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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Rebranding FantasyHockeySim.com

Rebranding FantasyHockeySim.com

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 […]

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On Journalism, Credit, and Perception

On Journalism, Credit, and Perception

I am not a journalist. At least that’s how I see it. I spent a lot of time over the last year – DetroitHockey.Net‘s 20th season – thinking about what kind of site I wanted to run and what I wanted to write.  I decided that I don’t want to force myself to be unbiased.  I […]

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Thoughts on Hockey Sweaters

Thoughts on Hockey Sweaters

I think about hockey sweaters a lot.  I’ve collected them since I was a kid.  I doodle jersey concepts for fun.  I study their history. Of the ones I owned growing up, my favorite was my Steve Yzerman Team Canada jersey from the 1998 Olympics.  White with the alternate captain’s A on it.  Pro-weight, with that […]

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Lessons Learned: Slack API

Lessons Learned: Slack API

I wrote last month about launching FantasyHockeySim.com and replacing the old DetroitHockey.Net Community Forums with a Slack team.  At the time I promised a future post about the work I did with the Slack API. The Slack API uses OAuth for authentication, which isn’t really a surprise.  It does open up problems if you want to […]

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