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May 29, 2020

How to sanely use multiple Google accounts

In a perfect world, we would each have a single Google account. Everything we ever needed would be housed conveniently behind a single impenetrable login. But we live in an imperfect world. One which requires many of us to have 2, 3, or dozens of Google accounts. It can be…

Google Account

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How to sanely use multiple Google accounts
How to sanely use multiple Google accounts
Google Account

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·Mar 12, 2019

Death by Choice

We live in the age of options. The grocery store has an entire aisle of cereals. Phones come in multiple shades of black. And within 5 seconds anyone with a smartphone can pull up a list of all the restaurants around them. Life as a human has never been better…

Life Lessons

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Death by Choice
Death by Choice
Life Lessons

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Feb 22, 2019

How to elegantly use Google Voice and Google Fi on the same phone

I’ve been using Google Fi (previously Project Fi) for a few years now and it’s excellent but using it with Google Voice is tricky. This seems odd at first because you’d think two Google services would play well together, but they don’t for technical reasons that basically amount to “they’re…

Google

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How to elegantly use Google Voice and Google Fi on the same phone
How to elegantly use Google Voice and Google Fi on the same phone
Google

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Jan 24, 2019

Replace default search form in Wordpress with Timber

Are you using Wordpress and Timber to build a site? Need to replace the default search form? Here’s how. Step 1: searchform.php Create a file called searchform.php in your theme and put this in it: <?php $context = Timber::get_context(); $site = new TimberSite(); Timber::render( 'searchform.twig', $context ); ?> $site = new TimberSite(); allows…

Web Development

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Web Development

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Jan 23, 2019

Create a lightbox gallery with standard Bootstrap components.

There are plenty of great lightbox plugins out there, but you can easily make your own lightbox gallery using Bootstrap. No custom JS needed! All you have to do is add a few data attributes to your markup. Here’s an example in Codepen. Read on for a step-by-step. Step 1: create your gallery. This is…

Web Development

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Web Development

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Apr 12, 2018

Questions from my sister

About web design, not anything meaningful. My sister is interested in web design/development and she recently sent me a bunch of questions about my experience. It struck me as good content so here it is. You’re a front end, right? Mostly, but I also do a lot of templating. Depends on the platform that’s used…

Web Development

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Web Development

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Feb 17, 2018

Easy WordPress Theme Customization

AKA the Astra+Elementor Method. UPDATE #2: since writing this, Elementor has added a Theme Builder. It’s a very powerful system that lets you natively use Elementor to build the header, footer, and various page templates. There’s no longer any need for the Header Footer Elementor plugin mentioned below. UPDATE #1…

WordPress

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WordPress

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Feb 6, 2018

13 Lessons From My First Year As an Independent Web Designer/Developer. (The 7th one is CRAZY!!1!11!)

Just kidding, I don’t even remember what the 7th one is. Anyway, It’s been about a year since I quit my job to do independent web design and development. And that year has been one heck of a learning process, which I have been documenting in part with a growing…

Web Development

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Web Development

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Jan 29, 2018

How to use Git with a Media Temple Grid server

I recently spent an entire day getting Git to work with my Media Temple Grid server, so I’m posting instructions here in case someone else runs into the same issues (read: I want to make myself feel like I didn’t waste 8 hrs of my life). The instructions below are…

Git

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Git

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Nov 13, 2015

Big South Fork

I’ve heard a lot about this place over the past couple years, and I finally got to see it for myself. 125,000 acres of gorgeous scenery surrounding the Big South Fork of the Cumberland River. …

Travel

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Big South Fork
Big South Fork
Travel

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Diego Vogel

Diego Vogel

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Design, code, nature. Founder of birdboar.co

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