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#bookNotes (4)
#design (2)
#designProcess (30)
#engineering (42)
#generalNotes (3)
#insight (6)
#readingNotes (31)
#stories (2)
#thoughts (38)
#tips (12)
#workNotes (2)

#bookNotes (4)

Book Notes: A Mathematician’s Lament Oct 21, 2019
Dealing With Uncertainty in Art...and Life Aug 30, 2019
Book Notes: “Creative Selection” by Ken Kocienda Mar 6, 2019
Book Notes: “The Pun Also Rises” by John Pollack Dec 8, 2018

#design (2)

Design Principles Applied to the SF Fonts Sep 5, 2019
Designing and Engineering for Progressive Disclosure Aug 12, 2019

#designProcess (30)

Designing the “Quick Quote” Experience in Agent Portal Jan 8, 2019
Detective Work for the App Icon Book Jun 19, 2018
Blog Redesign: Out with the Old, in with the Old May 22, 2018
I Liked this Podcast Aug 16, 2017
Designing and Engineering Event Management for Timshel’s “Admin” Web Application Aug 11, 2017
Designing Integrations for the Admin Application at Timshel Apr 19, 2017
Designing Cross-Application Login Screens (and Business Relationships) Mar 8, 2017
Designing and Engineering Color Usage in Agent Portal Jan 6, 2017
Redesigning and Engineering the UI/UX for Unauthenticated Users of Timshel’s “Admin” Dec 9, 2016
Text as UI Nov 24, 2016
SassMe v2.0 Sep 27, 2016
Arc90 “Work” Page Design Updates Jul 9, 2016
Designing and Developing the DCP Application May 17, 2016
Going the Extra Mile with Tasks and Feature Requests Mar 2, 2016
Designing and Building the Assignment Desk Application Jan 28, 2016
Innovation Sales Sheet Dec 30, 2015
Assignment Desk Logo Dec 3, 2015
Kindling Marketing Site 2.0 Sep 11, 2015
Designing Kindling’s Pricing Page Aug 26, 2015
Skinning the Idea Poster Anew May 20, 2015
Conceiving Blog Post Artwork May 4, 2015
Everything But Visual Design Feb 5, 2015
Team Colors 2.0 Jan 16, 2015
Words Have Meaning: Creating the “Let’s Talk Innovation” Page Nov 19, 2014
Designing a Successful Transaction Receipt Nov 4, 2014
Creating Apple Touch Icons Oct 28, 2014
Kindling Rubber Stamp Oct 23, 2014
Logo Integrity Brought into Focus Sep 2, 2014
Home Page Redesign of kindlingapp.com Sep 26, 2013
Team Color Codes Feb 19, 2013

#engineering (42)

