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Nobody. Is that a bold statement? Yep. Know anybody better? Leave me a note in the comments…

Google Maps is pretty good. It's been around for a long time and it gets you there…

The latest version of Photoshop (CC 2019) changed how layers are transformed in a proportional manner. The…

Between Spigot and Cinch (our WordPress Support company), we've built and support quite a few e-commerce websites. Some…

I've been using Typinator for years now to expand content with a few keystrokes. Filling out a…

I've had a long history of wrestling with local development environments. While I haven't written much (none)…

Here's a quick list of Mac keyboard shortcuts for Bear Notes App Editor Text Styles ⌥⌘1 ,…

There was a time in the early days of social media that I signed up for every…

When I set out to write a blog post per day in the month of March I…

There are a ton of funny autocorrect stories out there and probably more than one website dedicated…

A post from John Gruber came across my RSS feed today about an online publisher shutting down…

If you are looking to have a website built I have good news for you: You don't…

For years Yelp salespeople have called periodically to get Spigot on board with advertising through their platform.…

Not every shape with a radius should be the same on all sides. Thankfully Sketch has this…

When we migrated to Park City in 2007, we brought with us a fairly non-existent little design…

WordPress archive pages show a limited number of items, controlled from the Settings > Reading > Blog…

I've used Yoast SEO (formerly WordPress SEO) for nearly as many years as I've been building WordPress…

The following reference table is from the Webmonkey Special Character reference page, a link that I've kept…

So many web technologies have come and gone over the years, and when their time is up,…

10.31.17 Update: Good news! Update to Transmit 5.0.5 fixes this issue! I really like the new version…

We've used Drift chat on our sister site Cinch for over a year now. During that time…

Transmit 5 was released back in mid July. I picked it up right away, not only for…

TLDR; Spigot has a new JSON feed for posts, and you can find it here: https://spigotdesign.com/feed/json. Our…

Like many of my peers, I've had a love/hate relationship with Adobe in recent years. Yes their…

When you delete an email in Postbox, by default the next message is selected. That means it…

We've recently started using Apple Pages over InDesign for client proposals and contracts. It's part of a…

We love Asana here at Spigot, if it wasn't obvious enough. When we work with clients that…

I love using Fluid to run websites as an app, especially websites I need to keep open…

Jetpack released a new React powered interface in version 4.3, released on September 8th of this year.…

One of the most rewarding things about web development is that it's always changing. New code specifications,…

I've been using Tweetbot for a few years now and it's still my go to Twitter app…

When you're building a number of pages in WordPress that are closely tied to a main, or…

This snippet is from a book project - the book title needed to be shown on all…

Chrome 49 removed a minor feature that I used quite a bit - the screen size indicator…

Here's how we develop WordPress websites using Sass and Gulp. At least for this week. We use…

Asana pushed a redesigned branding last week, updating their logo, website and web app. They nailed it in…

When ever a new version of OS X is released, Ars Technica puts out as thorough a…

WooCommerce comes with a default set of credit card icons that look like this: If you like…

We've been running Cinch Hosting for nearly a decade now. We've also been quietly running a web…

Since I've been somewhat opinionated in the past regarding email etiquette, a recent post by Anand Sanwal…