Working from home has become much more common over the past few years, even before the COVID-19 pandemic struck. But whereas doing so was a choice before, now it is mandatory for many office workers. Working from home can be a challenge, though. Yes, it’s great to work in your pajamas and not have to shave regularly, but it comes with some pitfass as well. In this article I will share some tips I’ve picked up from having spent half of my 25 year career working from home.
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Ai Sessions Adobe Illustrator JSX Extension
When I’m working on my icon designs, I often have 4-5 Adobe Illustrator documents open at a time during a work session. Since icon design involves creating large collections of tens, hundreds, or even thousands of icons, I have them broken up into multiple files but find I need to copy a lot of icons between files.
Google Spreadsheets – Auto-Assign Row ID
I was recently working on a simple Google Spreadsheet to log functional requirements for a WordPress Plugin I’m building. I wanted a simple way to assign feature IDs as I entered new rows. My feature numbering system follows the format {version-major}.{version-minor}.{feature-number}. For example “1.1.001” where 1.1 is the version major + minor number, and 001 is the feature number.
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