Odds & Sods

Notes from the shop — process, tools, and the occasional opinion.
April 8, 2020

Smooth Scroll Offset Anchor Links with CSS

Don't you hate it when you create an anchor link and it gets covered up by a fixed header? And isn't it a bummer…
August 22, 2019

Getting Apple Maps to Open on a Website Link

Google Maps is pretty good. It's been around for a long time and it gets you there most of the time. It's widely used…
January 9, 2019

Turn Off Photoshop’s New Default Proportional Transform

Update: Photoshop 2020 now has a setting to use the 'legacy' transform behavior. Go to Preferences > General and tick the 'Use Legacy Free…
September 27, 2018

Solved: Typinator Not Working in MacOS Mojave

I've been using Typinator for years now to expand content with a few keystrokes. Filling out a form is easy when I can type…
June 7, 2018

Solved: Local by Flywheel Stuck on Provisioning (Installing WordPress)

I've had a long history of wrestling with local development environments. While I haven't written much (none) about it, for the last year plus…
May 10, 2018

Bear Notes Mac Keyboard Shortcuts

Here's a quick list of Mac keyboard shortcuts for Bear Notes App Editor Text Styles ⌥⌘1 , ⌥⌘2, … ⌥⌘6 - Headings ⌥⌘S -…
April 7, 2018

All My Instagrams Are MINE

There was a time in the early days of social media that I signed up for every service that came out. The username @spigot…
April 5, 2018

Didn’t Quite Make It But Still Committed

When I set out to write a blog post per day in the month of March I was fully committed. The goal was two-fold:…
March 3, 2018

Disable Autocorrect in Mac OS

There are a ton of funny autocorrect stories out there and probably more than one website dedicated to the hilarity. We've all been frustrated…
February 28, 2018

For the Open Web and Independent Publishing: A Month of Blogging

A post from John Gruber came across my RSS feed today about an online publisher shutting down because of Facebook's new algorithm. Gruber links…