The number of times I have “quit” the Grand Rapids Griffins’ annual jersey design contest is comical at this point. Last year I even publicly announced that I was done. Then they went and made this year’s edition 90s-themed and I was drawn right back in. Two years ago the Griffins requested an 80s-themed “fauxback” […]
Back in 2015, I wrote a bit about the history of the DetroitHockey.Net logo. Over the last several weeks, I was forced to add a new entry to that record. As I detailed at DH.N itself, the Detroit Tigers forced me to change the site’s logo, claiming that DetroitHockey.Net’s Old English D conflicted with their […]
I thought I’d retired from the Grand Rapids Griffins’ annual jersey design contest but, as this year’s edition rolled around, I realized that I wanted to revisit my 2016 entry and try to tweak a couple things that bothered me from it. In 2016, I didn’t like that the crest on my submission and the […]
Aside from the Grand Rapids Griffins, I don’t normally enter jersey design contests. In general, I don’t like “fan designed” jersey contests because rarely does an actual fan of the team win. I made an exception this year, though, for the Kalamazoo Wings. I can’t rightfully call myself a Kalamazoo fan given their rivalry with […]
I’ve been toying around with Slackbots a bit lately. Back in January I wrote about publishing a Git log to Slack via one. They’re dirt simple to implement and can be really useful. They can also be fun. I’ve added a couple bots in our office Slack just for posting randomness, running as cron jobs. […]
At my day job our codebase is kept in a handful of self-hosted Git repositories. We have a tool that runs nightly, emailing out a digest of all of the previous day’s commits. It’s kinda cool but I have the tendency to ignore it as a wall of text. I prefer more granular messaging and […]
I have a tendency to like to reinvent the wheel in my development, just to prove that I can. I’ve gotten better about it over the years. I replaced my custom-built blog engine with WordPress on DetroitHockey.Net, for example. I still roll my own classes for interacting with the Trello and Twitter APIs, though. Lately […]
Several years ago I embraced the sour grapes I had about losing the Grand Rapids Griffins’ jersey design contest and wrote about it. Since I’ve been ranting about it all day on Twitter, I figured it was time to do that again. I’ve repeatedly said that I put more thought than the Griffins intend into […]
As I’ve noted in the past, I have a love-hate relationship with the Grand Rapids Griffins’ annual jersey design contest. I have the tendency to put more thought than they probably intend into my own entries and, while I was a finalist last year, I don’t think I ever come close to winning. This year […]
I launched FantasyHockeySim.com as a spinoff of DetroitHockey.Net last summer and the visual elements of it were a rush job. Getting the site out the door was my priority, so I stole design elements for FHS from DH.N and put together a logo that didn’t say “fantasy hockey” at all. Awhile ago I ranted about […]