The Web Witch's Blog

2 international moves 21 books read / 14000 pages read 612 copies of Design for Developers sold (the eBook is 50% off as of 12/30, grab a copy!)

I've been digging around on web platform status pages to see what's come out and what's planned for web developers.

Chrome 120 was released last week and in this version, we got the CSS Media Query for scripting support.

11 months ago I packed up my life and moved across the world to Berlin for work.

I love a bougie experience.

At the start of the year I had written about how I wanted to spend this year writing about new CSS features landing in browsers.

I've been deep in a creation hole since the middle of August.

The past few days have been incredibly stressful for me with more bureaucratic processes and paperwork.

Instagram had been testing out removing the ability to see recent posts under hash tags for about a year.

I was getting ready to fly to Denmark last week with my (now) husband when I was reading a LinkedIn thread that was unfolding on a post about my book Design for Developers.

After I started at Microsoft in 2016, I built my own HTML portfolio website instead of using a template.

As of July 31st, my work contract with Rapid officially ended and that chapter of my life is closed.

What feels like a very long time ago, I was leading the design, UX and front-end development for the open source project webhint.io.

With the announcement of Google's Pixel Fold, I thought its an apt time to revisit what technologies are available for designing and developing experiences that adapt to a foldable device.

Routine is incredibly important, and its importance is something I didn't quite grasp until recently.

A few weeks ago, I was sat in a conference room with two of my engineering managers talking about JWT tokens, session IDs and OAuth.

I want to take a quick look at another experimental CSS feature today that's focused on tailoring what gets served to a user based on their preferences, but this time it's performance based.

In the last year I have changed jobs, moved twice (one of those internationally) and traveled about 120,000 miles.

So many things have my attention lately that I've been trying to figure out how to handle everything.

Today we're taking a look at another new addition to CSS that's about to land in browsers: initial-letter.

I was designing a little basic one page checklist for PWA design best practices based off a talk I gave last year (and will give again this year).

January 1st 2022 Steph was very sad after struggling to get through the night before.

While perusing the December 2022 post from web.dev about what's new in the web platform, the addition of Trigonometric CSS functions in Firefox caught my eye.

2022 is the year that showed me once you choose to be happy and choose yourself...things drastically change in your favor.

In 2021 I only read 6 out of 12 books for my reading challenge.

When I was early in my career at Microsoft, I was telling my coworker Anton that I was struggling with writing one of my bi-yearly reviews because it felt like I kept getting randomized with tasks that didn’t tie back to my main projects.

Due to time zone differences, I'm not typically able to attend team sprint retrospectives on Fridays.

I have been deep in learning mode the last 3 weeks learning about all the things API related.

26 May 2022 I can still remember that drive home like it was yesterday.

15 May 2022 My life has been a bundle of joy since I moved into Seattle from Redmond in March, and I couldn't be happier.

11 March 2022 Whoops.

It's almost a joke now, how I expect comments from men on my videos for work.

27 October 2021 It has been 20 months since I last stood in front of a group of people and delivered a talk.

22 October 2021 We're going to pretend like it's not been 10 months since I blogged.

15 December 2020 I was sat in Heathrow at the end of January, riding an unimaginable professional high.

13 November 2020 We've been driving the Web We Want for over a year now, asking developers what they think is missing from the web platform or DevTools.

28 October 2020 My role of the Edge Developer Experiences Ecosystem team tends to revolve around gathering developer feedback.

I've started to run initial validation surveys on Web We Want submissions to help determine which of the submissions are worth continuing to investigate.

22 June 2020 I was working on a project that required me pulling up the developer tools in different browsers against my personal website when I opened up Safari and noticed how drastically different the title of my page was rendering.

It's the Saturday evening of May 16th, 2020 as I write this blog post.

14 May 2020 At the end of July 2019, we kicked off our first live Web We Want session.

I find my perception of time to mind-boggling sometimes.

Nearly a year ago I reached out to my high school across the state about coming in and giving a talk about careers in tech.

Last year I joined my co-worker Aaron Gustafson in kicking off an initiative called The Web We Want that focuses on identifying pain points or gaps in the web platform as identified by developers and web designers.

Full disclosure, the webhint project is near and dear to my heart.

Last year I took a mindfulness course led by a former team lead who had switched careers at Microsoft.

This isn’t going to be a technical or necessarily professional focused recap.

This is a post about how I built my bullet journal demo that you can find over here.

There isn't a day that goes by that I feel extremely privileged to do what I get to do for work.

I would say that I live an extremely privileged and comfortable life.