MKII Redesign: Choosing Fonts
Choosing three new variable fonts and squeezing them for performance
ReadDragon Balls
I 3D Printed a Dragon Ball
ReadMKII Redesign: Blackletter Logo
Refining an old logo design I've been working on to use for the basis of a new site.
ReadBuilding an Alert Component in Svelte
Creating an accessible Alert style component with a smart cacheing system
ReadWhy My Blog Stopped Using Deploy Previews
Calculating the cost of my immutable deploys previews.
ReadDark Mode: Building a Color Scheme Toggle
How to build a system that will read, set, and save a user's preferred color scheme.
ReadBuilding a Better Svelte Data Flow
How I got Sapper parameter-based routing, mdsvex and unified markdown preprocessing, dynamic import statements, and server-sider rending all working together.
ReadDark Mode: Choosing Theme Colors
Some advice on how to choose color palettes for both light and dark user themes.
ReadDark Mode: A Short History of Interface Colors
A non-comprehensive look at the history of "dark mode" in user interface design.
Read2020, In Review
Reflecting on 2020 and looking back on one year of blog posts.
ReadAutomatic Social Share Images
Generating social share images with a serverless function and headless browser
ReadInktober 2020
All of my Inktober drawings from October 2020.
ReadTransforming Markdown with Remark & Rehype
Writing custom plugins to give extra powers to Markdown syntax using the Unified ecosystem.
ReadSvelte, Sanity, and Severless Functions
Building a CRUD site to host color palettes using Svelte, Routify, Sanity, and Netlify Functions.
ReadBuilding a Component in Three Frameworks
Comparing and contrasting creating a basic widget in React, Svelte, and Vue
ReadThings Svelte and Sapper Can't Do (Yet)
Three big limitations I've discovered while working with Svelte and Sapper
ReadA Deep Dive into Sapper
Exploring some of the more esoteric details about Svelte and Sapper
ReadFighting with Git LFS
Lessons learned from using git-lfs (Git Large File Storage), which can be quite easy to mess up and equally as frustrating to fix.
ReadGetting Data In and Out of Gatsby
Using RSS and Webhooks to syndicate posts from one Gatsby site to another.
ReadScience, with Science Gothic
Science Gothic is a very cool variable font, but it is over one megabyte in size. I am testing and comparing the most efficient ways to load and style custom web fonts.
ReadRefactoring a Component for Accessibility
Refactoring a component to use an html5 <details> element instead of ARIA and JavaScript.
ReadTips & Tricks I've Learned About Gatsby with NetlifyCMS
Things I've learned about gatsby-config.js, gatsby-node.js, and NetlifyCMS
ReadStarting Fresh in 2020
A short history of my previous Gatsby site, and why I'm choosing to start over from scratch in the new decade.
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