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Restore those cool hidden macOS calendars

Years ago I wrote about interesting hidden calendars in macOS. I hadn’t tested this in a long while, until I happened to think of it the other day. In that time Apple had removed the calendars, … Read more

I gave a whimsical talk introducing #git at Florida #Drupal Camp, and published it as a blog post. I’m very proud of it. Open to any feedback!

Grokking Git: A Fantasy Story

This post was originally done as a presentation at Florida Drupal Camp. You can watch the video on YouTube. Git is a big part of a lot of tech worker’s every day lives, but it can be confusing to use. … Read more

Grokking Git: A Fantasy Story

Git is a big part of a lot of tech worker’s every day lives, but it can be confusing to use. There’s good news and bad news. The bad news is, Git is complex; there’s a lot of confusing commands. The … Read more

I’m on the Lullabot Podcast talking about Single Directory Components! #Drupal #SDC

Jason Koebler nailing the sentiment in OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole From Us

I will explain what this means in a moment, but first: Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahaha.

My CLI wrapped most used commands.

  1. 3732 git
  2. 1471 ls
  3. 1289 rg
  4. 856 ddev
  5. 745 nvim
  6. 546 mv
  7. 534 cd
  8. 510 rm
  9. 477 yarn
  10. 453 cat

Generated with history | awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq --count | sort --numeric-sort --reverse | head -10.

After exhaustive research and countless hours over nights and weekends, I’ve compiled the authoritative demographic info on the audience for each vi derivative.

  1. Neovim: devs wanting a hackable IDE
  2. Vim: sysadmins who work primarily over remote terminals
  3. Vi: FreeBSD devs
  4. Ed: The criminally insane

I’m very excited that I’ll be giving my first session at Flordia DrupalCamp 2025: Grokking Git. Hope to see you there! #drupal #git #lullabot

Debra Lawal has an excellent essay on gender bias in hard work vs natural talent.

As a dude and a senior software developer, let me say unequivocally that I have no natural talent. Like, zero. Any skill I have is through effort, and I’m not unique in that way.

bronzehedwick's 2024 | ~ GitHub Wrapped Private Access: False. Contribution Calendar. Contribution Calendar. 815 Contributions. 174. Active Days. 35 Contributions. 10 13 5%, on 10/31/2024. Longest Streak Longest Gap Weekend Activity Busiest Day. Lines of Code (LOC) Analysis. Most Used Languages Most Active Repositories. By LOC Changed By LOC Changed. +3,000 -700. LOC Additions LOC Deletions. ~500 lines. ~900 lines. myimmond. comles. 2.1k lines. CSS. 18/4 10. Typical Commit Lines Changed / Day. Contribution Breakdown. Contributions by Type Contributions by Month. Log Scale By Contribution Count. Commis. 160-. 140-. 120-. Reviews. Contribution: 60-. 40-. 20-. Dec. Pull Requests. ١-٠- -000-. Contributions by Day Contributions by Time. By Contribution Count 176 Sampled Contributions, Eastern Time. 12:004M-. 180-. 06:00 AM-. 09:00 AM-. 10x01. Contributions. 160-. 03:00 PM-. 06:00 PM-. 0-. Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday wadnient. Day. Create your own at www.githubwrapped.io

Fun little wrapped project for Github.

Had a lovely time at NEDCamp as always. Thanks to all the organizers and speakers for such a great con.

TIL that there is a tac command that is like cat, but prints the lines in reverse. Maybe I’m uncreative, but…why?

Had a great time at #smashingconf. Thanks to all the speakers and organizers and staff. Everyone was very kind and approachable and I learned a lot.

TIL the word “Tesselate”, which is a repeating pattern, like a honeycomb. ⬣

TIL background-blend-mode and a background-image is the only way to do a mix blend mode on an image. You can’t do that with an absolutely-positioned <img> tag.

From @andy_blum.

My smart talented colleague Laura Donalan is co-leading Untangling Your Drupal Migration: Lessons from the State of Iowa. If you’re considering any CMS data migration, it’s well worth a look.

Today I learned the term Data Piggy.

A tech sector Venture Capitalist who stuffs their little piggy faces on people’s private information until their little piggie overall buttons pop off their engorged little piggy bodies.

Seems incredibly useful. 👍

Gripping read about one of the first women hackers, by Claire Evans for The Verge. I read this years ago, and only now getting around to sharing it.

In the ’80s, Susan Headley ran with the best of them—phone phreakers, social engineers, and the most notorious computer hackers of the era. Then she disappeared.

Vim Macro Trickz by Hillel Wayne is just that. For the vimthusiasts.

I found this conceptually sprawling UX article in the depths of my reading list. It’s several years old, so you may spot an outdated reference or two, but the points are still salient.

The Future is Analog (if you can afford it), by Maroussia Lévesque, explores the “analog privilege” of economic elites to escape the automation and A.I. they apply to everyone else.

I spent last Sunday in Central Park with my friend Lindsay, playing with her medium format film camera. She taught me how to focus, the F-stop, the focal range, and even got to peak inside and see how the entirely mechanical apparatus worked. So satisfyingly tactile. Thanks Lindsay!

It's a bright day with a metal foundtain as the focus. The fountain has a decorative angle on top. There's red cobbles on the ground, and trees in the background. Several people of various ethnicities mill around and sit on the lip of the fountain. A big dog on a leash, sleeping outside. The dog's people, a white couple wearing sunglasses, are sitting nearby, holding the leash. Green water with two box turtles, just their shells poking out from the surface. Green water with bushy, green plant clusters popping out in curated clumps. There's a fountain spilling water down in sparkled drops in the top left edge. A castle looking structure shot from a low angle against a bright blue sky. A leafy tree with twisting branches hangs between the viewer and the castle. A park square with many dozens of people enjoying the day, shot from above. There's a fountain in the middle, and behind that is green water. People in row boast glide across the surface, and there's green trees behind on the opposite bank. In the extreme forground, out of focus, is the top of a low wall overlooking the square. A plastic water bottle rests atop it.

Taking gruvbox for a spin today for the first time in years. I’m digging it.

A screenshot of some PHP code in the Gruvbox light theme, is described as a retro groove theme.

leading-trim is dope, y’all. Can’t wait for it to ship.

Leading-Trim: The Future of Digital Typesetting by Ethan Wang.