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• 2020 (62)
• 2019 (45)
• 2018 (26)
• 2017 (20)
• 2016 (12)
• 2015 (14)
• 2014 (7)
• 2013 (29)
• 2012 (5)

2020 (62)

• Reading Notes, November Nov 30
• Leveraging System Fonts on the Web Nov 23
• The Organic Web Nov 17
• React Without Build Tools Nov 11
• Reading Notes, October 2020 Oct 28
• Book Notes: “Demand Side Sales” by Bob Moesta Oct 21
• Ten Anti-Principles of Good Design Oct 19
• Exporting to HTML from JavaScript Using Blob URLs Oct 15
• Approaches to Using autosize.js to Automatically Resize a textarea on User Input Oct 12
• Cheating Entropy with Native Web Technologies Oct 8
• Reading Notes, September 2020 Sep 28
• Indexing My Blog’s Links Sep 22
• The Economics of the Front-End Sep 21
• Reading Notes, August 2020 Aug 31
• ES Modules: There is No Registry Aug 31
• Deploying a (Wannbe) Monorepo in Netlify Aug 25
• Make Me Think Aug 24
• The Predispositions of Inexperienced Talent Aug 20
• Growth, Creativity, and You Aug 18
• Web Technologies and Syntax Aug 10
• Remote Work is a Craft Aug 7
• The Resiliency of the Internet Aug 4
• Webster’s Dictionary Defines “View Source” As... Aug 3
• Reading Notes, July 2020 Jul 29
• Book Notes: “Coders” by Clive Thompson Jul 27
• Comparing Data in Google and Netlify Analytics Jul 23
• Any Day Can Be CSS Naked Day Jul 21
• Email Replies in Feeds Jul 20
• Book Notes: “Martin Luther King, Jr.” by Marshall Frady Jul 17
• Letter Case on the Web Jul 16
• Git Info in Node for a Babel Config Jul 15
• Import ES Modules from Github Jul 13
• The Web as an Information System Jul 6
• Reading Notes, June 2020 Jun 30
• Sass Color Functions in CSS May 30
• Don’t Forget the color-scheme Property May 29
• Reading Notes, May 2020 May 28
• Notes on “The Ugly Truth about Design Systems” by Mark Boulton May 27
• Thoughts on Designing a UI Driven By User-Controlled, System-Level Preferences May 18
• Musings on the Documentary “For Everyone” May 12
• Downloading and Uploading Text Files Using the Dropbox JavaScript SDK May 7
• Reading Notes, April 2020 Apr 30
• Perception and Balancing Idealism with Pragmatism Apr 13
• Visual Design Inspiration from Agency Websites–And Other Tangential Observations Apr 2
• Reading Notes, March 2020 Mar 30
• Writing vs. Coding Mar 23
• Credentials in URLs Mar 20
• Empowering the Few Mar 18
• Using Netlify Analytics to Build a List of Popular Posts Mar 16
• Design Systems and Airplanes Mar 11
• Switching from CJS to ES Modules Mar 9
• Progressively Enhancing a Small Widget Mar 5
• 50 Blog Posts in 2020 Mar 2
• Software and Home Renovation Feb 25
• The Spirit of “View Source” Feb 24
• Reading Notes, February 2020 Feb 21
• Programming Pairs Well With Other Disciplines Feb 13
• Texting is Cerebral Feb 6
• Using PropTypes Outside of React in Template Literal Components Jan 27
• Static Site Templating: Switching from React & JSX to JavaScript & Template Literals Jan 27
• Reading Notes, January 2020 Jan 24
• Follow Your Values, Not Your Passions Jan 14

2019 (45)

