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#bookNotes (10)

Book Notes: “Demand Side Sales” by Bob Moesta 2020-10-21
The Predispositions of Inexperienced Talent 2020-08-20
Growth, Creativity, and You 2020-08-18
Book Notes: “Coders” by Clive Thompson 2020-07-27
Book Notes: “Martin Luther King, Jr.” by Marshall Frady 2020-07-17
Writing vs. Coding 2020-03-23
Book Notes: A Mathematician’s Lament 2019-10-21
Dealing With Uncertainty in Art...and Life 2019-08-30
Book Notes: “Creative Selection” by Ken Kocienda 2019-03-06
Book Notes: “The Pun Also Rises” by John Pollack 2018-12-08

#bookNotesBeethoven (2)

The Predispositions of Inexperienced Talent 2020-08-20
Growth, Creativity, and You 2020-08-18

#bookNotesCoders (2)

Book Notes: “Coders” by Clive Thompson 2020-07-27
Writing vs. Coding 2020-03-23

#css (10)

Custom Style Sheets in Safari 2021-01-13
Leveraging System Fonts on the Web 2020-11-23
Web Technologies and Syntax 2020-08-10
The Resiliency of the Internet 2020-08-04
Any Day Can Be CSS Naked Day 2020-07-21
Letter Case on the Web 2020-07-16
Sass Color Functions in CSS 2020-05-30
Don’t Forget the color-scheme Property 2020-05-29
Bringing “Dark Mode” to My Icon Galleries Sites 2018-12-28
Dark Mode on the Web via OS-Level Preferences 2018-10-25

#darkMode (4)

Don’t Forget the color-scheme Property 2020-05-29
Using @import in CSS to Conditionally Load Syntax Highlighting Styles in Dark Mode 2019-04-16
Bringing “Dark Mode” to My Icon Galleries Sites 2018-12-28
Dark Mode on the Web via OS-Level Preferences 2018-10-25

#design (5)

Notes on “The Ugly Truth about Design Systems” by Mark Boulton 2020-05-27
Perception and Balancing Idealism with Pragmatism 2020-04-13
Visual Design Inspiration from Agency Websites–And Other Tangential Observations 2020-04-02
Design Principles Applied to the SF Fonts 2019-09-05
Designing and Engineering for Progressive Disclosure 2019-08-12

#designProcess (30)

Designing the “Quick Quote” Experience in Agent Portal 2019-01-08
Detective Work for the App Icon Book 2018-06-19
Blog Redesign: Out with the Old, in with the Old 2018-05-22
I Liked this Podcast 2017-08-16
Designing and Engineering Event Management for Timshel’s “Admin” Web Application 2017-08-11
Designing Integrations for the Admin Application at Timshel 2017-04-19
Designing Cross-Application Login Screens (and Business Relationships) 2017-03-08
Designing and Engineering Color Usage in Agent Portal 2017-01-06
Redesigning and Engineering the UI/UX for Unauthenticated Users of Timshel’s “Admin” 2016-12-09
Text as UI 2016-11-24
SassMe v2.0 2016-09-27
Arc90 “Work” Page Design Updates 2016-07-09
Designing and Developing the DCP Application 2016-05-17
Going the Extra Mile with Tasks and Feature Requests 2016-03-02
Designing and Building the Assignment Desk Application 2016-01-28
Innovation Sales Sheet 2015-12-30
Assignment Desk Logo 2015-12-03
Kindling Marketing Site 2.0 2015-09-11
Designing Kindling’s Pricing Page 2015-08-26
Skinning the Idea Poster Anew 2015-05-20
Conceiving Blog Post Artwork 2015-05-04
Everything But Visual Design 2015-02-05
Team Colors 2.0 2015-01-16
Words Have Meaning: Creating the “Let’s Talk Innovation” Page 2014-11-19
Designing a Successful Transaction Receipt 2014-11-04
Creating Apple Touch Icons 2014-10-28
Kindling Rubber Stamp 2014-10-23
Logo Integrity Brought into Focus 2014-09-02
Home Page Redesign of kindlingapp.com 2013-09-26
Team Color Codes 2013-02-19

#engineering (59)

