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2021 (40)

• Font Size and Control 06-22
• The Unseen Work of Design 06-17
• Displaying Favicons For Any Domain 06-14
• CSS System Colors 06-03
• Reflections on HTML 06-01
• Reading Notes, May 2021 05-28
• Useful and Useless Code Comments 05-19
• Designing Between the Lines 05-17
• Making Your RSS Feeds Automatically Discoverable 05-12
• (Re)Introducing Readlists 05-10
• Shadow DOM and Its Effect on the Unofficial Styling API 05-02
• Reading Notes, April 2021 04-28
• Custom Elements Without JavaScript? 04-26
• Fetch and 3xx Redirect Status Codes 04-20
• This is the Internet Folks 04-15
• SVG Stroke Positioning, iOS Masks, and the Browser 04-12
• Reflecting on My Own Experience Using the Web to Get the Vaccine 04-09
• Giving Style to Select Option Values 04-07
• Web Languages as Compile Targets 04-05
• Reading Notes, March 2021 03-29
• A Collection of Reading Notes 03-25
• CSS Is, In Fact, Awesome 03-22
• A Simple Tactic For Progressively-Enhanced Search 03-17
• Speculative Prefetching 03-15
• Book Notes: “Let Your Life Speak” by Parker Palmer 03-02
• Sites v. Apps: A Reverie 03-01
• Reading Notes, February 2021 02-26
• Wisdom From the Forums: “The Gap Between Expectations and Reality” 02-24
• “Incomplete” Designs & Miscellaneous Thoughts 02-23
• Reverse Domain Name Notation 02-18
• Doing Web Design 02-16
• Judo Throw the Hype 02-08
• IKEA, JavaScript, and Assembling Things Yourself 02-06
• Codebase Collaboration Between Humans and Robots 02-02
• Graphing My Blog Post Goals 02-01
• Reading Notes, January 2021 01-28
• Favorite Excerpts from the Postlight Podcast 01-25
• Feat: New Style 01-20
• Custom Style Sheets in Safari 01-13
• Writing in 2020 and 2021 01-11

2020 (65)

• Reading Notes, December 2020 12-26
• Setup a CORS Proxy With Netlify 12-15
• The Missing Hit and the Open Web 12-09
• Reading Notes, November 2020 11-30
• Leveraging System Fonts on the Web 11-23
• The Organic Web 11-17
• React Without Build Tools 11-11
• Reading Notes, October 2020 10-28
• Book Notes: “Demand Side Sales” by Bob Moesta 10-21
• Ten Anti-Principles of Good Design 10-19
• Exporting to HTML from JavaScript Using Blob URLs 10-15
• Approaches to Using autosize.js to Automatically Resize a textarea on User Input 10-12
• Cheating Entropy with Native Web Technologies 10-08
• Reading Notes, September 2020 09-28
• Indexing My Blog’s Links 09-22
• The Economics of the Front-End 09-21
• Reading Notes, August 2020 08-31
• ES Modules: There is No Registry 08-31
• Deploying a (Wannbe) Monorepo in Netlify 08-25
• Make Me Think 08-24
• The Predispositions of Inexperienced Talent 08-20
• Growth, Creativity, and You 08-18
• Web Technologies and Syntax 08-10
• Remote Work is a Craft 08-07
• The Resiliency of the Internet 08-04
• Webster’s Dictionary Defines “View Source” As... 08-03
• Reading Notes, July 2020 07-29
• Book Notes: “Coders” by Clive Thompson 07-27
• Comparing Data in Google and Netlify Analytics 07-23
• Any Day Can Be CSS Naked Day 07-21
• Email Replies in Feeds 07-20
• Book Notes: “Martin Luther King, Jr.” by Marshall Frady 07-17
• Letter Case on the Web 07-16
• Git Info in Node for a Babel Config 07-15
• Import ES Modules from Github 07-13
• The Web as an Information System 07-06
• Reading Notes, June 2020 06-30
• Sass Color Functions in CSS 05-30
• Don’t Forget the color-scheme Property 05-29
• Reading Notes, May 2020 05-28
• Notes on “The Ugly Truth about Design Systems” by Mark Boulton 05-27
• Thoughts on Designing a UI Driven By User-Controlled, System-Level Preferences 05-18
• Musings on the Documentary “For Everyone” 05-12
• Downloading and Uploading Text Files Using the Dropbox JavaScript SDK 05-07
• Reading Notes, April 2020 04-30
• Perception and Balancing Idealism with Pragmatism 04-13
• Visual Design Inspiration from Agency Websites–And Other Tangential Observations 04-02
• Reading Notes, March 2020 03-30
• Writing vs. Coding 03-23
• Credentials in URLs 03-20
• Empowering the Few 03-18
• Using Netlify Analytics to Build a List of Popular Posts 03-16
• Design Systems and Airplanes 03-11
• Switching from CJS to ES Modules 03-09
• Progressively Enhancing a Small Widget 03-05
• 50 Blog Posts in 2020 03-02
• Software and Home Renovation 02-25
• The Spirit of “View Source” 02-24
• Reading Notes, February 2020 02-21
• Programming Pairs Well With Other Disciplines 02-13
• Texting is Cerebral 02-06
• Using PropTypes Outside of React in Template Literal Components 01-27
• Static Site Templating: Switching from React & JSX to JavaScript & Template Literals 01-27
• Reading Notes, January 2020 01-24
• Follow Your Values, Not Your Passions 01-14