• Reading Notes, December 2019 Dec 30
• Twitter Cards and Visually Representing That I’ve Got Stuff To Say Dec 20
• A Node.js Helper Function for Accessing the CommonJS Equivalent of __dirname in ES Modules. Dec 20
• Netlify Public Folder, Part III: How? The Winding Road to Making a Local Folder Sync to Netlify’s Global CDN Dec 4
• Netlify Public Folder, Part II: Why? Netlify Large Media Wasn’t For Me, But Netlify Still Was Dec 4
• Netlify Public Folder, Part I: What? Recreating the Dropbox Public Folder With Netlify Dec 4
• Reading Notes, November 2019 Nov 25
• ECMAScript Modules in Node: My Own Personal Rabbit Hole Nov 25
• Reading Notes, October 2019 Oct 28
• Book Notes: A Mathematician’s Lament Oct 21
• My Favorite RSS Feeds Sep 16
• Design Principles Applied to the SF Fonts Sep 5
• Thoughts on Rich Harris’ “Metaphysics and JavaScript” Sep 3
• Dealing With Uncertainty in Art...and Life Aug 30
• Reading Notes, August 2019 Aug 27
• Good Things Aug 13
• Designing and Engineering for Progressive Disclosure Aug 12
• On The Web, Yesterday’s Questions Are Answered in Today’s Platform APIs Jul 27
• JSX-Like Syntax for Tagged Template Literals in JavaScript Jul 16
• Dynamically Darken a Color in CSS Jul 12
• Leveraging Regexes and Git to Find/Replace Dates in Markdown Files Jul 10
• Saying No Jul 3
• Reading Notes, June 2019 Jun 30
• Notes on “Rethinking Asynchronous Programming in JavaScript” by Kyle Simpson Jun 24
• How to Create a macOS Menu Bar App for Netlify Jun 19
• Reading Notes, May 2019 May 28
• Your Product Doesn’t Have to Look the Same On Every Platform Apr 29
• Applying Multiple Background Colors with CSS Apr 18
• Using @import in CSS to Conditionally Load Syntax Highlighting Styles in Dark Mode Apr 16
• Thoughts on Jeremy Keith’s “Split” Apr 10
• Moving from EJS to JSX Apr 1
• Down the Rabbit Hole of Image Optimization Tooling Mar 27
• Reading Notes, March 2019 Mar 26
• Improving Server-Side Rendering with React Mar 18
• One-Press Deploys: Triggering a Build in Netlify via an Amazon IoT Button Mar 11
• The Power of Prototypes in the Creative Process Mar 6
• Book Notes: “Creative Selection” by Ken Kocienda Mar 6
• Reading Notes, February 2019 Feb 28
• Generating Shades of Color Using CSS Variables Jan 31
• Reading Notes, January 2019 Jan 30
• How Apple Engineers Decided the App Icon Size for the Original iPhone Jan 29
• Building a Progressively-Enhanced Site Jan 17
• Designing the “Quick Quote” Experience in Agent Portal Jan 8
• Conditionally Load Material Icons Jan 7
• The Difference Between substring and substr in JavaScript Jan 4

2018 (26)

• Personal Observations on “CSS and Network Performance” by Harry Roberts Dec 29
• Bringing “Dark Mode” to My Icon Galleries Sites Dec 28
• Reading Notes, December 2018 Dec 27
• Supporting CSS Variables in Sass Dec 18
• Book Notes: “The Pun Also Rises” by John Pollack Dec 8
• Reading Notes, November 2018 Nov 26
• Triggering a Deploy in Netlify With Bookmarklets Nov 21
• Migrating from Pathnames to Subdomains for jim-nielsen.com Nov 14
• Reading Notes, October 2018 Oct 29
• Dark Mode on the Web via OS-Level Preferences Oct 25
• Netlibox: My Guest Post on Netlify’s Blog Oct 16
• Reading Notes, September 2018 Sep 30
• Reading Notes, August 2018 Aug 24
• My Little Cabin in the Woods of Logo Integrity Aug 9
• Choosing a Static Site Generator Aug 2
• Reading Notes, July 2018 Jul 28
• Reading Notes, June 2018 Jun 25
• Detective Work for the App Icon Book Jun 19
• Blog Redesign: Out with the Old, in with the Old May 22
• Reading Notes, May 2018 May 4
• A Short Perspective on Hiring Apr 13
• Installing and Building an NPM Package from Github Apr 10
• Writing as a Process for Iterative Problem Solving (and Thoughts on Structuring a Small Redux Project) Mar 23
• Reading Notes, March 2018 Mar 13
• URL Design and Automated Redirects in Jekyll Feb 23
• Reading Notes, January 2018 Jan 5

2017 (20)

