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Experiment Cleanup and Tiny Phones
July 22, 2024
Hey friends, I'm grateful for some rain and some cooler temperatures this week! ๐ง๏ธ Things I Built I was doing a little spring/summer cleaning and dug up and...
Client Presentations and 20,000,000 Particles
July 15, 2024
Hey friends, Phew, we're all feeling a little crispy this week. Stay cool, stay safe! Thinking Too Hard This year I again have the privilege as serving as...
Weird Potatoes and Undefined
July 8, 2024
Hey friends, Hope y'all had a great (and safe!) Independence Day! ๐๐บ๐ธ Things I Made It's been a long time in the making, but I've created my first game! It's...
Just Dรผ It and The Legend of Link
July 1, 2024
Hey friends, How many ears does Captain Kirk have? Three. The left ear, the right ear, and the final front-ear. ๐ Thinking Too Hard This week, I've been...
Potato Sprites and Musical Billiards
June 24, 2024
Hey friends, How many tickles does it take to make an octopus laugh? Ten-tickles ๐ (Oof, that one's pretty bad ๐ ). Thinking Too Hard I spent time last week...
Fluid Grids and Inline Conditionals
June 17, 2024
Hey friends, Why are peppers the best at archery? Because they habanero! ๐๐ Words I Wrote You know what goes well with Fluid Type? Fluid Grids! But not just...
Summer Thoughts and Sheet Bends
June 10, 2024
Hey friends, The school year is officially over! LET SUMMER BEGIN! ๐๐๐ Thinking Too Hard No deep thoughts this week, only SUMMER THOUGHTS. Interesting Web...
Fathomless Doing and Adventure Mice
June 3, 2024
Hey friends, I was going to tell you a joke about time travel, but you didn't like it... Thinking Too Hard Have you ever tackled a problem only to learn that...
StimPine Comparison and SLICE/PLUCK/FLICK
May 28, 2024
Hey friends, Just a PSA now that the weather's nice: if you work outside you should PROBABLY put on sunscreen. (Don't be like me and get burned!) ๐ ๐๐งด...
Openings and Eel Slaps
May 20, 2024
Hey friends, We're rounding the corner on May-cember! June is almost in sight! ๐ Thinking Too Hard I had the opportunity last week to do a mini-presentation...
Between-Spaces and Strange Tunnels
May 13, 2024
Hey friends, It was a different type of week last week as the PL/UI team (Platform/User Interface) at Viget got together for an offsite location for several...
Story Games and Talking Heads
May 6, 2024
Hey friends, The end-of-school madness is upon us. This time of spring is a fever-dream of ALL the events happening at once combined with everyone trying to...
32.69230769% and Vue 3
April 29, 2024
Hey friends, Did you know we just finished week 17 of 52 which makes us 32.69230769% of the way though 2024? SQUADALA! WE'RE OFF! Thinking Too Hard I got to...
Heavy Teams and Mario Pareto
April 22, 2024
Hey friends, Just a friendly reminder, everyone is just one bad sandwich away from a rough weekend. Whoo-eee. ๐๐ฅช And here I thought avocados were my...
Consulting and Partying in 1999
April 15, 2024
Hey friends, Hope you managed to catch the eclipse last week without burning holes in your retinas. ๐๐ Now that we're through with that phenomena, prepare...
Alpine and Pictionary Jams
April 8, 2024
Hey friends, Spring has sprung, and so have my sinuses! ๐๐ผ Thinking Too Hard This week I got to use Alpine.js for a content site build... and I like it! I'm...
Easter and Inscrutable Cats
April 1, 2024
Hey friends, We're celebrating Easter this week, which happens to be my favorite holiday (sorry Christmas, it's not you, it's me.) We really ought to have...
Spring Break and The Sound of CLI
March 25, 2024
Hey friends, Spring Break is here โ but hey, not for you, fellow working adult! (Unless you ARE actually on Spring Break, in which case I hope you have a...
The 'T' in Tailwind is for... and Fantasy Workstations
March 18, 2024
Hey friends, I've decided that age is relative, not a number... and this week I feel OLD. Old in the sense that you swing some kettlebells and THIS week,...
Project Logs and Screenreader Surveys
March 11, 2024
Hey folks, Hope you've all had a fantastic weekend as we get ready to tuck into another week. Spring break is almost here! ๐ผ๐ณ Things I Wrote I wrote about...
Brain Reset and Lack of Twig
March 4, 2024
Hey Folks, You ever have one of those days where you simply forget to do things you've done consistently for months? That's me this week. Not just one thing,...
Unique Perspectives and Centering a Div
February 26, 2024
Hey folks, Hope you're having a glorious week already! Thinking Too Hard Last week I was asked to summarize my experience creating a webinar. Thinking about...
Existence of Nature and Motion Blabber
February 20, 2024
Hey Folks, Nothing like a day off to remind yourself that there's things like TREES and NATURE and FRESH AIR out there. I recommend you go grab a good lung-...
New Experiments and Scrollbar Properties
February 12, 2024
Hey Folks, We're firmly in Balumtine'th Week, hope you take some time to tell those you love how much they mean to you! A Thing I Made I decided my old...
The WeirdNet and Frog Corrals
February 5, 2024
Hey Folks, It's been a weird week, so let's celebrate with even MORE weirdness! Because... why not? From The WeirdNet I've been thinking a lot about the...
