Odds & Sods

Twenty years of everything else — experiments, detours, and posts that refused to fit a category. Every shop has a junk drawer. This one’s ours.
Aug 22
2019

Getting Apple Maps to Open on a Website Link

Google Maps is pretty good. It's been around for a long time and it gets you there most of the time. It's widely used…
Jan 9
2019

Turn Off Photoshop’s New Default Proportional Transform

Update: Photoshop 2020 now has a setting to use the 'legacy' transform behavior. Go to Preferences > General and tick the 'Use Legacy Free…
Sep 27
2018

Solved: Typinator Not Working in MacOS Mojave

I've been using Typinator for years now to expand content with a few keystrokes. Filling out a form is easy when I can type…
Jun 7
2018

Solved: Local by Flywheel Stuck on Provisioning (Installing WordPress)

I've had a long history of wrestling with local development environments. While I haven't written much (none) about it, for the last year plus…
May 10
2018

Bear Notes Mac Keyboard Shortcuts

Here's a quick list of Mac keyboard shortcuts for Bear Notes App Editor Text Styles ⌥⌘1 , ⌥⌘2, … ⌥⌘6 - Headings ⌥⌘S -…
Apr 7
2018

All My Instagrams Are MINE

There was a time in the early days of social media that I signed up for every service that came out. The username @spigot…
Apr 5
2018

Didn’t Quite Make It But Still Committed

When I set out to write a blog post per day in the month of March I was fully committed. The goal was two-fold:…
Mar 3
2018

Disable Autocorrect in Mac OS

There are a ton of funny autocorrect stories out there and probably more than one website dedicated to the hilarity. We've all been frustrated…
Feb 28
2018

For the Open Web and Independent Publishing: A Month of Blogging

A post from John Gruber came across my RSS feed today about an online publisher shutting down because of Facebook's new algorithm. Gruber links…
Feb 15
2018

Yelp is Not a Good Marketing Tool for Your Business

For years Yelp salespeople have called periodically to get Spigot on board with advertising through their platform. These people have all been brushed aside.…