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Recently I've started writing short stories and I've been thinking it would be fun to post them online somewhere. As it turns out, I've got the perfect place: right here! I've added a new area on the site to showcase the stories I've written. Tales from the Whateverthing can be found at the Short Stories link in the sidebar.

This also gives me a chance to demonstrate Sculpin 3's helpful new command for creating custom content types. This post will share some details about the initial command line parameters, as well as what went into customizing the skeleton files that were created.

First, we'll run /vendor/bin/sculpin help content:create to show the help screen for the new command.

Several months ago, I blogged about porting Silex web apps to the Slim Framework. I recently went through the same process for a slightly more complex site (NAMR.xyz). This exposed a few areas that were missed in the previous post.

Functional test cases, service providers, and error handlers are among the things that Slim does differently than Silex. Here's my approach for moving things over.

In preparation for the release of Sculpin 3 (the upcoming version of the static site generator that runs this blog and many others), I recently spent some time exploring how to tests for PHP projects on non-Linux operating systems using TravisCI.

I realized while working on the upcoming release that I was always running the app under OS X but the CI tests were always running under Linux. This was not ideal for a tool that was intended to run on any OS.

A few weeks ago, I was having a conversation with Chris Hartjes (aka The Grumpy Programmer) about unfinished hobby projects. His advice got me thinking about how many projects I've got "on the go", and how they often go completely forgotten for months at a time.

I wrote a list of all the ones I can remember. I even included some ones that I "cancelled" or closed down, because I still sometimes think about bringing them back.

When I was finished, the list had 27 items.

This post is about Hobby Project 13. And there's video.