Water Heaters and React Annoyance
January 29, 2024
Hey Folks, Sorry for the late version of this week's newsletter โ the joys of home ownership caught up with me when our water heater developed a leak this...
Webinars and the Death of Ello
January 22, 2024
Hey Folks, Hope y'all are staying warm in these cooold temps. I was reminded that I have indeed acclimated to the southern US and that sub 20ยฐF temps feel...
No Snow and the Weird Internet
January 16, 2024
Hey folks, They said it would snow, but all we have is cold rain in NC. Hope you all are all safe and bundled warm if it ACTUALLY snowed where you are!...
InVision Memories and Void Elements
January 8, 2024
Hey Folks, Here we are in a new year. We ate far too much food over the holidays (per usual) and all got sick (per usual). Thankfully we're all better now...
Low-Profile Keyboards and Vanilla Applications
December 18, 2023
Hey folks, Last week of Christmas Crunch before Actual Christmas. This is always that weird trapped week where they'd show movies in school instead of...
Project Configs and One Winged Angels
December 11, 2023
Hey folks, We're rounding the last lap here on the Christmas Crunch, the finish line is in sight! ๐ Thinking Too Hard Not groundbreaking, but I learned that...
Tailwind Regex and Punching Sonic
December 4, 2023
Hey folks, We now enter the 'Holiday Crunch' where we try to squeeze out a few projects before the end of the year. WE GOT THIS... Things I Wrote I recently...
[Automated Notice:] Annual Pie Coma
November 27, 2023
Hey folks, This is an automated message while I recover from my Annual Pie Coma. I'll be back next week! Until then! โจ
Pies and the TypeScript Kiddie Pool
November 20, 2023
Hey folks, It's a shorter week this week as there's some pies with my name on them. Hope you have a great holiday, wherever and however you celebrate it!...
Internet Voices and Not Doing the Thing
November 13, 2023
Hey folks! Another week closer to the annual Wow-Nathan-That's-A-Lot-Of-Pies-Are-You-Sure-You-Want-Another Day... And yes... Yes, I do... ๐ฅง๐ Thinking Too...
The Greatest Candy and Event Delegation
November 6, 2023
Hey Folks, It was a good spooky candy week, but let me submit to you, dear reader, that the greatest of all candies is largely absent from this week's candy...
HTMX and Pixel Art
October 30, 2023
Hey Folks, Spoopy Season is here ๐ป And according to some stores Christmas is here too... ๐ ... I cannot endorse this holiday melding of 'HalloThankMas' ๐ ๐ ...
Coffee Eulogies and Vite Bundle Breakdowns
October 16, 2023
Hey Folks, Disaster struck! My faithful coffee pot of 12 years bit the dust this morning... ๐ค๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ก๐ซ๐ฆ๐ค๐ฅ๐ฑ ๐ช๐ถ ๐ฐ๐ด๐ข๐ข๐ฑ ๐ ๐๐ฃ๐ฃ๐ข๐ฆ๐ซ๐๐ฑ๐ข๐ก ๐ญ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ซ๐ ๐ข... ๐ชฆ I know......
ViteConf23 and Motion Deliverables
October 9, 2023
Hey Folks, If you didn't catch it ViteConf 23 was last week, but they're running all the talks on repeat. It felt like there weren't as many updates this...
Splines and Halfsies
October 2, 2023
Hey Folks, It's been a busy week! We have a working theory in our house that challenges cannot come singly, but always in pairs or trios! Things I Made I...
Pie Dreams and Tool Preferences
September 25, 2023
Hey folks, It's officially fall! Which ushers in the best season for baked goods: Apple pie, blackberry pie, rhubarb pie, pumpkin pie, coconut creme pie......
Screen Shake and Adorable Abominations
September 18, 2023
Hey Folks, We're still recovering from the beginning-of-semester bugs here. So far I've managed to avoid getting it, but that may not last for much longer......
Fairy Godmothers and Cold Libraries
September 11, 2023
Hey folks, Another tough week. While fall brings in my favorite season, it also brings in activities ... and germs. Thank goodness for modern medicine! ๐๐ฎโ๐จ๐ค...
Psuedo-Fall and Hairless Blobs
September 4, 2023
Hey folks! The start of school has always marked the start of fall for me mentally, even though summer is around for a little while yet. I'm ready for...
Hope in Bleakness and Crappy First Drafts
August 28, 2023
Hey folks, This has been a pretty tough week for the fam. Migraines stink (for the record), we said goodbye to an extended family member and to one of our...
Scroll-driven animations and BUBBLES
August 21, 2023
Hey folks, August is the limbo-space of summer. It's STILL technically summer but everything is gearing up for the next academic season. Back-to-school...
Lava Lamps and Agents of Chaos
August 14, 2023
Hey friends, Summer is almost over, even though it's still fiendishly hot outside ๐ฅต... I remember as a kid, these summer months felt like they took forever,...
Water Like Glass and the Final Push
August 7, 2023
You know what's great? Nature. My wife and I went canoeing this week and one section of the lake was COMPLETELY STILL like a mirror. And quiet. No traffic...
Building Motion and JAMStack Zombies
July 31, 2023
Hey folks, glad you decided to stick around! Summer has been blazing by... soon it'll be Christmas and we're wondering how we got there... Words I Wrote:...