jazzsequence | I make websites and things

Hi, I’m ChrisI make websites and things. Lately, I’ve been experimenting a lot with Large Language Models (colloquially known as AI) to test their capabilities and to help make my job and D&D Dungeon Mastering life easier. Feel free to click around to learn more about stuff I like to do and/or am working on.

Hallowe’en: what we’re celebrating

Since I get a kick out of digging into the history of such things (like I did for Valentine’s Day a couple of years ago), and since I — being a recovering goth, former Catholic, and damn heretic — know a few things on the subject, I thought it would be fun to look at…

October 31, 2012
(via @801PUNX: Just dropped off these captain …)

(via @801PUNX: Just dropped off these captain …)

October 30, 2012
Spooky doom! @slighter’s got a new track for Halloween

Check it out. It’s full of awesome. Last Pulse (Halloween 2012) by Slighter

October 29, 2012
The first rule of functions…

The first rule of functions is that they should be small. The second rule of functions is that they should be smaller than that. Functions should not be 100 lines long. Functions should hardly ever be 20 lines long. What Constitutes Clean Code in WordPress? – @tommcfarlin (original quote from Clean Code by Bob Martin)

October 23, 2012
The agony and the ecstasy of Automattic’s Jetpack

In a discussion on Twitter with the Internet’s @SiobhanPMcKeown (if you don’t know who Siobhan is, you don’t read many WordPress blogs) & @Krogsgard about WordPress themes with lots of options, I mentioned that I’ve been thinking about ways to justify removing options from Museum Core in favor of using plugins to accomplish those same things. Case…

October 22, 2012
(via Weighthacker These foods will make you more productive and…

(via Weighthacker These foods will make you more productive and boost your morale)

October 19, 2012
The about.me WordPress widget in the wild

Well, it’s a good thing I prettied up my site recently. Because I started using the About.me widget shortly after they launched it, I got featured on their blog. The about.me WordPress widget in the wild | About.me Blog.

October 19, 2012
Timed Screenshot Alfred Extension

I was shocked — SHOCKED, I tell you!!! — to learn today that Skitch (the once-amazing screen-capture and image sharing app that is almost worth ditching Windows for Mac just to be able to use) no longer lets you do timed screenshots. What??? I was so upset, I had to do some digging and learned…

October 15, 2012
Search Engine Optimized breadcrumbs

I had a need to build some search engine optimized breadcrumbs for a project I’m working on right now. I didn’t want to just use Yoast’s breadcrumbs, because I’m using Twitter Bootstrap, and I wanted to make use of the built-in breadcrumbs support, so I did a Google, found something, tweaked it and am using…

October 11, 2012
Use Alfred to set up a WordPress theme based on _s and Twitter Bootstrap

I said a long time ago that I would never use another theme framework now that I have Museum Core. Well, unfortunately for me, WordCamp SLC — particularly the presentations of Jake Spurlock, George Ortiz and Patrick Cox, as well as working on the theme which was based on _s — changed my mind on…

October 4, 2012