This blog started on WordPress in 2008 and moved to Jekyll in 2015. Now it is back on WordPress. Here is how I did the migration.
Category Development
Advent of Code, Day 12: Ember Simple Auth
Tried adding authentication with Ember Simple Auth and got stuck.
Advent of Code, Day 11: Rendering Charts from Ember Data
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
Today I set up Firebase and saved and retrieved plant and garden data from it.
Advent of Code, Day 9: More Ember Data
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
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
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
Today I handled the plant addition flow more gracefully.
Advent of Code, Day 5: Form Components
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
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
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
Today in Plant Gantt I figured out the basics of implementing the D3 gantt-style chart.
Advent of Code, Day 1: Picking a Project
I decided to do my own Advent of Code project this year: Plant Gantt
How to download inline SVGs
Downloading inline SVGs is a pain. Here is how I do it.
Building a reading list with Jekyll data files
How to build a reading list with Jekyll data files and why I chose a reading list over book notes.
Adding Homebrew MySQL Service to your PATH
Adding Homebrew MySQL Service to your PATH so you can use it on the command line
Getting around foreign key constraints when restoring a Craft CMS database
Are you getting foreign key constraint errors when trying to restore Craft CMS database backups? Here is how to solve it.
How to Upgrade from PHP 5.6 to 7.2 for WordPress
Here is the process I used to upgrade three large WordPress sites from PHP 5.6 to 7.2.
Moving from Homestead to Valet for WordPress Development
Homestead is a pain, so I’m moving to Valet. No more VMs, Vagrant boxes, or mysterious error messages and failures (hopefully).
Automated Accountability Check-ins
During the Praxis bootcamp, participants are expected to make every single day a non-zero day. Most participants ask us to hold them accountable, so they email one of our staff each day and that person emails them the next day if they miss a check-in. This takes an enormous number of emails, staff overhead to keep track of, and is difficult to search. Here is my solution to that problem.