• Creating iOS Icon Masks in the Browser Nov 27
• The Value of Visual Design Nov 4
• Reading Notes, October 2017 Oct 28
• The World Wide Web of People at My Disposal Oct 2
• Limitations in Software Aug 26
• I Liked this Podcast Aug 16
• Designing and Engineering Event Management for Timshel’s “Admin” Web Application Aug 11
• Notes on “Functional Lite Javascript” by Kyle Simpson Jul 3
• Notes from Fluent Conference Jun 28
• Reading Notes, June 2017 Jun 22
• Reading Notes, May 2017 May 9
• Designing Integrations for the Admin Application at Timshel Apr 19
• Stop Using the Term “Pixel Perfect”, Start Focusing on Experiences Apr 17
• Reading Notes, April 2017 Apr 7
• The Analog Web Mar 27
• Designing Cross-Application Login Screens (and Business Relationships) Mar 8
• Reading Notes, January 2017 Jan 31
• The Art of the Side Project Jan 17
• Migrating Away from Compass and Susy to Sass Exclusively Jan 11
• Designing and Engineering Color Usage in Agent Portal Jan 6

2016 (12)

• Redesigning and Engineering the UI/UX for Unauthenticated Users of Timshel’s “Admin” Dec 9
• Text as UI Nov 24
• Reading Notes, November 2016 Nov 18
• Reading Notes, October 2016 Oct 1
• SassMe v2.0 Sep 27
• Reading Notes, September 2016 Sep 8
• Reading Notes, July 2016 Aug 8
• Paul Rand on Logos Jul 11
• Arc90 “Work” Page Design Updates Jul 9
• Designing and Developing the DCP Application May 17
• Going the Extra Mile with Tasks and Feature Requests Mar 2
• Designing and Building the Assignment Desk Application Jan 28

2015 (14)

• Innovation Sales Sheet Dec 30
• Assignment Desk Logo Dec 3
• Reading Notes, December 2015 Dec 1
• Reading Notes, November 2015 Nov 2
• One Algorithm to Rule Them All Oct 17
• Reading Notes, September 2015 Oct 5
• Kindling Marketing Site 2.0 Sep 11
• Reading Notes, August 2015 Aug 31
• Designing Kindling’s Pricing Page Aug 26
• A Web of People Jun 29
• Skinning the Idea Poster Anew May 20
• Conceiving Blog Post Artwork May 4
• Everything But Visual Design Feb 5
• Team Colors 2.0 Jan 16

2014 (7)

• Words Have Meaning: Creating the “Let’s Talk Innovation” Page Nov 19
• Designing a Successful Transaction Receipt Nov 4
• Creating Apple Touch Icons Oct 28
• Kindling Rubber Stamp Oct 23
• Logo Integrity Brought into Focus Sep 2
• Defining Beauty on the Web Mar 11
• A Logo Is an Image, The Image of a Company Mar 3

2013 (29)

• Benjamin Franklin, an Open Source Contributor? Dec 18
• The Evolution of Creativity Nov 6
• Wireframes and Gravity Oct 21
• Ostentatious Design & Profanity Oct 14
• The “Kinda-Sorta Looks Like the Internet” Internet Sep 26
• Home Page Redesign of kindlingapp.com Sep 26
• Automating Feelings Sep 23
• Once Again, It’s About Putting the User First Aug 12
• Workarounds to Variable Interpolation in Sass Jul 29
• Things to Be Informed About in Life Jul 24
• Preserving CSS Comments For Wordpress During Sass Compression Jul 22
• Thoughts from “On Writing Well” Jul 15
• Retrieving Recent Posts from Scriptogram in JSON Format Using PHP Jul 8
• When Advertising Became About the Buyer, Not the Product Jun 27
• Seemly Selectors Jun 11
• Changes to max_upload_filesize not working in php.ini? Restart Apache! Jun 10
• Scriptogram Logo in Vector Form (.svg) May 29
• Stop Direct Spam Comments in Wordpress May 22
• The Incredible (Frustrating) Potential of Google Glass May 17
• Why Do We Sketch? May 15
• An Analysis of Infinte Scrolling May 5
• Unintended Visual Relationships Mar 26
• Coming to Appreciate Art Mar 8
• Team Color Codes Feb 19
• Freebie Resources - Don’t Assume, Double Check Feb 12
• Modularize Your PSDs by Embedding Them Inside Each Other Jan 31
• Quick Change and the Web Jan 29
• Miscellaneous Unicode Symbols, Font Stacks, and You Jan 21
• Science Speaks: Good Typography = Good Mood Jan 8

2012 (5)

• Said No Normal User, Ever. Dec 12
• Calculate the Border Radius for iOS-Style Icons Using a Simple Ratio Dec 11
• Reading Notes, November 2012 Dec 4
• Safari 6 Tab Preview: Show Me More! (In Quantity, Not Size) Nov 30
• Understanding Comes in Stages Nov 28