Category: Development
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Advent of Code, Day 1: Picking a Project
Read more…: Advent of Code, Day 1: Picking a ProjectI decided to do my own Advent of Code project this year: Plant Gantt
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How to download inline SVGs
Read more…: How to download inline SVGsDownloading inline SVGs is a pain. Here is how I do it.
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Building a reading list with Jekyll data files
Read more…: Building a reading list with Jekyll data filesHow to build a reading list with Jekyll data files and why I chose a reading list over book notes.
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Adding Homebrew MySQL Service to your PATH
Read more…: Adding Homebrew MySQL Service to your PATHAdding Homebrew MySQL Service to your PATH so you can use it on the command line
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Getting around foreign key constraints when restoring a Craft CMS database
Read more…: Getting around foreign key constraints when restoring a Craft CMS databaseAre you getting foreign key constraint errors when trying to restore Craft CMS database backups? Here is how to solve it.
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How to Upgrade from PHP 5.6 to 7.2 for WordPress
Read more…: How to Upgrade from PHP 5.6 to 7.2 for WordPressHere is the process I used to upgrade three large WordPress sites from PHP 5.6 to 7.2.
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Moving from Homestead to Valet for WordPress Development
Read more…: Moving from Homestead to Valet for WordPress DevelopmentHomestead is a pain, so I’m moving to Valet. No more VMs, Vagrant boxes, or mysterious error messages and failures (hopefully).
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Automated Accountability Check-ins
Read more…: Automated Accountability Check-insDuring 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…
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Rebuilding cagrimmett.com and Moving Old WordPress Posts to Jekyll
Read more…: Rebuilding cagrimmett.com and Moving Old WordPress Posts to JekyllEarlier this week I did a major revamp of cagrimmett.com. It started with redesigning my page templates to include a sidebar, then it morphed into making a long-standing goal of mine reality: Reviving the posts from my old 2008-2012 WordPress blog and getting them into Jekyll while preserving old links. Here’s how I did it.
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Simple Microblog WordPress Theme
Read more…: Simple Microblog WordPress ThemeWhen I learned about the Micro.blog project by Manton Reece, I decided that I wanted to host my own microblog, so I made a minimalist microblogging WordPress theme for that purpose.
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HTML and CSS Basics for WordPress
Read more…: HTML and CSS Basics for WordPressResources for WordPress users who want to use HTML and CSS to alter the structure, look, and feel of their themes, posts, and pages.
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My WordPress Stack
Read more…: My WordPress StackHere are the tools, hosts, themes, and plugins I use to build WordPress sites quickly and get the most out of them after they launch.
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Adding Full Width Front Page Widgets to Genesis Themes
Read more…: Adding Full Width Front Page Widgets to Genesis ThemesMost Genesis themes don’t allow content to go edge-to-edge out of the box. Here’s how to add a new full width widget area to your Genesis theme.
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Moving your Jekyll Site to Amazon S3 and Cloudfront with Outside DNS
Read more…: Moving your Jekyll Site to Amazon S3 and Cloudfront with Outside DNSAre you moving your Jekyll site from shared hosting over to S3 and Cloudfront while using your own DNS? Here is what you need to do.
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3 Lesser-Known Hubspot Tools
Read more…: 3 Lesser-Known Hubspot ToolsDo you use Hubspot? Here are three lesser-known Hubspot tools to help you get the most out of your marketing and sales workflows.
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Jekyll Tools
Read more…: Jekyll ToolsA 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.