Integrating Invision Power Board (back) into FantasyHockeySim.com
Notes on how the project integrating FantasyHockeySim.com with Invision Power Board went and how it was done.
Notes on how the project integrating FantasyHockeySim.com with Invision Power Board went and how it was done.
My latest fight with technology in the face of COVID: Setting up accounts for my daughter that don’t allow for parental controls that respect her blended family.
Thoughts on my recently-completed refactor of Fantasy Hockey Sim, which started out with a small feature request and spiraled out of control.
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 […]