Design Principles Applied to the SF Fonts Sep 5, 2019
Designing and Engineering for Progressive Disclosure Aug 12, 2019
JSX-Like Syntax for Tagged Template Literals in JavaScript Jul 16, 2019
Dynamically Darken a Color in CSS Jul 12, 2019
Leveraging Regexes and Git to Find/Replace Dates in Markdown Files Jul 10, 2019
How to Create a macOS Menu Bar App for Netlify Jun 19, 2019
Applying Multiple Background Colors with CSS Apr 18, 2019
Using @import in CSS to Conditionally Load Syntax Highlighting Styles in Dark Mode Apr 16, 2019
Thoughts on Jeremy Keith’s “Split” Apr 10, 2019
Moving from EJS to JSX Apr 1, 2019
Down the Rabbit Hole of Image Optimization Tooling Mar 27, 2019
Improving Server-Side Rendering with React Mar 18, 2019
One-Press Deploys: Triggering a Build in Netlify via an Amazon IoT Button Mar 11, 2019
Generating Shades of Color Using CSS Variables Jan 31, 2019
Building a Progressively-Enhanced Site Jan 17, 2019
Conditionally Load Material Icons Jan 7, 2019
The Difference Between substring and substr in JavaScript Jan 4, 2019
Personal Observations on “CSS and Network Performance” by Harry Roberts Dec 29, 2018
Bringing “Dark Mode” to My Icon Galleries Sites Dec 28, 2018
Supporting CSS Variables in Sass Dec 18, 2018
Triggering a Deploy in Netlify With Bookmarklets Nov 21, 2018
Migrating from Pathnames to Subdomains for jim-nielsen.com Nov 14, 2018
Dark Mode on the Web via OS-Level Preferences Oct 25, 2018
Netlibox: My Guest Post on Netlify’s Blog Oct 16, 2018
Choosing a Static Site Generator Aug 2, 2018
Installing and Building an NPM Package from Github Apr 10, 2018
Writing as a Process for Iterative Problem Solving (and Thoughts on Structuring a Small Redux Project) Mar 23, 2018
URL Design and Automated Redirects in Jekyll Feb 23, 2018
Creating iOS Icon Masks in the Browser Nov 27, 2017
Migrating Away from Compass and Susy to Sass Exclusively Jan 11, 2017
Designing and Engineering Color Usage in Agent Portal Jan 6, 2017
Redesigning and Engineering the UI/UX for Unauthenticated Users of Timshel’s “Admin” Dec 9, 2016
SassMe v2.0 Sep 27, 2016
Designing and Developing the DCP Application May 17, 2016
Designing and Building the Assignment Desk Application Jan 28, 2016
Kindling Marketing Site 2.0 Sep 11, 2015
Team Colors 2.0 Jan 16, 2015
Logo Integrity Brought into Focus Sep 2, 2014
Workarounds to Variable Interpolation in Sass Jul 29, 2013
Preserving CSS Comments For Wordpress During Sass Compression Jul 22, 2013
Retrieving Recent Posts from Scriptogram in JSON Format Using PHP Jul 8, 2013
Calculate the Border Radius for iOS-Style Icons Using a Simple Ratio Dec 11, 2012

#generalNotes (3)

Notes on “Rethinking Asynchronous Programming in JavaScript” by Kyle Simpson Jun 24, 2019
Notes on “Functional Lite Javascript” by Kyle Simpson Jul 3, 2017
Notes from Fluent Conference Jun 28, 2017

#insight (6)

Designing the “Quick Quote” Experience in Agent Portal Jan 8, 2019
Writing as a Process for Iterative Problem Solving (and Thoughts on Structuring a Small Redux Project) Mar 23, 2018
Designing Cross-Application Login Screens (and Business Relationships) Mar 8, 2017
Migrating Away from Compass and Susy to Sass Exclusively Jan 11, 2017
Designing and Engineering Color Usage in Agent Portal Jan 6, 2017
Text as UI Nov 24, 2016

#readingNotes (31)

Reading Notes, October 2019 Oct 28, 2019
Reading Notes, August 2019 Aug 27, 2019
Reading Notes, June 2019 Jun 30, 2019
Reading Notes, May 2019 May 28, 2019
Reading Notes, March 2019 Mar 26, 2019
Reading Notes, February 2019 Feb 28, 2019
Reading Notes, January 2019 Jan 30, 2019
Reading Notes, December 2018 Dec 27, 2018
Reading Notes, November 2018 Nov 26, 2018
Reading Notes, October 2018 Oct 29, 2018
Reading Notes, September 2018 Sep 30, 2018
Reading Notes, August 2018 Aug 24, 2018
Reading Notes, July 2018 Jul 28, 2018
Reading Notes, June 2018 Jun 25, 2018
Reading Notes, May 2018 May 4, 2018
Reading Notes, March 2018 Mar 13, 2018
Reading Notes, January 2018 Jan 5, 2018
Reading Notes, October 2017 Oct 28, 2017
Reading Notes, June 2017 Jun 22, 2017
Reading Notes, May 2017 May 9, 2017
Reading Notes, April 2017 Apr 7, 2017
Reading Notes, January 2017 Jan 31, 2017
Reading Notes, November 2016 Nov 18, 2016
Reading Notes, October 2016 Oct 1, 2016
Reading Notes, September 2016 Sep 8, 2016
Reading Notes, July 2016 Aug 8, 2016
Reading Notes, December 2015 Dec 1, 2015
Reading Notes, November 2015 Nov 2, 2015
Reading Notes, September 2015 Oct 5, 2015
Reading Notes, August 2015 Aug 31, 2015
Reading Notes, November 2012 Dec 4, 2012

