Much like last fall’s version of the Twitterpocalypse saw people running to Mastodon (and, seemingly, quickly running back to Twitter) as a replacement social media platform, this summer’s edition has seen a shift to Bluesky social. As I try to keep my various sites relevant, that means learning how to have them interact programmatically with […]
On how I learn, how I code, and not sharing well with others.
I have a tendency to like to reinvent the wheel in my development, just to prove that I can. I’ve gotten better about it over the years. I replaced my custom-built blog engine with WordPress on DetroitHockey.Net, for example. I still roll my own classes for interacting with the Trello and Twitter APIs, though. Lately […]
I wrote last month about launching FantasyHockeySim.com and replacing the old DetroitHockey.Net Community Forums with a Slack team. At the time I promised a future post about the work I did with the Slack API. The Slack API uses OAuth for authentication, which isn’t really a surprise. It does open up problems if you want to […]
So a little while ago I was thinking about Ricky Robinett‘s blog post about using Twilio to get notified about World Series ticket deals. Specifically, I was questioning the use of Twilio to drive the notifications. Personally, I prefer my notifications via email. To the point that I look at that post and think, “Come […]
Last week I wrote about my presentation at TechSmith’s Recon conference, “Implementing Advanced Trello Functionality via the Trello API.” Embedded in that post is a video of the presentation itself. It’s not the video that was included when I first published the post, though. I initially published the post with video embedded straight from TechSmith […]
Up until about thirty seconds before I hit publish on this post, there was a section on this site called “Code Samples.” I removed it (after pulling one piece of code over to this blog) because I realized it wasn’t providing what it should. Said section was made up of four links to zip files, […]
I’d been extremely resistant to adopting third-party tools in my development efforts for a very long time. I liked owning my tools end-to-end and I liked writing my own code just for the sake of knowing exactly how it worked. I didn’t even have a Gmail account because I was running my own mail server […]