Odds & Sods

Notes from the shop — process, tools, and the occasional opinion.
March 13, 2017

Adobe Illustrator Turns 30

Like many of my peers, I've had a love/hate relationship with Adobe in recent years. Yes their software is a staple in my toolkit,…
February 17, 2017

Postbox Tip: Change Message Selected After Delete

When you delete an email in Postbox, by default the next message is selected. That means it goes up the chain of emails and…
November 17, 2016

Apple Pages Hide / Show Guides Keyboard Shortcut

We've recently started using Apple Pages over InDesign for client proposals and contracts. It's part of a larger strategy to start moving away from…
November 15, 2016

How to Leave an Organization in Asana

We love Asana here at Spigot, if it wasn't obvious enough. When we work with clients that also use Asana, it's very easy to…
November 1, 2016

Drift Fluid App Icons & Setup

I love using Fluid to run websites as an app, especially websites I need to keep open and active. Like Drift, our on-site chat…
October 17, 2016

Site Stats Restored to the Jetpack Submenu

Jetpack released a new React powered interface in version 4.3, released on September 8th of this year. They worked very hard on it for…
October 13, 2016

From MAMP to Vagrant and Back Again

One of the most rewarding things about web development is that it's always changing. New code specifications, design trends, device capabilities, programming languages, API…
October 10, 2016

Tweetbot Filter Search Bug

I've been using Tweetbot for a few years now and it's still my go to Twitter app on the Mac as well as iOS.…
October 7, 2016

Get the Featured Image of a Parent Page in WordPress

When you're building a number of pages in WordPress that are closely tied to a main, or parent page, tying them together with imagery…
June 1, 2016

Get the Title of the Parent Page; If No Parent, Show this Page’s Title

This snippet is from a book project - the book title needed to be shown on all subsequent chapters, unless it was the main…