restaurants Dexter's - Edina, MN It's my new weeknight "I just want to go out" pick - a burger and a martini at the bar is the solution for just about anything.
AI Featured A New Squarespace to Ghost Script When I wanted to move from Squarespace to Ghost, I ran into a problem: there is no built-in way to migrate. You either have to work with their Concierge service, or roll-your-own. Naturally, I decided to roll my own. I came across this script by Simon Facciol, and based my
What's New Hey Internet: I'm Back. I've let this site languish for years, so I'm once again moving it in an attempt to inspire me. All the usual reasons are in play: 1. I'm sick of paying Squarespace for a site that I basically
What's Next? I have some personal news: I’ve left Augeo, and am taking a brief step back to explore what the next arc of my career should look like. I’ve been on an unplanned, but fortunate, journey since college - in fact, I chose Hamline University mostly due to their
year-in-review Some of my Favorite Moments of 2018 When I was thinking about 2018, it boiled down to a bunch of moments. This wasn’t a big ‘theme’ year for me - I mostly tried to have a stable year, rather than one where I changed everything about my life. We spent the year traveling, being with friends
mphio 7 Years Today marks 7 years since I registered mitchellhislop.com. Though it now just redirects to this site, mph.io, it marked the beginning of a journey that led directly to where I am today. I was two months into my college career and decided it would be cool to own
apple My Love-Hate Relationship with "Hey, Siri" What cannot be overcome is, whatever you ask Siri, will be heard by someone else. Even an innocent question to get the sports score can be something to fear asking in public. Someone will hear, and then you will have to converse with that person about your team. Ben Brooks
Why Analog Sometime back when I was in High School, I got my first fountain pen. It was kind of on a whim - I thought they were cool. That is literally it. From then, I was hooked. This, despite being a Millennial, having a Palm Pilot/Phone/Laptop, and planning on
analytics Calculated Metrics Come to Google Analytics Wrote this for the work blog, but it gets me excited enough that I also wanted to touch on this here. Google Analytics has rolled out support for calculated metrics, which means we can now define custom metrics (such as Revenue per User) inside of Google Analytics, rather than needing
Always Be Prepared Note: This is the unplanned first post in what has become a series of posts laying out how I approach "doing things". I've realized there are a couple tenents I follow pretty closely, and I want to figure out why. This post was a spark of
apps Pause: A Relaxation App for iPhone “After opening the app, you simply place your finger on the screen and slowly and continuously move it around so that the airy orb of color floating beneath your finger gathers smaller orbs like itself, growing larger and larger until the screen is filled. ” I've been playing with
lamy My Pen Loadout: Mid-October 2015 I tend to switch pens too much. I don't know why I do it, but I will regularly find myself swapping pens mid-page for no real reason. I don't have an official "system" to what I use for any given task . I figure doing
emerald-of-chivor Emerald of Chivor I have been absolutely in love with this ink since it first shipped. While it is in no way an every day ink, I've taken to using it for my weekend todo lists - makes me all that much more likely to look at it. It seems like
spotify Chromecast and Spotify - Together at Last As someone who owns multiple Chromecasts, including one for his bag "just in case", this is huge news for me. I had figured they were just not going to support it, and was planning on just using Bluetooth speakers everywhere. Kudos to Spotify for finally listening to its
living-online New Home I realized that a big reason I never wrote here is that it didn't feel like "home". And it wasn't. It was a line item on a much bigger list regard my entire online lifestyle. Do I want a personal cloud? Should I host
Living Online, Long Term For most of my parents lives, most of what they had to worry about keeping track of or safe was contained in a filing cabinet and a photo album. As a 25 year old, just starting my own journey, I already have over a terrabyte of hard drives in a
software-development My Hardest Outage Yet Note: I thought that I had saved a bunch of documentation, notes, and output from this experience, both for documentation, and becuase I figured I would be writing a post. However, I can't seem to find it anywhere. If I do, there will be an updated version While
musings Nuked It All I finally went ahead and did it. I nuked all my old writing. Posts going back to 2008, back when I was just learning all this stuff. I was in college, dying to stand out, and happened to grok WordPress really well. That was my in - I was in
musings 2015 - Whats in Store Inspiried by all the other "2015" posts I have seen today (especially Patrick Rhone's, I figured I needed to call out what I wanted to accomplish this year. It's a hodpoge of resolutions, goals, and general themes, in no particular order. * Read more + read
A More Personal Cloud This last weekend, I got a bug to redo my personal infrastructure. I was thinking that I needed to have a home for all my data on stuff I owned, rather than just on all the various cloud services I used. I figured that this was as good of time
musings New Beginnings I just turned 26. When that hit me, an internal alarm sounded. The "if you want to do something big/risky/major, do it in the next few years" klaxxon was ringing. I've been slowly moving out of pure development, which I have been doing for
ios Switching Sides This Post was originally written back in August of 2013. I decided to save when when I purged my blog. I have recently made a major life change: I left the halo of Apple, and moved back to the halo of Google. These days, you are not just picking a
Pros and Cons of Vim I am not going to write a "review" on Vim, because it is 50 years old. This is going to be the things I like, the things I dont like, and the things that are still giving me trouble. Pros: * I can carry over many of the same
twilio What I Built: Twilio SMS Platform, with WP integration As many of you know, I compeated in the Overnight Website Challenge, put on by the fine people of The Nerdery. During this event, I spent 24 hours with the rest of my team (hell yeah Full Court WordPress) compleatly redoing a website for our nonprofit, Project 515. While the
apple Ubiquity & Continuity Note: This was originaly written in March of 2011. With the recent announcement of Apple's Continuity framework, it seemed especially relevant. Last week, I have been conducted a test. I wanted to see how minimal I could go with my kit, and how much of my life I
