Griffins Jersey Contest – 90s Edition

Griffins Jersey Contest – 90s Edition

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” […]

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DetroitHockey.Net Logo Redesign 2019

DetroitHockey.Net Logo Redesign 2019

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 […]

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Kalamazoo Wings Jersey Concept 2018

Kalamazoo Wings Jersey Concept 2018

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 […]

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Posting to Slack via Git Hooks

Posting to Slack via Git Hooks

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 […]

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