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.
Feb 12
2018

Multi-Radius Syntax for Sketch

Not every shape with a radius should be the same on all sides. Thankfully Sketch has this functionality built right in. Since I can…
Jan 24
2018

WordPress Show All Posts on a Custom Post Type Archive Page

WordPress archive pages show a limited number of items, controlled from the Settings > Reading > Blog pages show at most section. The default…
Dec 22
2017

How to Migrate from Yoast SEO to The SEO Framework

I've used Yoast SEO (formerly WordPress SEO) for nearly as many years as I've been building WordPress websites. In the past few years Yoast…
Nov 3
2017

Special Character Reference

The following reference table is from the Webmonkey Special Character reference page, a link that I've kept for at least a decade (http://www.webmonkey.com/webmonkey/reference/special_characters/), (Note…
Oct 31
2017

Goodnight Firebug

So many web technologies have come and gone over the years, and when their time is up, most go quietly. Last week Mozilla announced…
Sep 28
2017

Transmit 5 Empty Directory When Using Transfer and Skip

10.31.17 Update: Good news! Update to Transmit 5.0.5 fixes this issue! I really like the new version of Transmit. It's super fast and easier…
Sep 22
2017

Drift Chat

We've used Drift chat on our sister site Cinch for over a year now. During that time we've been able to help countless people…
Aug 23
2017

Transmit 5 Missing Skip Feature Workaround

Transmit 5 was released back in mid July. I picked it up right away, not only for the initial launch discount, but because Transmit…
Jun 23
2017

Spigot JSON Feed

TLDR; Spigot has a new JSON feed for posts, and you can find it here: https://spigotdesign.com/feed/json. Our Portfolio feed is here: https://spigotdesign.com/feed/json/?post_type=portfolio I still…
Mar 13
2017

Adobe Illustrator Turns 30

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