    Today I learned how to tackle my RSI issues and I thought about useful analytics and product scalability.

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  • Meteor Basics, Secure Hash Algorithms, and 404 Error Pages

    Meteor Basics, Secure Hash Algorithms, and 404 Error Pages

    TIL the basics of Meteor, how to tell Apache where to find your 404 page, and all about secure hash algorithms.

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  • Readable Code Snippets, VPN Clients, and Privacy

    Readable Code Snippets, VPN Clients, and Privacy

    TIL how to make code snippets pretty, which VPN client to use, and common misconceptions about privacy.

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  • Photoshop Patterns, Homestead Provisioning, Composer Basics

    Photoshop Patterns, Homestead Provisioning, Composer Basics

    TIL two ways to tile patterns in Photoshop. One is manual and time consuming, the other is fast, easy, and less prone to error. I also re-learned some stuff about Homestead and Composer.

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  • Automating Drudgery, Project Planning, Parent Selectors, and Find and Replace

    Automating Drudgery, Project Planning, Parent Selectors, and Find and Replace

    TIL about what to consider when architecting and planning out a software development project, how to automate the tedious parts of my TIL posts, how to tackle the lack of parent selectors in CSS, and project-wide find and replace in Coda.

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  • Jekyll Upgrades and Liquid Templates

    Jekyll Upgrades and Liquid Templates

    TIL about upgrading Jekyll from 2 to 3 and how to make a TIL index template in Liquid.

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  • Pull requests, scraping Reddit, and flexbox quirks

    Pull requests, scraping Reddit, and flexbox quirks

    TIL about creating pull requests on Github, accessing Reddit’s APIs with Python and storing that data in MySQL, and quirks with CSS’s flexbox module

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