2019 (45)

• Reading Notes, December 2019 12-30
• Twitter Cards and Visually Representing That I’ve Got Stuff To Say 12-20
• A Node.js Helper Function for Accessing the CommonJS Equivalent of __dirname in ES Modules. 12-20
• Netlify Public Folder, Part III: How? The Winding Road to Making a Local Folder Sync to Netlify’s Global CDN 12-04
• Netlify Public Folder, Part II: Why? Netlify Large Media Wasn’t For Me, But Netlify Still Was 12-04
• Netlify Public Folder, Part I: What? Recreating the Dropbox Public Folder With Netlify 12-04
• Reading Notes, November 2019 11-25
• ECMAScript Modules in Node: My Own Personal Rabbit Hole 11-25
• Reading Notes, October 2019 10-28
• Book Notes: A Mathematician’s Lament 10-21
• My Favorite RSS Feeds 09-16
• Design Principles Applied to the SF Fonts 09-05
• Thoughts on Rich Harris’ “Metaphysics and JavaScript” 09-03
• Dealing With Uncertainty in Art...and Life 08-30
• Reading Notes, August 2019 08-27
• Good Things 08-13
• Designing and Engineering for Progressive Disclosure 08-12
• On The Web, Yesterday’s Questions Are Answered in Today’s Platform APIs 07-27
• JSX-Like Syntax for Tagged Template Literals in JavaScript 07-16
• Dynamically Darken a Color in CSS 07-12
• Leveraging Regexes and Git to Find/Replace Dates in Markdown Files 07-10
• Saying No 07-03
• Reading Notes, June 2019 06-30
• Notes on “Rethinking Asynchronous Programming in JavaScript” by Kyle Simpson 06-24
• How to Create a macOS Menu Bar App for Netlify 06-19
• Reading Notes, May 2019 05-28
• Your Product Doesn’t Have to Look the Same On Every Platform 04-29
• Applying Multiple Background Colors with CSS 04-18
• Using @import in CSS to Conditionally Load Syntax Highlighting Styles in Dark Mode 04-16
• Thoughts on Jeremy Keith’s “Split” 04-10
• Moving from EJS to JSX 04-01
• Down the Rabbit Hole of Image Optimization Tooling 03-27
• Reading Notes, March 2019 03-26
• Improving Server-Side Rendering with React 03-18
• One-Press Deploys: Triggering a Build in Netlify via an Amazon IoT Button 03-11
• The Power of Prototypes in the Creative Process 03-06
• Book Notes: “Creative Selection” by Ken Kocienda 03-06
• Reading Notes, February 2019 02-28
• Generating Shades of Color Using CSS Variables 01-31
• Reading Notes, January 2019 01-30
• How Apple Engineers Decided the App Icon Size for the Original iPhone 01-29
• Building a Progressively-Enhanced Site 01-17
• Designing the “Quick Quote” Experience in Agent Portal 01-08
• Conditionally Load Material Icons 01-07
• The Difference Between substring and substr in JavaScript 01-04

2018 (26)

• Personal Observations on “CSS and Network Performance” by Harry Roberts 12-29
• Bringing “Dark Mode” to My Icon Galleries Sites 12-28
• Reading Notes, December 2018 12-27
• Supporting CSS Variables in Sass 12-18
• Book Notes: “The Pun Also Rises” by John Pollack 12-08
• Reading Notes, November 2018 11-26
• Triggering a Deploy in Netlify With Bookmarklets 11-21
• Migrating from Pathnames to Subdomains for jim-nielsen.com 11-14
• Reading Notes, October 2018 10-29
• Dark Mode on the Web via OS-Level Preferences 10-25
• Netlibox: My Guest Post on Netlify’s Blog 10-16
• Reading Notes, September 2018 09-30
• Reading Notes, August 2018 08-24
• My Little Cabin in the Woods of Logo Integrity 08-09
• Choosing a Static Site Generator 08-02
• Reading Notes, July 2018 07-28
• Reading Notes, June 2018 06-25
• Detective Work for the App Icon Book 06-19
• Blog Redesign: Out with the Old, in with the Old 05-22
• Reading Notes, May 2018 05-04
• A Short Perspective on Hiring 04-13
• Installing and Building an NPM Package from Github 04-10
• Writing as a Process for Iterative Problem Solving (and Thoughts on Structuring a Small Redux Project) 03-23
• Reading Notes, March 2018 03-13
• URL Design and Automated Redirects in Jekyll 02-23
• Reading Notes, January 2018 01-05

