Archive
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Simple sites and HTML energy
Start something small and let it grow.
websites
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NewwwYear Itches
A few things I’d like to do with my site in 2023.
redesign
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Books finished in 2022
I finished 4,310 pages and 15 books.
books
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Giving Tuesday
This holiday season, be generous. Radically.
personal
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Mastodon servers
Finding my way into the fediverse.
websites
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Never
Never say never. These are some things I have not done.
personal
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Earth tones
A new color scheme and a little CSS refactor spurred on by using dark mode.
redesign
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These webfonts do not track you
Self-hosting web typography for privacy and performance enhancements.
redesign
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Adding an accessibility statement
An important new feature to this site.
redesign
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Ditch Twitter. And Instagram. And Goodreads.
Making social media work for me (not the billionaires).
websites
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Lullabies
I’m a dad!
personal
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Books finished in 2021
I finished 7,449 pages and 20 books.
books
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Boone
Goodbye, Dad.
personal
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Now with dark mode
Adding a new feature to this site’s design.
redesign
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Commonplace books, gardens, and streams
An antique concept gets a digital upgrade.
websites
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My six favorite utility classes
Bits of CSS I re-use in almost every project.
redesign
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Gridlessness and modern CSS
There’s never been a better time to learn (or re-learn) CSS.
learning
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Learn JavaScript with Morten Rand-Hendriksen
Learn the web’s scripting language in 10 chapters.
learning
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An engine, a building, a garden
Thoughts on personal websites, including this one.
redesign
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Accessibility and Performance
A few handy code snippets and more.
redesign
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Design Justice Principles
Thinking about co-creation as a force for good.
design
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Cedric Johnson on Public Goods and Inequality
Beyond slogans and cynicism. Identifying complexity and contradiction.
scholars
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Books finished in 2020
I finished 12,237 pages and 39 books.
books
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Scaffolding
Setting up a structure for the cascade.
redesign
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Web fonts and base HTML
My rationale for these new fonts, plus a poor man’s style guide.
redesign
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Learn HTML with Jen Simmons
In less time than an “Avengers” movie, you can learn the fundamental language of the web.
learning
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Ready for a Newww Year
Thinking and planning an open redesign.
redesign
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MMXX
Surviving, not thriving in the plague year.
personal
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Books finished in 2019
I finished 7,122 pages and 22 books.
books
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Books finished in 2018
I finished 14,345 pages and 44 books.
books
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Books finished in 2017
I finished 12,457 pages and 39 books.
books
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Books finished in 2016
I finished 5,323 pages and 17 books.
books
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JavaScript is not your interface.
My review of Adaptive Web Design by Aaron Gustafson.
books
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Many best practices
There’s more than one way to skin a website.
design
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Becoming an everyday developer
What to learn, how to learn it, and what to learn next.
learning
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Everyday developers
On specialization, generalization, and being no stranger to change.
design
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Reading is hazardous
Mary Ruefle’s writing is a blow to the skull and a balm to the soul.
books
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Collaborating on the new Tumbleweeds site
Communication, prototyping, and tools to build a simple, beautiful site that works everywhere.
process
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Deploy
An obligatory first blog post.
personal