My friend Ryan wanted a closer look at my deployment processes for my Jekyll site, so I put together information about how I use Drafts, Hazel, Shell Scripts, rsync, and Pushover to deploy this Jekyll. Additionally, the note contains some of the other tricks I use. Check out the details over at my About This Jekyll Site note! As with my other notes, it'll surely expand in the future. PS Did you know my whole site is viewable on GitHub?

I've kicked off my note about International Travel Tips with a breakdown of The Four Traveler's Skills. I heard someone offhandedly mention these recently, but couldn't find any online mention of them; so I expanded upon them with my own thoughts as a frequent international traveler. The note will also serve as a base for other travel tips to be expanded upon later. Hope you enjoy!

I've ported this site to Jekyll, the static site generator, after having it in WordPress for about a year after converting it from it's original platform, Drupal, which I do nearly all my Front End Development & Theming in. I initially moved to WordPress as I wanted a lower barrier towards publishing than Drupal; I had hoped that the plethora of apps and integration that the WordPress ecosystem provides would allow me to skip a web back-end interface when it came to something I wanted to quickly share that I discovered while working.

Here's all my keyboard shortcuts I have set up for window management using Moom, which could be set up for Divvy (a former favorite) or any other similar app. Super easy to remember once you get the hang of it and how it's all using the same modifier keys and the keys are on the same row. I especially like the 1/3 left/right and 2/3 left/right combos. The corner ones get used lots too. Check out Moom if you still use a mouse to move windows around.

My friend is traveling the world right now, and sent me this message:

This blew my mind. Hat Tip: +Chris Bloom.

Very cool series of these shots.

Corporations now only need to have made a "diligent search" to find the owner of the content before use. From the article: 'The Act contains changes to UK copyright law which permit the commercial exploitation of images where information identifying the owner is missing, so-called "orphan works", by placing the work into what's known as "extended collective licensing" schemes. Since most digital images on the internet today are orphans - the metadata is missing or has been stripped by a large organization - millions of photographs and illustrations are swept into such schemes.

Coffee lover? Take note of this amazing prep method that blows me away with its taste, speed, and awesome ability to make a single cup. After tossing in a filter, grounds, & then hot water into the lower chamber of the AeroPress, you put the top plunger in and then press down slowly, which uses air to push the water through the grounds and then through the filter into your cup. Since the water doesn't soak in the coffee long, it is void of most bitterness, and you pretty much end up with espresso. Phenomenally awesome. ~$30

A rapid prototyping and static site generation tool for designers and developers

Tons of features; really cool stuff going on there. Check out the HTML variables and the Liquid templating engine from Shopify. Also take a peak at the Models data storage approach for some really cool stuff. Additionally there's a bunch of great frameworks ready to bootstrap your project (and yes, Bootstrap is one of them ;) I gave it a comparison to Hammer and think Mixture is better.