I thought I’d retired from the Grand Rapids Griffins’ annual jersey design contest but, as this year’s edition rolled around, I realized that I wanted to revisit my 2016 entry and try to tweak a couple things that bothered me from it. In 2016, I didn’t like that the crest on my submission and the […]
Aside from the Grand Rapids Griffins, I don’t normally enter jersey design contests. In general, I don’t like “fan designed” jersey contests because rarely does an actual fan of the team win. I made an exception this year, though, for the Kalamazoo Wings. I can’t rightfully call myself a Kalamazoo fan given their rivalry with […]
I’ve been toying around with Slackbots a bit lately. Back in January I wrote about publishing a Git log to Slack via one. They’re dirt simple to implement and can be really useful. They can also be fun. I’ve added a couple bots in our office Slack just for posting randomness, running as cron jobs. […]
At my day job our codebase is kept in a handful of self-hosted Git repositories. We have a tool that runs nightly, emailing out a digest of all of the previous day’s commits. It’s kinda cool but I have the tendency to ignore it as a wall of text. I prefer more granular messaging and […]
I have a tendency to like to reinvent the wheel in my development, just to prove that I can. I’ve gotten better about it over the years. I replaced my custom-built blog engine with WordPress on DetroitHockey.Net, for example. I still roll my own classes for interacting with the Trello and Twitter APIs, though. Lately […]
Several years ago I embraced the sour grapes I had about losing the Grand Rapids Griffins’ jersey design contest and wrote about it. Since I’ve been ranting about it all day on Twitter, I figured it was time to do that again. I’ve repeatedly said that I put more thought than the Griffins intend into […]
As I’ve noted in the past, I have a love-hate relationship with the Grand Rapids Griffins’ annual jersey design contest. I have the tendency to put more thought than they probably intend into my own entries and, while I was a finalist last year, I don’t think I ever come close to winning. This year […]
I launched FantasyHockeySim.com as a spinoff of DetroitHockey.Net last summer and the visual elements of it were a rush job. Getting the site out the door was my priority, so I stole design elements for FHS from DH.N and put together a logo that didn’t say “fantasy hockey” at all. Awhile ago I ranted about […]
I am not a journalist. At least that’s how I see it. I spent a lot of time over the last year – DetroitHockey.Net‘s 20th season – thinking about what kind of site I wanted to run and what I wanted to write. I decided that I don’t want to force myself to be unbiased. I […]
I think about hockey sweaters a lot. I’ve collected them since I was a kid. I doodle jersey concepts for fun. I study their history. Of the ones I owned growing up, my favorite was my Steve Yzerman Team Canada jersey from the 1998 Olympics. White with the alternate captain’s A on it. Pro-weight, with that […]