Rather than a blog, I like to think of this space as a personal notebook that is open and available for all to see. If I'm already keeping notes for my own various uses, why not share them publicly and hopefully provide value to others as well?
To my creative friends:
I once heard advice to start every day by creating something — anything!
You’ll feel better knowing you created and be better able to take on the less creative, monotonous things you have to do throughout the day.
I’m sharing this now, because I feel like it is more true and necessary than ever.
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Photograph: Down the shore in February, back when doing stuff was still a thing
If you send and receive a lot of text messags, especially ones with images and photographs, you may find that your Mac Messages application is taking up a LOT of precious space. Here are options for recovering storage space that is being used by your text messages and photo attachments:
Consider the advice and suggestions of others but follow your own heart and dreams. Live your life now.
Photo: Great Smoky Mountains National Park, 3/31/2018.
What good is a textbook on a shelf? Knowledge is important but if and how you apply it is what counts. Imagination is the ultimate application of your personal experiences, thoughts and knowledge.
Photograph: Vancouver, BC, Canada. 1/2020.
Had a great conversation related to this. The mind gets in the way of creating. If you can get over mental hurdles of perfectionism, getting things right the first time, judgement, and other similar self-sabotages, you free yourself to create.
Photograph: The wonderful Big Pine Key, Florida. October 2019
Photograph: Town Bank, NJ Sunset - 12/2019
It’s so easy to overthink things. Do more of what you love, less of what you don’t, and enjoy the moment.
Photograph: Sunset on the bay down the shore on Saturday. One of the last of 2019.
If you'd to show some HTML content on a Shopify product page ONLY if the product has a specific tag, the following is the trick that will help you (hopefully!).
My use case: In one of my Shopify stores, I wanted to automatically show a different set of Frequently Asked Questions and Testimonials for each type of product I had. To accomplish this, I decided to tag each piece of content with the type of product it was. Then I wrote up some simple HTML to display for each product type. Then, I inserted the following for/if statement into the product-template.liquid:
I was interested in adding a Shopify store to my existing website, while also using the domain name I already had (rather than use the storename.myshopify.com web site address that Shopify provides). The solution that made most sense, in my head at least, was to make the Shopify store accessible through my domain name as a subdomain.
As in, make the Shopfiy store accessible via shop.mydomainname.com, where mydomainname.com was my existing site.
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