2017 (20)

• Creating iOS Icon Masks in the Browser 11-27
• The Value of Visual Design 11-04
• Reading Notes, October 2017 10-28
• The World Wide Web of People at My Disposal 10-02
• Limitations in Software 08-26
• I Liked this Podcast 08-16
• Designing and Engineering Event Management for Timshel’s “Admin” Web Application 08-11
• Notes on “Functional Lite Javascript” by Kyle Simpson 07-03
• Notes from Fluent Conference 06-28
• Reading Notes, June 2017 06-22
• Reading Notes, May 2017 05-09
• Designing Integrations for the Admin Application at Timshel 04-19
• Stop Using the Term “Pixel Perfect”, Start Focusing on Experiences 04-17
• Reading Notes, April 2017 04-07
• The Analog Web 03-27
• Designing Cross-Application Login Screens (and Business Relationships) 03-08
• Reading Notes, January 2017 01-31
• The Art of the Side Project 01-17
• Migrating Away from Compass and Susy to Sass Exclusively 01-11
• Designing and Engineering Color Usage in Agent Portal 01-06

2016 (12)

• Redesigning and Engineering the UI/UX for Unauthenticated Users of Timshel’s “Admin” 12-09
• Text as UI 11-24
• Reading Notes, November 2016 11-18
• Reading Notes, October 2016 10-01
• SassMe v2.0 09-27
• Reading Notes, September 2016 09-08
• Reading Notes, July 2016 08-08
• Paul Rand on Logos 07-11
• Arc90 “Work” Page Design Updates 07-09
• Designing and Developing the DCP Application 05-17
• Going the Extra Mile with Tasks and Feature Requests 03-02
• Designing and Building the Assignment Desk Application 01-28

2015 (14)

• Innovation Sales Sheet 12-30
• Assignment Desk Logo 12-03
• Reading Notes, December 2015 12-01
• Reading Notes, November 2015 11-02
• One Algorithm to Rule Them All 10-17
• Reading Notes, September 2015 10-05
• Kindling Marketing Site 2.0 09-11
• Reading Notes, August 2015 08-31
• Designing Kindling’s Pricing Page 08-26
• A Web of People 06-29
• Skinning the Idea Poster Anew 05-20
• Conceiving Blog Post Artwork 05-04
• Everything But Visual Design 02-05
• Team Colors 2.0 01-16

2014 (7)

• Words Have Meaning: Creating the “Let’s Talk Innovation” Page 11-19
• Designing a Successful Transaction Receipt 11-04
• Creating Apple Touch Icons 10-28
• Kindling Rubber Stamp 10-23
• Logo Integrity Brought into Focus 09-02
• Defining Beauty on the Web 03-11
• A Logo Is an Image, The Image of a Company 03-03

2013 (29)

• Benjamin Franklin, an Open Source Contributor? 12-18
• The Evolution of Creativity 11-06
• Wireframes and Gravity 10-21
• Ostentatious Design & Profanity 10-14
• The “Kinda-Sorta Looks Like the Internet” Internet 09-26
• Home Page Redesign of kindlingapp.com 09-26
• Automating Feelings 09-23
• Once Again, It’s About Putting the User First 08-12
• Workarounds to Variable Interpolation in Sass 07-29
• Things to Be Informed About in Life 07-24
• Preserving CSS Comments For Wordpress During Sass Compression 07-22
• Thoughts from “On Writing Well” 07-15
• Retrieving Recent Posts from Scriptogram in JSON Format Using PHP 07-08
• When Advertising Became About the Buyer, Not the Product 06-27
• Seemly Selectors 06-11
• Changes to max_upload_filesize not working in php.ini? Restart Apache! 06-10
• Scriptogram Logo in Vector Form (.svg) 05-29
• Stop Direct Spam Comments in Wordpress 05-22
• The Incredible (Frustrating) Potential of Google Glass 05-17
• Why Do We Sketch? 05-15
• An Analysis of Infinte Scrolling 05-05
• Unintended Visual Relationships 03-26
• Coming to Appreciate Art 03-08
• Team Color Codes 02-19
• Freebie Resources - Don’t Assume, Double Check 02-12
• Modularize Your PSDs by Embedding Them Inside Each Other 01-31
• Quick Change and the Web 01-29
• Miscellaneous Unicode Symbols, Font Stacks, and You 01-21
• Science Speaks: Good Typography = Good Mood 01-08

2012 (5)

• Said No Normal User, Ever. 12-12
• Calculate the Border Radius for iOS-Style Icons Using a Simple Ratio 12-11
• Reading Notes, November 2012 12-04
• Safari 6 Tab Preview: Show Me More! (In Quantity, Not Size) 11-30
• Understanding Comes in Stages 11-28