Approaches to Using autosize.js to Automatically Resize a textarea on User Input 2020-10-12
ES Modules: There is No Registry 2020-08-31
Deploying a (Wannbe) Monorepo in Netlify 2020-08-25
Git Info in Node for a Babel Config 2020-07-15
Import ES Modules from Github 2020-07-13
Sass Color Functions in CSS 2020-05-30
Downloading and Uploading Text Files Using the Dropbox JavaScript SDK 2020-05-07
Using Netlify Analytics to Build a List of Popular Posts 2020-03-16
Switching from CJS to ES Modules 2020-03-09
Progressively Enhancing a Small Widget 2020-03-05
Using PropTypes Outside of React in Template Literal Components 2020-01-27
Static Site Templating: Switching from React & JSX to JavaScript & Template Literals 2020-01-27
A Node.js Helper Function for Accessing the CommonJS Equivalent of __dirname in ES Modules. 2019-12-20
Netlify Public Folder, Part III: How? The Winding Road to Making a Local Folder Sync to Netlify’s Global CDN 2019-12-04
Netlify Public Folder, Part II: Why? Netlify Large Media Wasn’t For Me, But Netlify Still Was 2019-12-04
Netlify Public Folder, Part I: What? Recreating the Dropbox Public Folder With Netlify 2019-12-04
ECMAScript Modules in Node: My Own Personal Rabbit Hole 2019-11-25
Design Principles Applied to the SF Fonts 2019-09-05
Designing and Engineering for Progressive Disclosure 2019-08-12
JSX-Like Syntax for Tagged Template Literals in JavaScript 2019-07-16
Dynamically Darken a Color in CSS 2019-07-12
Leveraging Regexes and Git to Find/Replace Dates in Markdown Files 2019-07-10
How to Create a macOS Menu Bar App for Netlify 2019-06-19
Applying Multiple Background Colors with CSS 2019-04-18
Using @import in CSS to Conditionally Load Syntax Highlighting Styles in Dark Mode 2019-04-16
Thoughts on Jeremy Keith’s “Split” 2019-04-10
Moving from EJS to JSX 2019-04-01
Down the Rabbit Hole of Image Optimization Tooling 2019-03-27
Improving Server-Side Rendering with React 2019-03-18
One-Press Deploys: Triggering a Build in Netlify via an Amazon IoT Button 2019-03-11
Generating Shades of Color Using CSS Variables 2019-01-31
Building a Progressively-Enhanced Site 2019-01-17
Conditionally Load Material Icons 2019-01-07
The Difference Between substring and substr in JavaScript 2019-01-04
Personal Observations on “CSS and Network Performance” by Harry Roberts 2018-12-29
Bringing “Dark Mode” to My Icon Galleries Sites 2018-12-28
Supporting CSS Variables in Sass 2018-12-18
Triggering a Deploy in Netlify With Bookmarklets 2018-11-21
Migrating from Pathnames to Subdomains for jim-nielsen.com 2018-11-14
Dark Mode on the Web via OS-Level Preferences 2018-10-25
Netlibox: My Guest Post on Netlify’s Blog 2018-10-16
Choosing a Static Site Generator 2018-08-02
Installing and Building an NPM Package from Github 2018-04-10
Writing as a Process for Iterative Problem Solving (and Thoughts on Structuring a Small Redux Project) 2018-03-23
URL Design and Automated Redirects in Jekyll 2018-02-23
Creating iOS Icon Masks in the Browser 2017-11-27
Migrating Away from Compass and Susy to Sass Exclusively 2017-01-11
Designing and Engineering Color Usage in Agent Portal 2017-01-06
Redesigning and Engineering the UI/UX for Unauthenticated Users of Timshel’s “Admin” 2016-12-09
SassMe v2.0 2016-09-27
Designing and Developing the DCP Application 2016-05-17
Designing and Building the Assignment Desk Application 2016-01-28
Kindling Marketing Site 2.0 2015-09-11
Team Colors 2.0 2015-01-16
Logo Integrity Brought into Focus 2014-09-02
Workarounds to Variable Interpolation in Sass 2013-07-29
Preserving CSS Comments For Wordpress During Sass Compression 2013-07-22
Retrieving Recent Posts from Scriptogram in JSON Format Using PHP 2013-07-08
Calculate the Border Radius for iOS-Style Icons Using a Simple Ratio 2012-12-11

#generalNotes (4)

Notes on “The Ugly Truth about Design Systems” by Mark Boulton 2020-05-27
Notes on “Rethinking Asynchronous Programming in JavaScript” by Kyle Simpson 2019-06-24
Notes on “Functional Lite Javascript” by Kyle Simpson 2017-07-03
Notes from Fluent Conference 2017-06-28

#html (2)

Web Technologies and Syntax 2020-08-10
The Resiliency of the Internet 2020-08-04

#insight (10)

