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At The Remnant: Radical Individualism, Satisfaction, and Irresponsibility

February 3, 2020Chuck Grimmett

I’m an occasional contributor at The Remnant. Isaac Morehouse issued a challenge to me and I responded. It is all about why I push myself to make things despite how irresponsible it is.

How to Learn New Software Quickly

January 23, 2020Chuck Grimmett

If you’re just starting a new job and need to learn a bunch of new tools, or are trying to pitch a company and want to show that you have the skills it takes to work there, this article is for you.

Advent of Code, Day 12: Ember Simple Auth

December 12, 2019Chuck Grimmett

Tried adding authentication with Ember Simple Auth and got stuck.

Advent of Code, Day 11: Rendering Charts from Ember Data

December 12, 2019Chuck Grimmett

Today, with some guidance from Dave Wasmer, I got charts rendering with Ember Data stored in Firebase.

Advent of Code, Day 10: Setting up Firebase

December 11, 2019Chuck Grimmett

Today I set up Firebase and saved and retrieved plant and garden data from it.

Advent of Code, Day 9: More Ember Data

December 9, 2019Chuck Grimmett

Another short session of work on a plane before I go home and pack up my apartment. Today I finished separating different functional parts of my components into individual components and started integrating Ember data.

Advent of Code, Day 8: Learning Ember Data

December 8, 2019Chuck Grimmett

Another short session of work on a plane before I go home and pack up my apartment. Today I finished separating different functional parts of my components into individual components and started integrating Ember data.

Advent of Code, Day 7: Figure out routes

December 7, 2019Chuck Grimmett

Today I’m traveling, but I got some work done on the plane: I figured out my routes and started breaking apart components to their individual functions.

Advent of Code, Day 6: Plant Addition Flow

December 7, 2019Chuck Grimmett

Today I handled the plant addition flow more gracefully.

Advent of Code, Day 5: Form Components

December 6, 2019Chuck Grimmett

Today I built reusable form components and updated the chart with form submission data.

Advent of Code, Day 4: Responsive D3 Chart in an Ember Component

December 5, 2019Chuck Grimmett

Today I sorted my data, made the scale relative, and made my Ember component D3 chart responsive.

Advent of Code, Day 3: D3 chart basics

December 4, 2019Chuck Grimmett

Today I went back into Ember land, set up pods, configured Tailwind, successfully rendered yesterday’s D3 mock inside a component, and got feedback from my first user.

Advent of Code, Day 2: D3 chart basics

December 3, 2019Chuck Grimmett

Today in Plant Gantt I figured out the basics of implementing the D3 gantt-style chart.

Advent of Code, Day 1: Picking a Project

December 2, 2019Chuck Grimmett

I decided to do my own Advent of Code project this year: Plant Gantt

How to download inline SVGs

November 20, 2019Chuck Grimmett

Downloading inline SVGs is a pain. Here is how I do it.

A Case Study in Workflows and Productivity: Chuck Grimmett

November 13, 2019Chuck Grimmett

Hannah Frankman took notes and did a great write-up of a live productivity workshop I did for the Praxis participants. Here it is.

At Makerpad.co: How Crash fortifies its engineering team with no code tools

October 23, 2019Chuck Grimmett

I wrote a story for Makerpad.co about how and why Crash uses no-code tools even though we have an engineering team who does custom work. Spoiler: It allows us to ship tests and new features faster!

Building a reading list with Jekyll data files

September 8, 2019Chuck Grimmett

How to build a reading list with Jekyll data files and why I chose a reading list over book notes.

What I’m Reading, Listening to, and Using – Spring 2019

June 12, 2019Chuck Grimmett

Books and articles I’m reading, podcasts I’m listening to, and new tools I’m using – Spring 2019

Adding Homebrew MySQL Service to your PATH

June 11, 2019Chuck Grimmett

Adding Homebrew MySQL Service to your PATH so you can use it on the command line

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I’m on the WordPress.com Special Projects Team at Automattic. I also blog about food and drink at Cook Like Chuck.

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