Ryan Trimble, UX/UI Developer

I'm feeling pretty bad about web development (like, in general) lately.

Last year I checked out Coolify, which I determined to be a rad self-hosting solution, however I never actually committed to making the switch away from Netlify.

Just wanted to pop a quick note on here to say that my former employer shut down their development blog, which had some articles I wrote prior to launching my own personal blog.

Back in High School, I remember taking career assessment tests that were supposed to help us figure out what the hell we wanted to do with our lives.

Like many folks, I struggle with mental health issues: depression, anxiety, and ADHD.

Earlier this year, I purchased myself a new toy: a network area storage device (NAS), the Synology DiskStation DS423+.

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Interesting Links Building with AI: Work Hackathon published by Ryan Trimble on 2/2/2025 I participated in my work's hackathon exploring AI.

As a team-building exercise, this was a lot of fun for a group of developers and engineers.

Interesting Links A selfish personal argument for releasing code as Open Source published by Simon Willison on 1/24/2025 During a recent interview, Simon explained how open sourcing code helps make sure he never loses access to code, even if when moving to

I'm still settling into my new role, and having a great time!

With only a few days left of 2024, I thought it might be nice to do a bit of a retrospective on the year.

Last Roundup of the year!

Next week is Christmas and I am not prepared at all.

On Monday, I start as a Senior Frontend Engineer for STRATUS!

Folks, big news: I've accepted an offer for a new position!

Back in March, I wrote an article about creating a guestbook with Astro DB, which is still a fairly popular article!

Interesting Links The engagement is better on Bluesky published by The Bluesky Team on 11/29/2024 The folks over at Bluesky released this post giving testimonials from several accounts claiming engagement is higher on the growing social network.

I can't believe Thanksgiving is next week.

Interesting Links Guide to the Node.js exports field published by Hiroki Osame on 10/15/2024 Hiroki shared this super helpful guide explaining what the export field does in your package.json file.

Interesting Links How a BBC navigation bar component broke depending on which external monitor it was on published by Josh Tumath on 11/8/2024 Josh explains an incredibly odd bug they ran into over on the BBC's UK site involving multiple monitor setups.

This past week I went to see Kamala Harris speak at the Farm Show complex in Harrisburg, PA!

Apologies for the delay this week, my sister got married yesterday and I ended up being the wedding photographer.

Another milestone, I can't believe my little Roundup is already 25 years old.

My personal developer "sweet spot" is the nexus of converting design to code for implementation, which is why I'm a big fan of design systems.

While researching a topic I unintentionally formed an opinion over, I realized I really, really enjoy having my opinion changed.

There is a quote from author Mark Twain / normal guy Samuel Clemens: "Find a job you enjoy doing, and you will never have to work a day in your life."

What a week!

Happy roundup day, everyone!

For the last few weeks I've been working on the latest iteration of my site, the one you are looking at now!

I'm about 75% complete on my website refresh, also I'm terrible at estimating.

Hey everybody, I hope you had a great week!

Interesting Links <hgroup> Basic keyboard shortcut support for focused links posted by Eric W.

A while ago, I created a little library at work to make those "skeleton screens" that I'm not sure anyone likes: Summary: A skeleton screen is used as a placeholder while users wait for a page to load.

I'm heading to Pittsburgh this weekend for Frostapalooza, Brad Frost's benefit concert-slash-party to celebrate his birthday!

Interesting Links <hgroup> CSS Chronicles XLII posted by Geoff Graham on August 9, 2024.

I had an absolutely stacked week this week, but for good reasons!

This week I returned from Los Angeles and worked on how to find A Book Apart Books now that they have closed up shop.

I have mentioned that I am not much of a book-reader before, and while I am trying to improve that, this means I was never much of a book-buyer either.

If I were left alone, I probably wouldn't do much of anything (except coding).

I haven't thought about hosting in a long time, as my default solution is Netlify.

What a week!

As someone who claims to be an advocate for accessibility, I want to take a moment to shout out Sarah Soueidan's Practical Accessibility course, which I began this week.

Over the past few weekends, I have been putting together a redesign for my friend Jaime's blog!

Interesting Links <hgroup> Transitioning to Auto Height posted by Geoff Graham on CSS-Tricks on June 28, 2024.

The next part of Better Know a Design System series is actively being written, however it is turning out much longer than expected.

I have been info-dumping about Design Systems on my blog this week.

Remember when Bootstrap came out and changed the web for bit there?

In programming, we have the ability to store bits of data as variables, which help us remember certain values, easily make updates, or just happens to contain a constant source of truth.

When a new UX project emerges, a product team may go through a design discovery phase to help navigate the project.