Perception and Balancing Idealism with Pragmatism 2020-04-13
Designing the “Quick Quote” Experience in Agent Portal 2019-01-08
Conditionally Load Material Icons 2019-01-07
Supporting CSS Variables in Sass 2018-12-18
Installing and Building an NPM Package from Github 2018-04-10
Writing as a Process for Iterative Problem Solving (and Thoughts on Structuring a Small Redux Project) 2018-03-23
Designing Cross-Application Login Screens (and Business Relationships) 2017-03-08
Migrating Away from Compass and Susy to Sass Exclusively 2017-01-11
Designing and Engineering Color Usage in Agent Portal 2017-01-06
Text as UI 2016-11-24

#javascript (5)

React Without Build Tools 2020-11-11
Exporting to HTML from JavaScript Using Blob URLs 2020-10-15
Approaches to Using autosize.js to Automatically Resize a textarea on User Input 2020-10-12
The Economics of the Front-End 2020-09-21
ES Modules: There is No Registry 2020-08-31

#netlify (12)

Setup a CORS Proxy With Netlify 2020-12-15
Deploying a (Wannbe) Monorepo in Netlify 2020-08-25
Comparing Data in Google and Netlify Analytics 2020-07-23
Using Netlify Analytics to Build a List of Popular Posts 2020-03-16
Netlify Public Folder, Part III: How? The Winding Road to Making a Local Folder Sync to Netlify’s Global CDN 2019-12-04
Netlify Public Folder, Part II: Why? Netlify Large Media Wasn’t For Me, But Netlify Still Was 2019-12-04
Netlify Public Folder, Part I: What? Recreating the Dropbox Public Folder With Netlify 2019-12-04
How to Create a macOS Menu Bar App for Netlify 2019-06-19
One-Press Deploys: Triggering a Build in Netlify via an Amazon IoT Button 2019-03-11
Triggering a Deploy in Netlify With Bookmarklets 2018-11-21
Migrating from Pathnames to Subdomains for jim-nielsen.com 2018-11-14
Netlibox: My Guest Post on Netlify’s Blog 2018-10-16

#postlight (4)

Designing and Developing the DCP Application 2016-05-17
Going the Extra Mile with Tasks and Feature Requests 2016-03-02
Designing and Building the Assignment Desk Application 2016-01-28
Assignment Desk Logo 2015-12-03

#readingNotes (44)

Reading Notes, December 2020 2020-12-26
Reading Notes, November 2020 2020-11-30
Reading Notes, October 2020 2020-10-28
Reading Notes, September 2020 2020-09-28
Reading Notes, August 2020 2020-08-31
Reading Notes, July 2020 2020-07-29
Reading Notes, June 2020 2020-06-30
Reading Notes, May 2020 2020-05-28
Reading Notes, March 2020 2020-03-30
Reading Notes, February 2020 2020-02-21
Reading Notes, January 2020 2020-01-24
Reading Notes, December 2019 2019-12-30
Reading Notes, November 2019 2019-11-25
Reading Notes, October 2019 2019-10-28
Reading Notes, August 2019 2019-08-27
Reading Notes, June 2019 2019-06-30
Reading Notes, May 2019 2019-05-28
Reading Notes, March 2019 2019-03-26
Reading Notes, February 2019 2019-02-28
Reading Notes, January 2019 2019-01-30
Reading Notes, December 2018 2018-12-27
Reading Notes, November 2018 2018-11-26
Reading Notes, October 2018 2018-10-29
Reading Notes, September 2018 2018-09-30
Reading Notes, August 2018 2018-08-24
Reading Notes, July 2018 2018-07-28
Reading Notes, June 2018 2018-06-25
Reading Notes, May 2018 2018-05-04
Reading Notes, March 2018 2018-03-13
Reading Notes, January 2018 2018-01-05
Reading Notes, October 2017 2017-10-28
Reading Notes, June 2017 2017-06-22
Reading Notes, May 2017 2017-05-09
Reading Notes, April 2017 2017-04-07
Reading Notes, January 2017 2017-01-31
Reading Notes, November 2016 2016-11-18
Reading Notes, October 2016 2016-10-01
Reading Notes, September 2016 2016-09-08
Reading Notes, July 2016 2016-08-08
Reading Notes, December 2015 2015-12-01
Reading Notes, November 2015 2015-11-02
Reading Notes, September 2015 2015-10-05
Reading Notes, August 2015 2015-08-31
Reading Notes, November 2012 2012-12-04

#stories (4)

