February 2016 – Chuck Grimmett

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.

February 29, 2016

Apps, Jekyll
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.

February 28, 2016
Infrastructure and Git Best Practices

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

February 25, 2016

Git, Infrastructure
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.

February 24, 2016

Infrastructure, PHP
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.

February 23, 2016

Jekyll, PHP
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.

February 22, 2016

Philosophy of work
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.

February 21, 2016
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.

February 21, 2016

Git, PHP
CSS Inheritance, Datetime Conversions in PHP

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

February 20, 2016

CSS, PHP
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.

February 19, 2016

Jekyll, Liquid, Philosophy of work
How to keep track of files and requests in Slack

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

February 18, 2016

Apps, productivity
Useful Analytics, Scalability, and RSI

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

February 17, 2016

Business, Hardware, Statistics & Analytics
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.

February 16, 2016

Infrastructure, Javascript, Meteor
Readable Code Snippets, VPN Clients, and Privacy

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

February 15, 2016

Apps, Infrastructure, Javascript, Privacy
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.

February 13, 2016

Apps, PHP
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.

February 12, 2016

Apps, CSS, Javascript, Jekyll, Project Management
Jekyll Upgrades and Liquid Templates

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

February 11, 2016

Jekyll, Liquid
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

February 10, 2016

CSS, Git, Python

Month: February 2016