Tag: projects
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Reducing my personal hosting complexity
Have you ever put off a task because you felt like it would take you far too long so you just procrastinate and simply never get it done? I do this all the time. And, for the most part, when I do finally get around to getting the task completed I find out that my…
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Static first
In the early days of the modern web – say, the mid-1990s through the mid-00s – my personal website was served statically. It was built with plain HTML (CSS didn’t exist at the time) that I copied and pasted when I needed to create a new entry (the word blog didn’t exist then either). But…
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Stupid featured in Webcurios 24/06/22
Matt @ Webcurios, describing my game Stupid: Sent to me by Curios reader Colin Devroe, who also created it, this is a nice twist on the Wordle format (I promised I wouldn’t keep including Wordle riffs, but I will make exceptions for ones that are fun or which are accompanied by a polite email) which…
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Introducing the YouTube Channel RSS feed Bookmarklet
In 2020 Thomas Brand wrote a blog post about finding a YouTube’s channel RSS feed by appending the channel’s “Channel ID” onto a feed URL. Thomas Brand: In 2020 I am watching less stupid on YouTube by skipping the algorithm. Instead of letting the YouTube decide which videos it wants to show me, I am…
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Julia Evans on tiny personal programs
Julia Evans: So here are a few examples of small personal programming projects I’ve done. I’m not going to talk about “learning projects” where my goal was to learn something specific because I’ve already written a billion blog posts about that. I’ve written countless tidbits of code to solve personal problems. Some of them end…
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Top 3 reasons to transfer Stripe subscriptions from one account to another
After transferring tens of thousands of subscriptions in my side gig, StripeTransfer.com – which is a service that helps individuals and businesses transfer their Stripe subscriptions from one Stripe account to another – I’ve come across three main reasons this service is needed. While there have been other reasons I’ve been asked to migrate or…
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Introducing StripeTransfer.com
Over the last few years I’ve been able to help several companies transfer Stripe Subscriptions from one Stripe Account to another. Some of them were simply moving from one geography to another while others were acquisitions to or from the United States. Recently, the number of inquires I’ve had for this service from my hire…
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Introducing the Micro.blog Posting Bookmarklet
Recently there was a discussion on Micro.blog about having a bookmarklet that made it simple to post a link to a page you were viewing. And while there are solutions and workarounds, I didn’t see that there was a standard bookmarklet to do this. So now there is. The Micro.blog Posting Bookmarklet does two simple…
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Introducing HTML Family Tree
Today I’m introducing a new project on my Projects page; HTML Family Tree – A simple page to show and navigate a family tree. I spent a lot of time this winter scanning old slides from my grandparents. As I did so I began to see a lot of unfamiliar faces. Many of these unfamiliar…
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Mark Jardine on making simple things
Mark Jardine: I’ve noticed that when I successfully create something simple, I want to make more things as opposed to failing at something complicated. Since January I’ve been spending little bits of time here and there on my projects. Back then I stated it was to join in the fun of releasing small things, rather…
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A few quick notes about building Micro.blog themes
It took me just a few days to convert the Cypress WordPress theme for use on Micro.blog. Since the layout, design, and styling for most elements was already done – the main work was learning Micro.blog’s theming model and moving the code bits around. I thought it would be a good opportunity to jot down…
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Cypress is now available for free on Micro.blog
If you’re a member of Micro.blog you can now choose to use Cypress as your theme for free. Log in and click on your Design settings page, and choose the theme. That’s it. I’m happy that this came together. I thought it might be fun to make a Micro.blog theme and when I tossed the…
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Using Docker to build a WordPress theme
If you have no idea what Docker is or how it works, this blog post won’t help you too much. For that, I recommend Julia Evans’ Zine How Containers Work! I recently wanted to build a premium WordPress theme to offer here via my website. I started, finished, and released the theme in record time…
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Cypress – A premium portfolio theme for WordPress is now available
Cypress on WordPress Cypress is a simple way to create an online portfolio using the world’s leading website builder WordPress. Artists from all mediums; painters, photographers, designers, sculptures – all need a way to showcase their best work online. Cypress is an affordable way for artists to set up a website to control their brand,…
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I’m releasing some code projects
When I first started hacking away at a computer (sometime just after the first Jurassic Park film was released in theaters), and ultimately hacking away on the web, people would release small projects for others to use. Single-use scripts, small applications, design files for a specific niche, and proofs-of-concept that you could download and use…