#stories (2)

How Apple Engineers Decided the App Icon Size for the Original iPhone Jan 29, 2019
My Little Cabin in the Woods of Logo Integrity Aug 9, 2018

#thoughts (38)

My Favorite RSS Feeds Sep 16, 2019
Thoughts on Rich Harris’ “Metaphysics and JavaScript” Sep 3, 2019
Dealing With Uncertainty in Art...and Life Aug 30, 2019
Good Things Aug 13, 2019
Saying No Jul 3, 2019
Your Product Doesn’t Have to Look the Same On Every Platform Apr 29, 2019
Thoughts on Jeremy Keith’s “Split” Apr 10, 2019
The Power of Prototypes in the Creative Process Mar 6, 2019
A Short Perspective on Hiring Apr 13, 2018
The Value of Visual Design Nov 4, 2017
The World Wide Web of People at My Disposal Oct 2, 2017
Limitations in Software Aug 26, 2017
Stop Using the Term “Pixel Perfect”, Start Focusing on Experiences Apr 17, 2017
The Analog Web Mar 27, 2017
The Art of the Side Project Jan 17, 2017
Paul Rand on Logos Jul 11, 2016
One Algorithm to Rule Them All Oct 17, 2015
A Web of People Jun 29, 2015
Defining Beauty on the Web Mar 11, 2014
A Logo Is an Image, The Image of a Company Mar 3, 2014
Benjamin Franklin, an Open Source Contributor? Dec 18, 2013
The Evolution of Creativity Nov 6, 2013
Wireframes and Gravity Oct 21, 2013
Ostentatious Design & Profanity Oct 14, 2013
The “Kinda-Sorta Looks Like the Internet” Internet Sep 26, 2013
Automating Feelings Sep 23, 2013
Once Again, It’s About Putting the User First Aug 12, 2013
Workarounds to Variable Interpolation in Sass Jul 29, 2013
Things to Be Informed About in Life Jul 24, 2013
Thoughts from “On Writing Well” Jul 15, 2013
When Advertising Became About the Buyer, Not the Product Jun 27, 2013
The Incredible (Frustrating) Potential of Google Glass May 17, 2013
An Analysis of Infinte Scrolling May 5, 2013
Coming to Appreciate Art Mar 8, 2013
Quick Change and the Web Jan 29, 2013
Science Speaks: Good Typography = Good Mood Jan 8, 2013
Said No Normal User, Ever. Dec 12, 2012
Understanding Comes in Stages Nov 28, 2012

#tips (12)

Creating iOS Icon Masks in the Browser Nov 27, 2017
Going the Extra Mile with Tasks and Feature Requests Mar 2, 2016
Thoughts from “On Writing Well” Jul 15, 2013
Seemly Selectors Jun 11, 2013
Changes to max_upload_filesize not working in php.ini? Restart Apache! Jun 10, 2013
Stop Direct Spam Comments in Wordpress May 22, 2013
Why Do We Sketch? May 15, 2013
Unintended Visual Relationships Mar 26, 2013
Freebie Resources - Don’t Assume, Double Check Feb 12, 2013
Modularize Your PSDs by Embedding Them Inside Each Other Jan 31, 2013
Miscellaneous Unicode Symbols, Font Stacks, and You Jan 21, 2013
Calculate the Border Radius for iOS-Style Icons Using a Simple Ratio Dec 11, 2012

#workNotes (2)

Conditionally Load Material Icons Jan 7, 2019
The Difference Between substring and substr in JavaScript Jan 4, 2019