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
gutenberg
When I first experienced Gutenberg when upgrading to WordPress 5 it was a terrible experience. The ‘+’ new block icon didn’t work, and I couldn’t figure out how to add any blocks. It gave me one to jam everything in. It turns out I had the visual editor disabled
tailwind
When building websites it’s so easy to just grab Bootstrap or Foundation and take off running. Better yet, grab a theme off of one of the many theme sites who integrate bootstrap for you and go. Tailwind CSS has always been in the back of my mind as I
WordPress 5 + Gutenberg…. What happened????? How do I add more blocks? How do I add links? How do I do anything with this? This is a disaster. Update: Turns out “Disable the visual editor when writing” in my user profile was checked and that kills all blocks.
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Over the years we have jumped cell phone carriers mostly switching between Sprint and it’s MVNOs. For the past few years we have been on Ting and so far it’s a win for us. Ting allows you to pick between CDMA and GSM. With CDMA you are on
Learning about automated testing and implementing is great. Unfortunately some projects I work on are multi tenant, and each client has it’s own subdomain. I then have an “app” subdomain with separate routes on it for things like API, or switching tenants if you belong to multiple of them.
If you have ever moved a far distance there are ‘odd’ things that popup you did not expect. When we moved to Colorado the bugs were a lot less than in Michigan. Now that we are in Florida, the bugs have come back with a vengeance. The other day as
I was installing a Nest in the new house and the thing was only blowing out hot air even while on cool. I ended up calling an HVAC company and they came out and switched 2 wires. For some reason Nest has them switched on their wire guide or my
We found the floor plan we wanted and the location they were building it was great. It’s the wait time that is killer.
A lot of the frontend frameworks go through building a basic todo app. However building a feature rich one is considerably much harder. During my day to day work we use Basecamp 2 and 3, Youtrack and several other tools. All of them have their strengths and their weaknesses. I
Corporate or marketing sites often times don’t need full blast content management systems. It’s also nice to have the marketing site on a different server than the web application. After doing a side project that uses Jekyll and Cloud Cannon for the CMS it got me thinking on