I’ve been really bogged down on a couple personal development projects lately so yesterday I gave myself time to tackle a different problem. Namely, Nora Reed’s idea for randomized maximum post length on a Mastodon instance. Yes, I know it’s kind of funny to link to a Bluesky post talking about Mastodon. But I love […]
Over on FantasyHockeySim.com, specifically with the National Simulated Hockey League, we have the concept of a Supplemental Draft. This is a player draft that gives access to veteran players for teams who have historically not performed well. How do we define “not performed well” though? From the league rulebook: “Teams with a regular season winning […]
Determining a person’s age should be easy. The difference between the current date and their birthdate, right? Over at FantasyHockeySim.com, though, it’s become a touch more complicated than that. Among other places, player profiles over at FHS display a player’s age. In the summer of 2023, upon the death of Maple Leafs prospect Rodion Amirov, […]
Well, this is my third one of these Random SQL Reviews, so I guess we can call it a series, though I’m still not sure how regular they’ll be. Today I want to take a look at something new over at DetroitHockey.Net. I decided recently that I wanted to have a little more automatically-generated social […]
It’s been awhile since I’ve played around with the Trello API but my “To-Do” board was annoying me recently and I found something new to automate. As I’ve previously mentioned, I’ve got a webhook listening to my “To-Do” board. I’ve also mentioned that this board consists of “Not Started,” “In Progress,” and “Done” columns. In […]
I mentioned last month that I’d been sharing “interesting” SQL queries from my own code with a coworker as a way to spread some SQL knowledge that I think sometimes gets overlooked. I’m still not sure that I want to do a whole series of blog posts around that but I have another query that […]
I’ve always thought that, in the realm of “full-stack” development, SQL has the tendency to be left out. I’m hardly a DBA but I love SQL, so this is disheartening to me. As an example, a few weeks ago I was on a call with a bunch of my team. We were looking at a bit […]
Last fall I wrote about how I had changed the design of the “matchup images” at DetroitHockey.Net. This marked a new design after one season with the previous one. It turns out, the “new” design didn’t even make it a season. As I previously noted, last fall’s redesign was intended to inject more color onto […]
I mentioned over the summer that I’d thrown together a quick PHP wrapper class for interacting with the Bluesky API / AT protocol. And by quick, I mean quick. I wrote it one night, did a blog post on it in the early morning the next day, and called it good. Different issues with it […]
Over at DetroitHockey.Net, how I format my posts is constantly evolving. One of those changes is around the concept of a “matchup image.” Way back in 2005 I rebuilt the site in such a way that big headline stories were expected to include some kind of featured image. I took photos at every game I […]