SuperGeekery: A blog probably of interest only to nerds by John F Morton.

I write and main­tain a Yeo­man gen­er­a­tor called ​“Build A Ban­ner”, aka BAB. As you might guess from the title, the gen­er­a­tor helps in devel­op­ing ani­mat­ed dis­play ad ban­ners. It cre­ates a direc­to­ry with cus­tomized HTML, JS and CSS starter files, builds a small devel­op­ment serv­er with live-reload­ing, and has work­flows for opti­miz­ing and deliv­er­ing ban­ners to a media com­pa­ny. We use it all the time at JMX2. Although I’ve been main­tain­ing this repo… + read on

I was recent­ly updat­ing my site and decid­ed to use Michael Rog’s Word­smith plu­g­in for some text manip­u­la­tion. His Word­smith plu­g­in includ­ed some fea­tures that I liked that my own cus­tom plu­g­in, a sim­ple port of Hack­saw, didn’t include. I had cre­at­ed this plu­g­in when Craft 3 was ear­ly in devel­op­ment, a time when there were many few­er plu­g­ins avail­able and no plu­g­in store at all. Installing plu­g­ins through Craft 3’s Plu­g­in Store makes things… + read on

If you use the com­mand line and you’re lazy, this is for you. I’ve picked up a lot of tips in cus­tomz­ing my com­mand line over the course of many years. Most of them I aban­don after the ​“new” wears off, but a few stick around. Specif­i­cal­ly, I have some alias­es that I find use­ful enough that they’re part of the set up process when I get a new Mac. (Yes, these are Mac spe­cif­ic… + read on

Like many of my posts here, this is anoth­er note to myself to help me when I have ques­tions about get­ting things done. I recent­ly fin­ished Pic Puller for Craft 3, avail­able in fin­er Craft 3 plu­g­in stores every­where. But the point of this post is how it actu­al­ly got there. The con­ver­sion of the plu­g­in from its Craft 2-com­pat­i­ble ver­sion to Craft 3 was the first step of the process. Andrew Welch’s Plug​in​fac​to​ry​.io real­ly… + read on

When I have a new project that requires some Ama­zon S3 stor­age, I try to do the ​“right thing” for secu­ri­ty by cre­at­ing a new user and a new buck­et entire­ly. I don’t want to share any cre­den­tials across projects. That means after I have cre­at­ed my S3 buck­et I neeed to assign a user with the appro­pri­ate per­mis­sions. For me, that typ­i­cal­ly means I want this new user to have full access to man­age… + read on

On Jan­u­ary 30, 2018, Insta­gram post­ed a dep­re­ca­tion notice for The Insta­gram API Plat­form. There is a new­er API called the Insta­gram Graph API. The new­er API’s focus is for busi­ness­es, not indi­vid­ual accounts though. This is the 2^nd major change made to the API. The first major change was in Novem­ber 2015. If you’re curi­ous, here’s the announc­ment. The changes intro­duced a new app review process and lim­it­ed 3^rd par­ty access… + read on

I have used MAMP for local devel­op­ment for a long time. Sev­er­al peo­ple I know through the Craft CMS Slack group have pro­fessed the ben­e­fits of [Lar­avel Valet](https://laravel.com/docs/5.5/valet ​‘Lar­avel Valet doc­u­men­ta­tion’) so I decid­ed to give it a spin as an alter­na­tive to MAMP. When it comes to Craft CMS there is a built-in dri­ver that allows Valet to serve a Craft site with­out any addi­tion­al con­fig­u­ra­tion. You just place your Craft site in the… + read on

I had a client who want­ed to embed YouTube videos in their Craft CMS site. It would have been eas­i­est for me to have them only include the YouTube video ID but the shar­ing box on YouTube gives you a full YouTube URL. You can see that URL in the image at the begin­ning of this post. I didn’t want to add any plug-ins to my Craft CMS site to do this so I decid­ed… + read on

I had to debug an issue with a site I built when client/​friend dis­cov­ered that the menu tog­gle icon dis­ap­peared only when vis­it­ing her site from with­in Insta­gram, specif­i­cal­ly, on her bio page where she has a link to her site. Being an in-app brows­er with­in an appli­ca­tion I have no con­trol of, I strug­gled to debug this prob­lem. The ​“user­A­gent” string, as shown in the image above helped me out. I used the fol­low­ing… + read on

Note to self: Don’t erase your knownhosts file. (head­slap!) I pro­vi­sion servers with Lar­avel Forge and messed up my deploy­ment from Github recent­ly. I was mess­ing around in the .ssh fold­er on my serv­er and delet­ed the known_hosts file. The next time I tried to deploy my code base from Github though, I got the fol­low­ing error. Host key verification failed. fatal: Could not read from remote repository. I need­ed to get my… + read on