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Some woodworkers really dislike Ikea furniture.

I want to introduce a tool that I've been working on for a few weeks.

This is the story of self-hosting a music portfolio in my homelab using Faircamp.

Almost a year ago, I wrote about my game plan for POSSE.

I've been curious about LSDJ again and thought I'd write a different kind of post about it.

People joke about how Vim is hard to quit, but I want to make it easier to start.

I've been enjoying LSDJ recently and building an Arduinoboy was the next "logical" step.

One of the first components I wrote for this blog migration was a naive image gallery.

I signed up for Twitter back in 2007.

Introduction TypeScript can be leveraged reduce certain classes of bugs, but there are still plenty of edges left exposed.

Developers often claim that leveraging TypeScript's advanced type system can lead to more readable and maintainable code.

Sometimes 1000 words doesn't paint a very good picture.

While Obsidian is great, lately I've been considering how to get similar affordances with alternative tools. zk looks like a nice tool to consider for a more cli driven workflow.

In an effort to better understand how CNC Routers work, I decided to build one from scratch.

A client recently requested a site be set up on CloudCannon.

Here are notes from building a proof of concept around integrating Watson Retrieve and Rank service into an Alexa skill.

It's easy to get Drupal up and running by clicking around http://drupal.org, downloading and extracting packages, but that's not how I do it.

A properly leveraged styleguide can be a great communication tool between designer and developers.

I was talking with a coworker about my recent jekyll reboot.

In an effort to avoid distraction and get right to writing, I chose to move this blog to Jekyll.

At An Event Apart in Atlanta, Jenn Lukas, presented a developer’s perspective on design for the web.

At An Event Apart in Atlanta, Samantha Warren made a case for why style tiles should be added to your back of tricks.

At An Event Apart in Atlanta, Sarah Parmenter encouraged designers to use data to inform the decision making process.

I've been using Todo.txt for a little while now.

When talking about the pursuit of simplicity, there tends to be at least one naysayer.

Contrary to popular belief, Android users like nice things too.

I’m a big fan of designing with code, design in the browser or… whatever you want to call it.

I find myself daisy chaining a few blog posts together to get up and running with Rails.

I’ve been using Ruby for a little while now.

I was looking for a good excuse to learn CoffeeScript so I came up with a project that takes a note and returns the blues scale in that key.

Since I moved back to Ohio, I’ve been playing guitar more and even built a cigar box guitar with my dad.

Illustrator has some fantastic layout tools that are often overlooked by web designers.

Up until recently, I've been reluctant to do much sketching digitally.

I recently wrote about an easy way to set up a grid in Illustrator.

It’s not that important to teach older versions of IE how to handle media queries.

Here are the steps I take to efficiently sketch out grids in Illustrator.

The Illustrator pixel is a majestic beast quite hard to pin down.

I make a lot of websites with Drupal.

I've been reading up on Android interface design lately.

HTML can feel unwieldy and inefficient to edit.

I recently competed in UnmatchedStyle’s CSSOff competition where frontend developers each took a crack at marking up the same Photoshop document.

Here is a quick tip that comes in handy for me all the time.

A few weeks ago, I decided it was time to start blogging, again.

Susy looks to be a very nice tool for making cleanly marked-up grid-based sites.

I really want to like Sass, I have tried to pick it up a couple of times.

I’m a renting kind of guy.

I just finished the first day of a three day course I’m taking on WPF.

I recently resolved a server performance issue.

While it’s not shocking that someone snatched up the talent of 280 North, who aquired them (more to the point why) brings a smile to my face that can only be conjured up by sweet… sweet irony.

While it is nice that new smartphones can render virtually any website reasonably well, we are remiss to not take context into account.