Blog
Thoughts on development, tools, and the web.
May 10, 2019
Plan For YOUR Users
Today the CommitStrip featured this comic about losing touch with your users. It’s really great:
May 8, 2019
Relaunching dotdev
A few years ago, 2016 according to my projects page, I launched a site named dotdev.
May 6, 2019
Sleep, Glorious Sleep
For the past month, I’ve started going to bed and waking up at set times, and it’s been amazing.
May 5, 2019
Triggered
It seems I have the gift of triggering people on social media so what better way than to make an illustration.
May 4, 2019
iOS Do Not Disturb While Driving
Since iOS 11 Apple introduced a featured called “do not disturb while driving” where it tries to detect when you are driving and prevent notifications.
May 3, 2019
Bullet Journaling
Todo lists are my kryptonite. I’ve used them all and I’m never satisfied.
May 1, 2019
Vintage Instagram
For a long time, I’ve wanted one of these for my office wall.
April 30, 2019
Blowing Rock
Yesterday was my 40th birthday so I took the day off work, let the kids skip school, and we headed up to the mountains of NC to visit Grandfather Mountain...
April 27, 2019
Pedialyte - A Marketing Success Story
A few weeks ago I went on a vacation to the city that is in the middle of the desert, Las Vegas.
April 26, 2019
Closed Captioning
Kottke has a new post outlining why everyone is watching TV with closed captioning turned on and it made me think of my own habits and how I’ve started usi...
April 23, 2019
PHP: Underscores for Private
Jeffrey Way released a new Laracasts Snippet, and in it, he mentioned a tweet from me:
April 22, 2019
Not on Facebook?
A few years ago I remember I’d be in a conversation with my parents and they would ask me about some person.
April 18, 2019
A Decade Ago
I just had this image from ten years ago pop up in my “on this day” feed and it’s crazy thinking back over the last ten years.
April 17, 2019
TablePlus Workflow for Alfred
It seems many developers are making the switch to TablePlus because it supports a wide range of different database types, has an active development team, a...
April 13, 2019
Stripe Checkout
Normally when I sell advertising spots on Laravel News it’s a one off purchase so I’ve been using Quickbooks Invoices for it.
April 9, 2019
Find Your Top 10 Shell Commands
Ever wonder what shell commands you use most often? Copy and paste the following into your CLI and see your top 10.
April 7, 2019
Keep Going — Austin Kleon
Austin Kleon has a new book out named Keep Going which gives you 10 ways to stay creative in good and bad and for me it was a fun read.
April 6, 2019
🔥 Code Tips Sketch Template
People love to share coding tips on social media and I’ve seen some take screenshots of their editor and share it, or others might use a dedicated service...
April 4, 2019
Macbook Touch Bar
I recently got a new MacBook Pro, and this is my first time with the Touch Bar style of keyboard.
March 19, 2019
Awesome Uses
Wes Bos recently launched a new Github repo called Awesome Uses that let’s everyone list their personal “uses” pages and I’ve added mine.