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Desk: A nice (but expensive) distraction-free writing experience

Post author By mikey
Post date November 3, 2014
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Desk is a new publishing app for OS X.

With Desk, you can publish from your desktop to your WordPress, Blogger, Tumblr, Squarespace, Movable Type (is that still around?), Typepad, and even Facebook Notes.

You are a storyteller, passionate about crafting narratives that capture, express, and delight in what it means to be human.
Desk is built with that intent and mission in mind: To reduce the clutter, the noise, the distractions and the obstructions that keep us from writing and sharing those stories.
Fall in love with writing, again.

As a blogger who loves using WordPress to share stories, pictures, and life with my friends and family – I was excited to hear about a new app that could potentially make this experience better and easier. So, I bought the app for $30, and started typing this review.

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Mikey’s Plugin List: Broken Link Checker

Post author By mikey
Post date July 23, 2014
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Welcome to Mikey’s Plugin List – my own curated list of plugins that I love and use.

Broken Link Checker

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Description: This plugin will check your posts, comments and other content for broken links and missing images, and notify you if any are found.

Pretty basic but super useful. It goes through your entire site and checks for broken links. If it finds any, it will email you letting you know the link no longer works.

Very useful if you’ve just migrated your site over or if you have thousands of links and would like to make sure they are still working and not giving your readers a nice 404 surprise.

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WordPress Snippet: show all child pages of a page

Post author By mikey
Post date July 21, 2014
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Here is a pretty handy snippet that will display all the child pages of the current page:

<?php
  $children = wp_list_pages('title_li=&child_of='.$post->ID.'&echo=0');
  if ($children) { ?>
  <ul>
  <?php echo $children; ?>
  </ul>
  <?php } ?>

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Why I need to learn Grunt

Post author By mikey
Post date December 17, 2013
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Chris Coyier of css-tricks.com and codepen.io fame has an excellent article about using Grunt.

Grunt for People Who Think Things Like Grunt are Weird and Hard via 24 Ways.

I had heard about Grunt for a while, but I didn’t feel like yet another tool would make my workflows that much better. After testing it out and seeing the potential behind Grunt, I now think of it as an essential part of a modern web developer’s workflow.

Go check out Grunt – it’s like CodeKit… but so much more!!

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Quickly see pixel dimensions on a Mac with Quicklook

Post author By mikey
Post date August 28, 2013
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Via Cult of Mac

Update: Currently not working on Mavericks.

I can’t even count how many times a day I have to check image dimensions, image sizes, and my current solution currently requires using the Finder to see the document details about each file. That gets too time consuming, especially when I’m doing it all the time.

I found this great little QuickLook plugin that solves this problem for me. Using the built-in awesomeness of QuickLook on a Mac, I can quickly and easily see the size and pixel dimensions of any image.

Download the plugin from GitHub.