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I had the opportunity to watch some of the videos from XOXO this past August over the weekend.

As a new and even soon to be parent, you hear a lot about your child’s firsts.

I’ve been an Apple nerd since the early 2000s when I bought my first Mac — a lime green iBook — in anticipation of the release of MacOS X.

I can cross something off my bucket list today.

No, I don’t have a Vision Pro.

I don’t know about you, but the past few years have been a LOT.

Looking back, this year has felt like several years strung together.

On a Friday afternoon in early December, we said goodbye to our sweet girl of almost 15 years.

Our kid was almost done with Halloween this year.

On multiple occasions earlier in my career, I can remember writing JavaScript to make it easier for a person to select all of the text inside an element with a single click.

Last year’s theme, Rebuild, came from the desire to get back to some regular habits and improve things I’d already built.

Well, that’s a wrap on 2019!

When I was a little tyke, I would happily pilfer the comic pages from the Sunday paper and read every single one of them.

As someone with an uncommon preferred nickname, I hate seeing those little red underlines on text that I know is correct.

A while back, I updated PHP on my servers so I could update to a newer version of Craft CMS.

When I’m working with color on websites, I often find it helpful to adjust colors on the fly.

Until recently, when you’ve wanted to load a CSS file asynchronously, the best method was using a preload polyfill like LoadCSS.

While watching this great video this morning about building a rock-skipping robot, I learned there’s actually a pretty tried and tested method for getting the most skips from a rock: Angle the rock 20 degrees upward in your hand.

I was curious how many images I’ve managed to collect on my gifs site, so I ran a search on how to count the number of files in a directory.

I learned two things with this one little tidbit.

I didn’t start driving until I was almost 28, right around the same time I discovered podcasts.

Just after Christmas in 2003, I traveled alone to Paris, Venice, and Rome.

Rather than try to write a list of very specific resolutions to start off each new year, I like to stick to yearly themes.

2018 was … well, it was a hell of a year.

Music is a big part of my identity.

Tuesday marked the end of a thirty day experiment where my wife and I ate only natural foods.

2016 Year in Review This was a year of learning and firsts.

While I’ve dabbled in New Years resolutions occasionally (spoiler alert, they rarely stick), one thing I have made a successful habit of is an annual year-end digital clean up.

I’ve wanted to create the UX Tool Belt ever since I wrote The Fuel and the Engine over two years ago.

I built ColorBot to scratch a particular itch.

Over the past month, I’ve submitted not one but two entries to the A 10k Apart contest.

Earlier today I was reading Jeremy Keith’s latest post, Why do pull quotes exist on the web?

We wanted an easy way to showcase favorite recent photos and rotate in different ones over time.

Today marks the last of 366 consecutive days (it was a leap year after all) that my wife has taken at least one photo and posted it online.

When I began moving my various personal domains to a new droplet on Digital Ocean, I had a few requirements that I wanted for my set up: I wanted to be able to host multiple domains (we have a few different family domains).

Hello and welcome to the newest iteration of my site!