Author: Eric Binnion
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The things we remember and Bing
I often find myself trying to reference a person or movie in a conversation but I can’t quite remember the name. This recently occurred for me when I was wanting to reference Ready Player One, so I gave Bing the information that I could recall and it helped me remember. 😄
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Coffee shop musings
Sara at Collective Coffee during a break from work.
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Rewiring outlets
We recently closed on a house on February 1st. The most annoying thing about the house is that nearly all of the outlets are two-prong and there’s not seemingly any ground wires run throughout the house. With much of our electronics now being three-prong, we needed to upgrade the outlets, which I used as a…
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Puppy kisses
I spent December 8th-12th in Port Clinton for the Winter Airgun matches. When we came back from several days away, I had to give our now 7-month-old puppies some love.
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Have you tried it to see what breaks?
Last year, my team received a challenge from our CEO to try to significantly improve our purchase flow along with a bit of time pressure. For several months, I’d had a good, high-level idea of how we might improve our purchase flow. But, as the idea lacked concrete implementation details, we kept prioritizing other work…
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Getting a list of all Google Fonts
As part of a recent audit that I was doing of Google Font usage in a codebase, I had a need to get a list of all Google Fonts. But, after a bit of searching, I wasn’t finding an easily consumable list of these fonts. But, it turns out that if you get an Google…
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Where’d that 7 come from?
I shot this target last week. Just that one shot that must’ve come from someone else.
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Target backer after match
After getting done with the Texas State Indoor Championship this past weekend, one of the most satisfying things is taking a look at the backer and seeing your overall group. It’s especially satisfying the more that I shoot out the black.
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Simple Github Webhook handler in PHP
Over the past month or so, I spent a bit of time working on setting up a local development environment for a project that I’m working on. As part of that, I also set up a deployment flow using a simple Github webhook handler in PHP. I modeled this Github webhook handler very much after…
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Portugal Road Trip 2022
This past June, following the Crew meetup in Porto, Sara and I rented a car and drove from Porto to Lisbon. We stopped at several places along the way as well including Nazare and Sintra.
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Jetpack Crew Meetup in Porto
In June, I flew to Porto, Portugal to join the Crew team on their meetup. After nearly 2 years with Automattic not having meetups, it was great to see some old friends as well as meet several new people that we’d added in the past couple of years. Near the beginning of the meetup, I…
