Tagged “web-development”

• Homebrew and Apple Silicon Macs

  Published Apr 05, 2023

• Syncing Letterboxd Data to Markdown Files

  Owning my Letterboxd data.

  Published Mar 22, 2023

• Redirecting a Wordpress.com blog to Netlify

  DNS and redirects for a blog migration.

  Published May 10, 2022

• Eleventy: Building an Image Gallery with CSS Grid and PhotoSwipe

  Trying out CSS Grid’s new Masonry Layout, with a PhotoSwipe lightbox

  Published Jan 22, 2021

• Adobe’s Matt May on Flash and Accessibility

  Matt May looks back at Flash and its accessibility problems.

  Published Jan 06, 2021

• Eleventy: Netlify Redirects

  Two different flavors of Netlify redirects, in an Eleventy context.

  Published Dec 07, 2020

• Eleventy: The log Universal Filter

  After writing my own filter it turns out Eleventy already has one.

  Published Dec 05, 2020

• Dave Rupert: “Technical debt as a lack of understanding”

  Metaphors for technical complexity and refactoring.

  Published Nov 13, 2020

• Book Grid Iterations

  Fine-tuning the grid in my Reading log.

  Published Sep 21, 2020

• A New Home

  Notes on this website release.

  Published Sep 15, 2020

• Eleventy: Escaping Nunjucks Statements in Markdown Code Blocks

  Making code blocks with Nunjucks statements safe for Nunjucks template rendering.

  Published Sep 08, 2020

• Eleventy: RSS Feeds and Front Matter Data

  Getting front matter data into my Nunjucks RSS feed templates.

  Published Sep 04, 2020

• Eleventy: Tag List Sorting and Post Count

  Getting front matter data into my Nunjucks RSS feed templates.

  Published Aug 17, 2020

• Eleventy: Images Responsiver Markup

  Tweaking Images Responsiver for figure element markup.

  Published Jul 21, 2020

• Eleventy: Images Responsiver

  Refining my responsive images approach with Nicolas Hoizey’s Images Responsiver plugin.

  Published Jun 29, 2020

• Eleventy: Debugging

  I belatedly figure out how to get debug output in Eleventy.

  Published Jun 17, 2020

• Eleventy: Paired Shortcodes and Markdown Rendering

  Implementing figure markup with a Paired Shortcode, plus adventures in Markdown rendering.

  Published Jun 16, 2020

• Eleventy: Markdown and Footnotes

  Adding footnote support to markdown-it in Eleventy.

  Published Jun 15, 2020

• Eleventy: Date Output

  Dates, Data files, and Custom Filters in Eleventy.

  Published Jun 05, 2020

• Eleventy: Custom Content Type and Collection for Books

  Building a custom content type, collection, and templates for logging my reading.

  Published May 27, 2020

• Visualizing my Reading with Semiotic

  Notes from my experiments with the Semiotic dataviz library.

  Published Apr 17, 2020

• Netlify Large Media and Eleventy

  Some links that helped me figure out image derivatives with Eleventy and Netlify.

  Published Jan 27, 2020

• Ternary Operators in Template Literals

  Folding myself into nested template literals, and then unfurling again.

  Published Nov 19, 2019

• Terseness tension

  Christian Heilmann points out some drawbacks to optimizing for terseness.

  Published Oct 04, 2019

• Don’t Forget to Validate Your HTML Markup

  Validate to save a life.

  Published Sep 05, 2019

• Robin Rendle on Blogging with Eleventy

  Robin Rendle writes about his journey from WordPress to Jekyll to Eleventy.

  Published Jun 05, 2019

• Publish/Unpublish Permissions in Drupal 8

  Override Node Options module for Drupal 8.

  Published Jun 04, 2019

• Forcing a Field Group Sync with Advanced Custom Fields

  Kicking WordPress ACF fields in the pants to force a sync.

  Published Apr 30, 2019

• Offline Development with Lando

  Configuring Lando for offline work.

  Published Apr 26, 2019

• Docker and OS X El Capitan

  Playing Whac-a-Mole with Docker, lando, and my aging Macbook.

  Published Feb 25, 2019

• GraphQL Queries in Postman and Browsers

  Getting GraphQL queries into other tools.

  Published Oct 18, 2018

• Composer and Homebrew

  A quirky Homebrew/PHP/Composer error.

  Published Oct 15, 2018

• GraphQL: Adding Fields to Types in Drupal 8

  Diving into custom GraphQL fields for Drupal 8.

  Published Sep 12, 2018

• GraphQL, Aliases, and Multiple Image Derivatives

  An exploration of GraphQL aliases for image derivative queries in Drupal 8.

  Published Aug 13, 2018

• Pantheon Backups with Terminus

  Granular Pantheon backups using the Terminus CLI.

  Published Jun 18, 2018

• PHP 7.x on MacOS via Homebrew

  Using homebrew to update PHP to version 7.1

  Published Jun 11, 2018

• Drush 9 and Pantheon Terminus

  Resolving a strange drush/terminus conflict on Pantheon.

  Published Jun 05, 2018

• VS Code Settings Sync Extension

  A useful extension for keeping multiple VS Code workspaces in sync.

  Published Jun 04, 2018

• Jorge Arango on Design Artifacts

  Jorge Arango on choosing appropriate design artifacts.

  Published Dec 06, 2017

• WHYY

  Notes from Bluecadet’s recent redesign for WHYY.

