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.
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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
Gutenberg blocks disabled, thoughts after I fixed it
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 CSS, I try it out on the TodoSage website
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 Gutenberg
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.
If you are interested in model rockets, check this out
If you are interested in taking those neat little estes rockets to the next level, checkout bps.space
Ting, why we switched and you should too
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
Subdomain testing in Laravel
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.
New struggles moving around
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
Darn Nest had my wires reversed
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
Building a house takes a while
We found the floor plan we wanted and the location they were building it was great. It’s the wait time that is killer.
Building a 'todo' app
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
Switching to Netlify
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
#LongmontStories where did you go
If you follow me on Facebook you may have come across my #LongmontStories posts. These are weird things that I witnessed while working on Main St in Longmont, CO. Unfortunately we moved offices, and although we are still on Main St. I don’t have a direct view of the
When is it ready?
When is the app I am building ready for the world to see? There is always more cleanup, more features, blah blah blah to keep the development process going. Meanwhile at work, I am fighting off ‘cool features’ for the sake of of being ‘cool’.
A random female peacock on our deck
I found this gal just randomly hanging out on our back deck.
How have I missed this?
With all these Shia LeBeouf videos being created I came across this video from Rob Cantor.
Interviewing for a Job in the Adult Entertainment Industry
Late last year I had a recruiter contact me for a web developer position working at one of the major adult entertainment industry companies. Interesting I thought. Would I take the position if I got it, I don’t know. Would you? The salary was between $90k – $95k. Very tempting!
Picking The Place To Rent
Finding a place to rent can be stressful. Growing up I heard in movies and from others about “slumlords”. These are basically landlords that let their properties go to waste while tenants are still renting them. When I first moved out of my parents house I was concerned about this.
PHP Mcrypt on OSX with XAMPP
Was composer not able to find the mcrypt PHP extension? When I developing on my local machine I use XAMPP because it is easy to setup. I also tend to use Laravel for a lot of projects as well. If you are using the same, when doing a composer update
Deploying Laravel with Capistrano
I am always looking for better ways of deploying me code. In the past I have used Fabric to create a deployment process. Although I use git, I have never used it for deployments. With Fabric I copied my code to another folder, did any processing such as removing files,
Why It's Good to Apply to Multiple Jobs
When I was looking for a job I had applied to quite a few positions. Several lead to phone interviews, and a little less than that lead to in-person interviews. The place I landed at (company A), I had applied to a few weeks before hearing a response back. During