Git Info in Node for a Babel Config 2020-07-15
50 Blog Posts in 2020 2020-03-02
How Apple Engineers Decided the App Icon Size for the Original iPhone 2019-01-29
My Little Cabin in the Woods of Logo Integrity 2018-08-09

#theMoreYouKnow (1)

Credentials in URLs 2020-03-20

#thoughts (60)

The Missing Hit and the Open Web 2020-12-09
The Organic Web 2020-11-17
Ten Anti-Principles of Good Design 2020-10-19
Cheating Entropy with Native Web Technologies 2020-10-08
The Economics of the Front-End 2020-09-21
Make Me Think 2020-08-24
Growth, Creativity, and You 2020-08-18
Web Technologies and Syntax 2020-08-10
Remote Work is a Craft 2020-08-07
The Resiliency of the Internet 2020-08-04
Webster’s Dictionary Defines “View Source” As... 2020-08-03
The Web as an Information System 2020-07-06
Thoughts on Designing a UI Driven By User-Controlled, System-Level Preferences 2020-05-18
Musings on the Documentary “For Everyone” 2020-05-12
Writing vs. Coding 2020-03-23
Empowering the Few 2020-03-18
Design Systems and Airplanes 2020-03-11
Software and Home Renovation 2020-02-25
The Spirit of “View Source” 2020-02-24
Programming Pairs Well With Other Disciplines 2020-02-13
Texting is Cerebral 2020-02-06
Follow Your Values, Not Your Passions 2020-01-14
My Favorite RSS Feeds 2019-09-16
Thoughts on Rich Harris’ “Metaphysics and JavaScript” 2019-09-03
Dealing With Uncertainty in Art...and Life 2019-08-30
Good Things 2019-08-13
Saying No 2019-07-03
Your Product Doesn’t Have to Look the Same On Every Platform 2019-04-29
Thoughts on Jeremy Keith’s “Split” 2019-04-10
The Power of Prototypes in the Creative Process 2019-03-06
A Short Perspective on Hiring 2018-04-13
The Value of Visual Design 2017-11-04
The World Wide Web of People at My Disposal 2017-10-02
Limitations in Software 2017-08-26
Stop Using the Term “Pixel Perfect”, Start Focusing on Experiences 2017-04-17
The Analog Web 2017-03-27
The Art of the Side Project 2017-01-17
Paul Rand on Logos 2016-07-11
One Algorithm to Rule Them All 2015-10-17
A Web of People 2015-06-29
Defining Beauty on the Web 2014-03-11
A Logo Is an Image, The Image of a Company 2014-03-03
Benjamin Franklin, an Open Source Contributor? 2013-12-18
The Evolution of Creativity 2013-11-06
Wireframes and Gravity 2013-10-21
Ostentatious Design & Profanity 2013-10-14
The “Kinda-Sorta Looks Like the Internet” Internet 2013-09-26
Automating Feelings 2013-09-23
Once Again, It’s About Putting the User First 2013-08-12
Workarounds to Variable Interpolation in Sass 2013-07-29
Things to Be Informed About in Life 2013-07-24
Thoughts from “On Writing Well” 2013-07-15
When Advertising Became About the Buyer, Not the Product 2013-06-27
The Incredible (Frustrating) Potential of Google Glass 2013-05-17
An Analysis of Infinte Scrolling 2013-05-05
Coming to Appreciate Art 2013-03-08
Quick Change and the Web 2013-01-29
Science Speaks: Good Typography = Good Mood 2013-01-08
Said No Normal User, Ever. 2012-12-12
Understanding Comes in Stages 2012-11-28

#timshel (3)

#tips (14)

Twitter Cards and Visually Representing That I’ve Got Stuff To Say 2019-12-20
A Node.js Helper Function for Accessing the CommonJS Equivalent of __dirname in ES Modules. 2019-12-20
Creating iOS Icon Masks in the Browser 2017-11-27
Going the Extra Mile with Tasks and Feature Requests 2016-03-02
Thoughts from “On Writing Well” 2013-07-15
Seemly Selectors 2013-06-11
Changes to max_upload_filesize not working in php.ini? Restart Apache! 2013-06-10
Stop Direct Spam Comments in Wordpress 2013-05-22
Why Do We Sketch? 2013-05-15
Unintended Visual Relationships 2013-03-26
Freebie Resources - Don’t Assume, Double Check 2013-02-12
Modularize Your PSDs by Embedding Them Inside Each Other 2013-01-31
Miscellaneous Unicode Symbols, Font Stacks, and You 2013-01-21
Calculate the Border Radius for iOS-Style Icons Using a Simple Ratio 2012-12-11