Melanie Richards

👷‍♀ What I’ve been working on Makers Who Blog I spun up a new directory, Makers Who Blog, to minimize my reliance on social platforms for finding inspiration.

Puget Sound at low tide 👷‍♀ What I’ve been working on Sewed another Topstitch Essential Shirt Made peach ice cream (my second flavor!)

👷‍♀ What I’ve been working on Following along with Scribble Brigade workshops from Sophie McPike Changed out my key caps for the first time and learned how to mount Costar stabilizers Participated in another Urban Sketchers outing, the Greenwood car show…

Mid-late April and heading into May, I got body-slammed with probably the worst cold I’ve ever had (seems like folks all across the U.S. got this one, thanks spring breakers!).

I returned to work from my parental leave in mid-February, hence the lack of a Feb Learning Log.

My latest anti-fascist flair is from The Peach Fuzz.

Note: this is just the highlight reel.

December flew by in the blink of an eye.

We have a two month old now!

Our first child turned a month old during October!

My husband Rahul and I are pleased to announce our best beta (or shall I say beti?)

🧶 Crafting Finished knitting my second pair of socks ever, ones with flowers around the cuff Finally learned how to use my yarn ball winder and swift, which was actually pretty easy, fast, and fun Selected a color palette, ordered and washed fabric for the

Dave’s blog post “How to make a Link Aggregator in Obsidian” inspired me to finally make my Learning Log process a little smarter, starting with the May 2025 log.

The big work win for July was that my team at Webflow shipped Interactions with GSAP!

🧶 Crafting I completed two sewing projects in June: My first knit dress, a mild “hack” of the Closet Core T-Shirt pattern A canvas project bag for my knitting, made with a fabric of hamsters shaped like onigiri (!!!)

When I first got into product management, the software development process resembled a Niagara-sized waterfall approach.

🧶 Crafting Finished my first colorwork sock, with a flower motif along the cuff.

Long after the zeitgeist has passed, I’m upholding my link in the blogging questions chain.

The biggest share of my brainspace at work lately: Webflow + GSAP have made the GSAP library 100% free!

March went by in the blink of an eye, between traveling for half the month and trying to keep moving forward in spite of the constant state of crisis Americans find ourselves in. 🧶 Crafting Made great progress on my first Colorwork Cuff Club sock; I’m kni…

🧶 Crafting Closet Core T-Shirt: finally wrote a blog post for my first ever t-shirt, which I sewed in February!

I can’t even begin to state how rough January was for my mental health due to Political Circumstances; you may be feeling the same.

👩‍💻 Career 2024 brought plenty of change, work-wise: In February I wrapped up my time on the product team at Netlify, and will forever treasure my experiences with so many lovely humans.

Melanie Sumner once mentioned wanting to trade lists of favorite stationery items, so what do I do?

💙 Webflow This “monthly” Learning Log is a double feature because I have been just so dang busy at work!

🚀 Shipping My team at work released variable reordering and bulk actions for variables!

2024 continues to race by, and August was no exception.

Summer is in full swing over here in Seattle!

I have long lamented the fact that Snowflake doesn’t enable you to add open text to your dashboard in Snowsight (their web UI).

My husband and I visited my family in Gainesville, FL for Father’s Day and my niece’s fifth birthday.

In all my years as an absolute book fiend with a personal website, I’ve never hosted my reading list here!

How about that aurora?!

While discussing impostor syndrome with friends recently, I was shocked to realize that for me it had mostly…gone away???

Seeing the Northern Lights has been on my bucket list for a long time.

How is it May already?

New role at Webflow The biggest personal event lately is my transition to a new role at Webflow!

Earlier this month I had a week and a half in between jobs.

Learning blackletter calligraphy In honor of Austin Kleon’s “29-day Practice and Suck Less challenge”, I decided to try learning blackletter calligraphy once and for all—specifically Textura Quadrata, the earliest and simplest form of blackletter calligra…

Blah winter vibes this January with a cold snap that brought the weather into the teens (Fahrenheit) for ~a week in Seattle, WA.

Over the weekend I built a new little site that’s been on my mind: Lit Tapes!

Not going to lie, this was a challenging year.

In August 2022, I was casually browsing through Jetpens (as one does), and thought I might like to give fountain pens one last try.

Luckily for Seattleites, the SAM has a Hokusai exhibit going on through end of January.

I have yet to meet a product manager who feels they have enough time for vision, strategy, or customer discovery.

The social calendar does not seem to be slowing down, despite our transition into fall and the pandemic raging on.

Note: I’m posting my monthly update in the midst of a crisis harming Israelis and Palestinians, which includes some of my co-workers.

Planning out long-term career goals has always been a challenge for me, and I’ve come to accept that it’s for good reason: I am led by curiosity and want to keep my options open for what sparks my interest.