Git core.filemode and unstaged changes
Letting git ignore permissions weirdness in your repo.
Phantom Phidget
Removing a stubborn web service left behind from developing with Phidgets controllers.
SSH Keys and Permissions
When configuring SSH keys on a remote server, check those permissions!
WordPress Calypso and Markdown
A test post using the new WordPress desktop application, Calypso.
Dev Discomfort
Frank Chimero recently wrote a post, “Two Sentences About Getting Older and Working on the Web”, which is short enough that I’ll just quote it here in full: It is time to come clean: Github is confusing, Git is confusinger, pretty much everything in a modern web stack no longer makes sense to me, and […]
Progressively Enhancing Progressive Enhancement
Last Friday I made a joke on Twitter about progressively enhancing the progressive enhancement on a site—turtles all the way down, ha ha. But in some ways I was being quite serious. One of the beautiful things about working on the web is that a site is never truly done, sometimes for worse but usually […]
Using Adobe Edge Inspect with Local Virtual Hosts
At Bluecadet we like to review responsive prototypes and site builds using real devices. One of the tools we use is Adobe Edge Inspect, and it’s always worked well for previewing sites on public URLs. We happen to do a lot of development on our local machines, however, and we’ve never been able to load […]
This is the Job
Whenever I’m refactoring code I’m reminded of Lester Freamon on The Wire. You might be familiar with the quote: “This, right here? This is the job”. (Wilson Miner wrote a nice thought along similar lines on The Pastry Box last year. You should read that, because he sets it up much better than I can. […]