Category Archives: Miscellaneous Debris

One thing that bugs me about switching main monitors in MacOS is that there’s no shortcut to do it. You have to go into settings and drag that little bar to the display that you want to be main. I’ve got a setup where my iMac is on a standing desk and my second monitor […]

One of our favorite holiday traditions is to go through all of the holiday episodes of our favorite shows during the month of December. Every year, I end up looking up which episodes we need to watch for each show, so this year I thought it’d be smart to just make a note for myself […]

I’m going to document how I handle a project at work with many, many (150+) multisites using Drupal 8 and configuration management. When thinking of what to write for this post, I pretended that this is the blog post I wish I read at the beginning of the migration process from Drupal 7 to Drupal […]

I’m trying to make my tooling work as well as it can for me. This post is me documenting my configuration for working with PhpStorm on a Emulsify Drupal project. Your *.stories.js will be annoyingly underlined red unless you set the JavaScript language version to ECMAScript 6. Set the webpack configuration file to the webpack.dev.js […]

Googling around, I found an awesome little script that allows you to transform python’s SimpleHTTPServer into a CORS enabled server. I copied the above gist into a folder, then within that made a “data” folder where I put CSVs and JSON files for local projects I’m working on. My CORS server file structure. Now, when […]

It’s no secret that I love automation and making my job more efficient. Netlify has been a game changer for deploying web apps and static sites. However, Netlify isn’t an ideal solution for deploying static sites to sub-directories because by default it deploys to the root of a domain. Maybe it’s possible to change this […]

Ever since I tried Netlify, I have less patience for FTPing files to a server. I’m trying to automate as much of my work as possible to take out the possibility of human error and save time. Here are a few resources I’ve found that have helped me out immensely. Netlify – This is the […]

I’m currently developing a component for a project that has a video background with some moving type on top of it. It looks great except when it gets down to mobile. I’ve also encountered this problem when trying to make video heros; they look great on large screens but if you keep the video ratio […]

2019 was a fairly uneventful year for me in terms of professional accomplishments, but nonetheless it was excellent in terms of challenging some old beliefs and reevaluating the way I am in the world. Web development My web development energy was mostly consumed by two things: Drupal 8 and JavaScript (specifically Vue). Vue To continue […]

Often times I’ve seen articles talking about the benefits of components to developers, but less often I see articles talking about the benefits of components to site builders and editors. Component-based theming and site building is where the web is going. WordPress is there with Gutenberg’s block system. Drupal uses Paragraphs, Layout Builder, and probably […]