Let us be to the going

Blog Yeah, kitt finished writing this at 15:39 on 13 March 2014

Let us be to the going,
For my heart is now broken,
And this world holds my breath in its hands.

Let us be to the going,
Knowing the sun has now sunken,
And the cold comes too fast to these lands.

Let us be to the going,
And remember our folly,
Each moment but part of the sands.

Let us be to the going.

If you're attending my Fluent talk, Automating ALL THE FRONT-END THINGS!

A note I sent maybe too late:

I'm excited you're attending the Automate ALL THE FRONT-END THINGS! workshop. We'll be discussng Sass and Grunt, during the workshop, with hands-on editing and updates of a practice site. If you can, install node and ruby before the workshop.

Node is easy to install. Go to http://nodejs.org/ click the install link and run the installer. This works on Mac, Linux and Windows.

Ruby is a little more complicated, but not much. First, see if you have it already installed: in a Terminal window, type "which ruby" and "ruby --version" If the first one returns a value and the second returns a version, you're good. If you're on a Windows box, use "where" instead of "which".

If you need to install ruby, on a Mac, you can use Homebrew (brew.sh) with $ brew install ruby, or RVM https://rvm.io. If you are nervous on the command line, use JewelryBox https://unfiniti.com/software/mac/jewelrybox

If you're on a Linux box, you can use apt or yum to install ruby (sudo apt-get install ruby1.9.1) or RVM https://rvm.io.

If you're on a Windows box, use RubyInstaller http://rubyinstaller.org/downloads/ or Pik https://github.com/vertiginous/pik

I'll review both of these at the beginning of the workshop. If you haven't installed these on your laptop, you'll have a chance to do so as I talk about the guiding principles of making workflows awesome.

Sometimes you have to say yes to your inner 10 year old child

Blog kitt decided around 18:49 on 4 March 2014 to publish this:

Yes, sometimes you have to say yes to your inner 10 year old child.

Especially when she wants stickers.

Chrome show IP address

Blog Yeah, kitt finished writing this at 14:51 on 20 February 2014

Oddly, Chrome developer tools don't have a "show IP address" option. I say "oddly" because it is a fundamental check that developers do when checking cached items on round-robin DNS servers.

Anyway, via http://superuser.com/questions/633714/how-to-get-remote-ip-in-google-chrome-browser, the ShowIP address plugin / extension https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/showip/agoljmemkbciolpigpabjfkagboolkcj gives you the IP address in both IP4 and IP6. They are shown in the bottom right. Whoo.

Unfortunately, this won't help me for the odd edge cache served asset, unless I load only it, which is a little more annoying, but still completely doable.

I prefer Firefox's display of all of the IP address for each asset of the request. Sometimes I'm not working in Firefox.

Regardless, odd problem solved (and I can close that tab! yay!).

Jonathan and I flying over Wellington

Blog Yeah, kitt finished writing this at 11:38 on 16 February 2014

The kid in the background cracks me up.

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