My wife and I decided to start a new business last fall, a jigsaw puzzle company. It was something way outside either of our respective wheelhouses but we slowly moved forward, learning along the way, and after months of planning we have our first series of puzzles available for sale. The one thing that wasn’t […]
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 […]
I’ve always been a big fan of software developers having side projects. I think it’s important, as a dev, to diversify the types of problems you’re learning to solve. That said, I think there are plenty of good reasons not to work in code for your day job and then keep doing so on nights […]
Note: The following code examples were accurate as of when this was written, specifically for v1 of my BlueskyApi class. Version-accurate code samples can be found in the README file for the class. Much like last fall’s version of the Twitterpocalypse saw people running to Mastodon (and, seemingly, quickly running back to Twitter) as a […]
Last month, a new basketball league called the Basketball Superleague was announced. I consider myself pretty plugged-in to such things, if for no other reason than my interest in sports branding, but basketball really isn’t my sport and there are dozens of regional low-level basketball leagues that come and go, so this normally wouldn’t have […]
I’ve got a webhook for my main Trello board that’s so simple that I don’t really even think of it anymore. Today, though, I was working in the board my wife and I use for our household stuff and it annoyed me that it wasn’t there, so I set it up and figured it was […]
Earlier this year I wrote a bit about setting up a Mastodon server. I stuck to the technical side in that post but, in addition to that, there was the branding of the server (and a second server that spun off of it) so I figured I’d write that up here. Shocking no one, I’m […]
Many years ago now, I wrote about the challenge of re-branding one of my fantasy hockey teams in a league where team identities were treated very seriously. In the years since then, that particular league has itself rebranded (going from the NHA – National Hockey Association – to the NSHL – National Simulated Hockey League) […]