Codekit 2.0, WordPress, and MAMP

By Bryan Hoffman | March 25, 2014 |

I upgraded to Codekit 2.0 a few days ago and so far it’s great. I thought the browser refresh feature was broken but it turns out I was just doing it wrong. If you’ve used Codekit 1.x you’ll know that it refreshed what ever browser you had open and in front at the time. The…

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Tesla, and Why Buying A Car Is So Awful

By Bryan Hoffman | March 19, 2014 |

With the recent news about New Jersey kicking Tesla out of their state, here’s an apt rebroadcast of a Planet Money podcast: Why Buying a Car is so Awful: I didn’t realize the auto dealership industry was so well protected. It would be great to see this changed, but I wonder how Tesla customers feel…

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Hide title attribute on hover, but don’t remove

By Bryan Hoffman | March 17, 2014 |

A client of ours uses PrettyPhoto to show galleries of artwork and they recently requested that we change up the way in which the artwork meta information were displayed. This required that the data be moved to the title attribute of the link, which worked surprisingly well. It unfortunately also added an illegible, undesirable, and…

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Dropbox: Moving a shared folder

By Bryan Hoffman | March 10, 2014 |

I recently reorganized our Dropbox file structure and ran into an issue with shared folders no longer being shared. That prompted me to Google: Can I rename or move a shared folder? From Dropbox: You can rename or move your shared folders just like you would any other folder on your hard drive or via…

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@font-face not rendering in Chrome

By Bryan Hoffman | March 7, 2014 |

Since launching the latest version of Spigot last week there has been an intermittent issue with our @font-face fonts not rendering (We serve web fonts from our servers). I initially shrugged it off as it happened so intermittently, but after a couple of others mentioned the issue it was time to get serious about it.…

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The basics of maintaining a website

By Bryan Hoffman | March 5, 2014 |

Owning a website comes with certain responsibilities. You can’t just build it and forget it. Well you can, but regular website maintenance is a must if you want your site to be successful. Regular maintenance can: Keep your site secure. Websites get hacked, and hacked sites lose visitors and traffic. Prevent you from losing everything…

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Real Salt Lake

By Bryan Hoffman | November 8, 2013 |

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pa1DJ008t9Y] We took the kids to see Real Salt Lake defeat LA Galaxy at Rio Tinto last night. It was an exciting match and the energy in the place was electric. This is the RSL Battle Hymn.

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What’s your Style?

By Bryan Hoffman | November 5, 2013 |

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhjYZp6DENE&w=650] Even though I’m not a fan of the mustache, I can certainly support what movember.com stands for. And awesomely illustrated videos.

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