Buying a car with Carvana Part 2

Carvana let me down delaying delivery 5 times. I ended up cancelling the order while purchasing a car at a dealership.

Buying a car with Carvana

Recently our old car finally went down. Years ago the trade was worth $500 so I was happy to get $500 for it now. Though what a terrible time to buy a car with dealerships having low inventory. We ended up going with Carvana because we could see what the

Shopify App Bridge and React Router

I recently started building Shopify apps and ran into a problem with an embedded app and getting the URL change to reflect in the browser. The iframe would update, and I would be on the page, but the URL in the browser wouldn’t update. While not a critical feature,

Shopify Polaris and the missing placeholder

I have recently been working on a Shopify app and came across a minor annoyance with a ResourceList that I solved, and then figured out why it was happening. When adding a filter, it provides a search box, and all the examples had a placerholder in it, except mine did

Interviewing after being the interviewer

I recently switched jobs after just shy of 5 years. Over those past 4+ years I have interviewed dozens of people for a job and learned a lot about the process. The 2 way street For starters, it helped me be relaxed during the interview process. I always tried to

Having a family and continuing education

Having a family definitely slows down the long nights going through an online course and digesting everything. Back in the bachelor life I could spend the entire weekend going through some course. Now though, the kids are doing things, I am spending time with my wife, lawn care has to

Laravel Nova with your pipelines updated

Shortly after I added ‘Laravel Nova with your pipelines‘ I stumbled across a tweet on using an environment variable with composer. So instead of maintaining an auth.json file in the repository and using sed to replace placeholders, you can just add a COMPOSER_AUTH environment variable with the entire

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Laravel Nova with your pipelines

If you use Laravel Nova, you undoubtedly were happy when Taylor started allowing us to use composer to install and update Nova. By doing so you create or edit your ~/.composer/auth.json file with something like the following: { "http-basic": { "nova.laravel.com": { "username"

Adding Facebook Pixel to Google Tag Manager

Adding the Facebook pixel to your Google Tag Manager account is really quite easy. To start, let’s go to the Tags page and click the ‘New’ button. Where it is named ‘Untitled Tag’ go ahead and change that to ‘Facebook Pixel’. This is for informational purposes only. Next, click

Google Tag Manager 'Page View' tags not firing

If you landed on this page, you are probably trying to figure out why your ‘Page View’ tags aren’t firing. I ran across this problem myself, and that is why I am writing this blog post. First up, make sure your Google Tag Manager is added to your site.

Google Tag Manager and how to use it. The basics.

Have you ever wondered what Google Tag Manager (GTM) is? Does it seem complex to you? Did you notice that the new Google Analytics script references tag manager? There are 2 main components we are going to talk about. The first is tags and the second is triggers. In the