  Published Nov 30, 2017

• Screenshots with Chrome Dev Tools

  Taking full-page screenshots with Chrome’s Dev Tools

  Published Nov 27, 2017

• Lando (Docker + Drupal/WordPress)

  Trying out Kalabox successor Lando.

  Published Oct 23, 2017

• PHP for Me

  PHP basics for my brain.

  Published Oct 16, 2017

• Cloning a Pantheon Multidev Environment

  A two-step dance to duplicate a Pantheon multidev environment.

  Published Jun 26, 2017

• Drupal 7 Menus and the Node Symlinks Module

  Using the Node Symlinks module in Drupal 7 to sort out menu priority.

  Published Jun 23, 2017

• Fixing VS Code’s Command-Line Utility

  Remapping VS Code’s command line utility

  Published May 24, 2017

• Drupalcon 2017: Pattern Language

  Notes on my recent Drupalcon 2017 talk, “Pattern Language: Pattern Libraries in the Wild”

  Published May 03, 2017

• RIP TextWrangler

  A classic text editor hits EOL.

  Published Mar 02, 2017

• VS Code Key Bindings

  Link to gist of my VS Code key bindings, with a quick note on the perceived “weight” of VS Code vs TextMate.

  Published Feb 21, 2017

• Kalabox, VS Code, and XDebug

  My adventures in debugging Kalabox apps within VS Code.

  Published Jan 12, 2017

• Trying out VS Code

  Setting fonts and Terminal app in VS Code.

  Published Nov 30, 2016

• Drupal 7 Paragraph Bundle Template Suggestions

  Enabling theme debugging in Drupal 7.

  Published Nov 28, 2016

• Trying out Atom

  The first of my ongoing notes on trying the Atom text editor.

  Published Nov 01, 2016

• Link Widget in Drupal 7 Custom Forms

  How to render an input field for a link in a Drupal 7 custom form.

  Published Oct 13, 2016

• Getting Timezone-adjusted Dates using Entity Metadata Wrapper

  Basically, don’t try and sidestep Entity Metadata Wrapper in the final mile.

  Published May 19, 2016

• Getting the First Result from EntityFieldQuery

  How to grab the first result of an Entity Field Query.

  Published May 16, 2016

• Git core.filemode and unstaged changes

  Letting git ignore permissions weirdness in your repo.

  Published Mar 01, 2016

• Partial Date Fields in Drupal

  Using the Partial Date module to allow for optional month/day in a Drupal Date field.

  Published Feb 24, 2016

• Setting a destination directory for drush features-export

  Creating Drupal 7 Features exports using drush, plus how to specify the directory for the feature.

  Published Feb 18, 2016

• SSH Keys and Permissions

  When configuring SSH keys on a remote server, check those permissions!

  Published Jan 20, 2016

• Responsive Web Design: Patterns & Principles

  My thoughts on Ethan Marcotte’s new book.

  Published Jan 06, 2016

• Decoupled Development with WordPress JSON APIs

  A collection of resources for my talk at WordCamp US 2015, “Decoupled Development with WordPress JSON APIs”

  Published Dec 05, 2015

• Science Friday

  Launch notes for Science Friday’s new website.

  Published Oct 21, 2015

• A List Apart Event: Designing for Performance

  Notes on ALA’s performance panel.

  Published Mar 10, 2015

• Dev Discomfort

  Published Jan 22, 2015

• On Web Typography

  Some notes on Jason Santa Maria’s book.

  Published Nov 12, 2014

• Progressively Enhancing Progressive Enhancement

  Taking a second pass at a Lapham’s Quarterly feature.

  Published Nov 10, 2014

• Lapham’s Quarterly

  Developer notes for the Lapham’s Quarterly website.

  Published Oct 20, 2014

• OS X Mavericks and Apache/MySQL

  Published Jul 16, 2014

• Using Adobe Edge Inspect with Local Virtual Hosts

  Published Jun 19, 2014

• “Prototyping Your Workflow” Links

  Published Jun 06, 2014

• “This is the Job”

  Some programming wisdom from Lester Freamon of The Wire.

  Published Jun 03, 2014

• Disabling PHP 5.5.3 OPcache in MAMP

  Published Jan 18, 2014

• Deleting Ignored Files Mistakenly Committed to a Git Repo

  How to rewrite commits to remove files from Git’s history by using filter-branch.

  Published Oct 28, 2013

• Clearing Out Drupal Features Checkboxes

  Published Aug 21, 2013

• Why Would You Do That on Mobile?

  Published Aug 07, 2013

• Tyler School of Art

  Published Jun 03, 2013

• Disable All Drupal Modules with Drush

  Published May 15, 2013

• When Drupal Says Your New Field Name Already Has a Table

  Published Jan 18, 2013

• We Didn’t Even Bother with a Funeral

  Published Aug 22, 2012

• Sublime Text 2: Remapping Key Bindings

  Published Aug 15, 2012

• Sublime Text 2: Disabling Auto-Reload of Windows

  Published Jul 23, 2012

• Debugging is All About Baselines

  Published Apr 20, 2012

• Clearing out Drupal Modules

  Published Mar 29, 2012

• Drupal’s Ctools Object Cache

  Published Dec 01, 2011

• Changing the Default Avatar in WordPress

  Published Sep 02, 2011

• Styling the WordPress 3 Comment Form

  Published Aug 26, 2011

• Responsive Web Design by Ethan Marcotte

  My notes on Ethan Marcotte’s new book.

  Published Jun 08, 2011