2019
- Good Things
- Designing and Engineering for Progressive Disclosure
- On The Web, Yesterday’s Questions Are Answered in Today’s Platform APIs
- JSX-Like Syntax for Tagged Template Literals in JavaScript
- Dynamically Darken a Color in CSS
- Leveraging Regexes and Git to Find/Replace Dates in Markdown Files
- Saying No
- Reading Notes, June 2019
- Notes on “Rethinking Asynchronous Programming in JavaScript” by Kyle Simpson
- How to Create a macOS Menu Bar App for Netlify
- Reading Notes, May 2019
- Your Product Doesn’t Have to Look the Same On Every Platform
- Applying Multiple Background Colors with CSS
- Using @import in CSS to Conditionally Load Syntax Highlighting Styles in Dark Mode
- Thoughts on Jeremy Keith’s “Split”
- Moving from EJS to JSX
- Down the Rabbit Hole of Image Optimization Tooling
- Reading Notes, March 2019
- Improving Server-Side Rendering with React
- One-Press Deploys: Triggering a Build in Netlify via an Amazon IoT Button
- The Power of Prototypes in the Creative Process
- Book Notes: “Creative Selection” by Ken Kocienda
- Reading Notes, February 2019
- Generating Shades of Color Using CSS Variables
- Reading Notes, January 2019
- How Apple Engineers Decided the App Icon Size for the Original iPhone
- Building a Progressively-Enhanced Site
- Designing the “Quick Quote” Experience in Agent Portal
- Conditionally Load Material Icons
- The Difference Between substring and substr in JavaScript
2018
- Personal Observations on “CSS and Network Performance” by Harry Roberts
- Bringing “Dark Mode” to My Icon Galleries Sites
- Reading Notes, December 2018
- Supporting CSS Variables in Sass
- Book Notes: “The Pun Also Rises” by John Pollack
- Reading Notes, November 2018
- Triggering a Deploy in Netlify With Bookmarklets
- Migrating from Pathnames to Subdomains for jim-nielsen.com
- Reading Notes, October 2018
- Dark Mode on the Web via OS-Level Preferences
- Netlibox: My Guest Post on Netlify’s Blog
- Reading Notes, September 2018
- Reading Notes, August 2018
- My Little Cabin in the Woods of Logo Integrity
- Choosing a Static Site Generator
- Reading Notes, July 2018
- Reading Notes, June 2018
- Detective Work for the App Icon Book
- Blog Redesign: Out with the Old, in with the Old
- Reading Notes, May 2018
- A Short Perspective on Hiring
- Installing and Building an NPM Package from Github
- Writing as a Process for Iterative Problem Solving (and Thoughts on Structuring a Small Redux Project)
- Reading Notes, March 2018
- URL Design and Automated Redirects in Jekyll
- Reading Notes, January 2018
2017
- Creating iOS Icon Masks in the Browser
- The Value of Visual Design
- Reading Notes, October 2017
- The World Wide Web of People at My Disposal
- Limitations in Software
- I Liked this Podcast
- Designing and Engineering Event Management for Timshel’s “Admin” Web Application
- Notes on “Functional Lite Javascript” by Kyle Simpson
- Notes from Fluent Conference
- Reading Notes, June 2017
- Reading Notes, May 2017
- Designing Integrations for the Admin Application at Timshel
- Stop Using the Term “Pixel Perfect”, Start Focusing on Experiences
- Reading Notes, April 2017
- The Analog Web
- Designing Cross-Application Login Screens (and Business Relationships)
- Reading Notes, January 2017
- The Art of the Side Project
- Migrating Away from Compass and Susy to Sass Exclusively
- Designing and Engineering Color Usage in Agent Portal
2016
- Redesigning and Engineering the UI/UX for Unauthenticated Users of Timshel’s “Admin”
- Text as UI
- Reading Notes, November 2016
- Reading Notes, October 2016
- SassMe v2.0
- Reading Notes, September 2016
- Reading Notes, July 2016
- Paul Rand on Logos
- Arc90 “Work” Page Design Updates
- Designing and Developing the DCP Application
- Going the Extra Mile with Tasks and Feature Requests
- Designing and Building the Assignment Desk Application
2015
- Innovation Sales Sheet
- Assignment Desk Logo
- Reading Notes, December 2015
- Reading Notes, November 2015
- One Algorithm to Rule Them All
- Reading Notes, September 2015
- Kindling Marketing Site 2.0
- Reading Notes, August 2015
- Designing Kindling’s Pricing Page
- A Web of People
- Skinning the Idea Poster Anew
- Conceiving Blog Post Artwork
- Everything But Visual Design
- Team Colors 2.0
2014
- Words Have Meaning: Creating the “Let’s Talk Innovation” Page
- Designing a Successful Transaction Receipt
- Creating Apple Touch Icons
- Kindling Rubber Stamp
- Logo Integrity Brought into Focus
- Defining Beauty on the Web
- A Logo Is an Image, The Image of a Company
2013
- Benjamin Franklin, an Open Source Contributor?
- The Evolution of Creativity
- Wireframes and Gravity
- Ostentatious Design & Profanity
- The “Kinda-Sorta Looks Like the Internet” Internet
- Home Page Redesign of kindlingapp.com
- Automating Feelings
- Once Again, It’s About Putting the User First
- Workarounds to Variable Interpolation in Sass
- Things to Be Informed About in Life
- Preserving CSS Comments For Wordpress During Sass Compression
- Thoughts from “On Writing Well”
- Retrieving Recent Posts from Scriptogram in JSON Format Using PHP
- When Advertising Became About the Buyer, Not the Product
- Seemly Selectors
- Changes to max_upload_filesize not working in php.ini? Restart Apache!
- Scriptogram Logo in Vector Form (.svg)
- Stop Direct Spam Comments in Wordpress
- The Incredible (Frustrating) Potential of Google Glass
- Why Do We Sketch?
- An Analysis of Infinte Scrolling
- Unintended Visual Relationships
- Coming to Appreciate Art
- Team Color Codes
- Freebie Resources - Don’t Assume, Double Check
- Modularize Your PSDs by Embedding Them Inside Each Other
- Quick Change and the Web
- Miscellaneous Unicode Symbols, Font Stacks, and You
- Science Speaks: Good Typography = Good Mood