Design & Development Blog

Notes from the shop — process, tools, and the occasional opinion.
Nov 1
2016

Drift Fluid App Icons & Setup

I love using Fluid to run websites as an app, especially websites I need to keep open and active. Like Drift, our on-site chat…
Oct 17
2016

Site Stats Restored to the Jetpack Submenu

Jetpack released a new React powered interface in version 4.3, released on September 8th of this year. They worked very hard on it for…
Oct 13
2016

From MAMP to Vagrant and Back Again

One of the most rewarding things about web development is that it's always changing. New code specifications, design trends, device capabilities, programming languages, API…
Oct 10
2016

Tweetbot Filter Search Bug

I've been using Tweetbot for a few years now and it's still my go to Twitter app on the Mac as well as iOS.…
Oct 7
2016

Get the Featured Image of a Parent Page in WordPress

When you're building a number of pages in WordPress that are closely tied to a main, or parent page, tying them together with imagery…
Jun 1
2016

Get the Title of the Parent Page; If No Parent, Show this Page’s Title

This snippet is from a book project - the book title needed to be shown on all subsequent chapters, unless it was the main…
Apr 28
2016

Screen Size Indicator Returns in Chrome 50

Chrome 49 removed a minor feature that I used quite a bit - the screen size indicator that would appear when resizing the window…
Feb 13
2016

WordPress Development with Gulp

Here's how we develop WordPress websites using Sass and Gulp. At least for this week. We use it to compile Sass, concatenate and minify…
Oct 6
2015

New Asana Logo for Fluid App

Asana pushed a redesigned branding last week, updating their logo, website and web app. They nailed it in my opinion. It's clean and fresh and…
Sep 29
2015

OS X El Capitan: The Ars Technica Review

When ever a new version of OS X is released, Ars Technica puts out as thorough a review as anyone. This release is no…