#tools (36 notes)
- TIL: Viewing completed tasks in Todoist· Todoist has an experimental way to support done lists.
- Plausible solutions· Plausible solutions often aren't the good ones.
- TIL: You can add Microsoft Teams meetings to Google Calendar events· How to offer Teams meetings without leaving Google Calendar.
- You probably don't need to run Pi-hole or AdGuard Home· Subscribing to NextDNS for adblocking with no flaky devices.
- Writing software may be cheaper but owning it is still expensive· Not everything needs to be yours.
- Tea, Earl Grey, Meaty· Falling down a Codex rabbithole.
- Adding a post scaffold generator to an Astro blog· Way back when this blog was built with Hexo, I used the convenient Scaffolds feature as a way of bringing some consistency to blog posts.
- Codeship and curly bracket expansion· This isn't an issue with Codeship as such, but it can affect it.
- Continuous deployment of static sites from Codeship to WebFaction with rsync· Mmm, that's a a bit of a mouthful.
- From Ghost to Hexo· I've moved this blog from Ghost to Hexo.
- HMTL Using Codeship talk· Last week (last week!) I was going to give a quick talk about Codeship at HMTL. However, events conspired against me and I couldn't attend. And there…
- HMTL Vagrant talk· Last year (last year!) I gave a quick talk about Vagrant at HMTL. And then promptly forgot to put the accompanying presentation in a useful location. So,…
- Trying out Ghost· A couple of weeks ago I moved this blog from Tumblr to Ghost. I'd wanted to do so since Yahoo acquired Tumblr. I don't have any trust left in Yahoo after…
- Vagrant shell provisioning and usernames· I've been spending a lot of time with the excellent Vagrant recently but was getting mildly annoyed by starting in `/home/vagrant` when SSHing to a box,…
- A personal timeline of front-end web work· I've been thinking about how much the process of building websites has changed since I laid down my first crappy `frameset` nearly fifteen years ago, so…
- Donationware March 2013· I haven’t been keeping up with the donationware idea as well as I’d hoped. There’s a surprise. I’m blaming being stuck on one of those interminable…
- Issue tracking basics· Some basic issue tracking concepts and tips, aimed mainly at project and account managers who may not have much experience in this area.
- Chat tools: HipChat and Flowdock· Update 2015-08-21
- Donationware June 2012· The end of scoping and planning is nigh. Good-oh. We’ll be setting up tools over the next few weeks so I should be in a position to donate to…
- Security, passwords and whatnot· I’ve been slightly concerned about my rather lax security habits for a year or so. My state escalated from ‘slightly concerned’ to ‘mildly freaked out’…
- Donationware May 2012· Another month of writing documentation means another non-project-related bit of donationware.
- Donationware April 2012· This month has been all about writing reports, attending meetings and avoiding paper as much as possible, so my obvious donationware choice for this month…
- betterthan: Sublime Text· I’m extremely happy with Sublime Text 2. It’s filled the big editor-shaped hole left by the slow development of TextMate. Posts on customing Sublime Text…
- Donationware· I’ve been thinking a bit too much about paying for things.
- betterthan: You What?· I’ve found that attempting to use new tools and techniques during real production doesn’t really work for me. I get tied up in doing the work and find it…
- Whew! The link opened in a new window· Things Real People Don’t Say About Your App, via trpdsaya.
- 2010 Music· Here’s some music I enjoyed in 2010, with links to download or listen on Spotify as appropriate.
- Month 107· November was a quiet month and most of the things I did can’t be talked about publicly right now, so this monthnote should be mercifully brief.
- code_swarm - Flickr SVN· code_swarm - Flickr SVN, a visualization of flickr's SVN repository created using code_swarm.
- Apple Time Capsule· What’s an Apple Time Capsule? Does it send Granny Smiths into the future?
- Anyone Can Play EditPlus· Torrez reckons that even you can do it:
- Spoonbending· What is The Animatrix?
- Abandoned· Busy for a while. In the meantime, a new low in lazy weblogging: all the links I've never slept with (or, um, weblogged).
- Big Red Robot· While we’re on the subject of 70’s kiddie sci-fi, it should be noted that a full episode of the anime-style puppet show Star Fleet (aka X Bomber) is…
- Filthy electro-rap· Download Gold Chains’ new I Come From San Francisco video. I want that deck. Gold Chains, DMX Crew, Uncharted Audio’s honcho extraordinaire Kone-R and…
- Music is math· CNN article on music hardware vs. music software and related Slashdot discussion (ye olde “real” instruments vs. electronic instruments debate as well as…