Melanie Richards

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Pacific Northwest Pen Show I attended my first fountain pen show, the inaugural PNW Pen Show!

Watching some sad dads play music at Marymoor Park, with THE BEST LIVE BRASS SECTION Busy busy busy!

The view from Heybrook Ridge.

I recently participated in Dewey’s Readathon again, in which you read a whole bunch within 24 hours.

All I did in April was gush over the beautiful blossoms in Seattle.

Wedding Bonanza 💒 Photo by the incredible Jenn Tai at the Seattle Asian Art Museum.

Disclosure: I am currently on the Product team at Netlify.

Disclosure: I am currently on the Product team at Netlify.

Well, my friends.

As I write this, flights are being canceled in droves all over the country, and the roads and sidewalks in Seattle are covered in ice.

I refuse to believe that a whole month has passed; November went by in the blink of an eye.

What my bookshelf looked like in January 2022.

The first half of October was disconcertingly warm.

For a couple years now, I’ve had a similiar-ish theme up on my website: black-and-white pixel art, Space Mono headings, with body copy rendered in Mallory.

Life has been super busy this past couple months, hence the double feature this time around.

Task management tools I can remember using over the years as a designer, developer, or product manager; roughly in order; often overlapping; whether voluntarily or otherwise: Teux Deux (and probably other simple tools scattered throughout) Bugzilla Goes to

Whether you’re new to the tech industry or not quite clear on how some of your colleagues spend their days, you might wonder, “what does a product manager do?”

Fitting for “touch grass” season, I’ve pretty much not touched a computer for personal projects in July.

An explosion of green!

Quick tip: if your team sends an internal newsletter or status email, consider rotating which team member is responsible for driving content and sharing out the update.

Support for Azure DevOps as a Git provider on Netlify My first sizable release with my coworkers at Netlify!

Full disclosure: at time of writing, I’m employed by Netlify, and I work there because I’m a fan of the platform.

My main side project lately is a world snacks review site, which I’m using to play around with Contentful as a headless CMS.

Sometimes (often) when I sit down to write these monthly logs, I am at a loss for how another entire month has passed by.

Note: this post assumes familiarity with forced colors modes styling and Windows High Contrast, now called “Contrast Themes” in Windows 11.

The most important and devastating thing to come out of February is Russia’s attack on Ukraine.

Late in January we moved into our new/first house!

The biggest development this month: my significant other and I bought a house!

Rahul proudly shows off his snow-son / Cherry blossom petals on ivy in the neighborhood / Anenomes on the beach at Discovery Park Well, Year 2 of the pandemic is in the books.

In November I spent much of my free time on an exciting but time-consuming life task/goal (being vague here by design), so this will be a fairly light learning log.

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Lately, I’ve wanted to draw more, but don’t always have ideas on what to draw.

Note: this post assumes familiarity with forced colors modes styling and Windows High Contrast, now called “Contrast Themes” in Windows 11.

This month I started a new job as a Senior Product Manager at Netlify!

Finally got around to kayaking on Lake Union!

I’d been thinking about how I want to live more intentionally with the seasons, and naturally end up reaching for a mini-site to address some small need I have.