Posted by Chuck Grimmett. Learn more on his About page.
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
TIL how to keep track of files and requests in Slack.
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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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Five Minute Journal TextExpander Snippets
A few days ago I listened to Tim Ferriss’s show on and learned about the . I made some TextExpander snippets for it.
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Single iPhone Home Screen
For the past two weeks I’ve been using a single iPhone home screen configuration .