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Recent Reading: Heaters From Friends & Brighter Minds Than Mine

Blogroll of posts I’ve recently read and recommend. You can view the full list or subscribe to this feed via RSS.

Every site needs a Links Page / Why linking matters

Melonking
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if I’m in therapy and you’re in therapy...then who's driving this societal collapse

mamoudou n’diaye
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A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden

Maggie Appleton
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Don't Use JS for That: Moving Features to CSS and HTML

Kilian Valkhof
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opening yourself to support

Spencer Chang
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A Poem That’s Like a Perfect First Date

A.O. Scott
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Medium-Length Blog Posts & Tutorials

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was getting us to use the word “blog” in everyday conversation. You can subscribe to this feed via RSS.

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html | css | javascript | rants

How To Make a Website

15 minute read
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bash | configuration | powerusers

How I Set Up A New Laptop

5 minute read
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tutorial
math | javascript

How To Map A Number Between Two Ranges

5 minute read
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bash

A One-Liner For Freeing Ports on OS X

3 minute read
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tutorial
css | css variables | aspect-ratio | object-fit

Using Focal Points, Aspect Ratio & Object-Fit To Crop Images Correctly

5 minute read
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journal
rants

On Leaving New York City

9 minute read
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journal
rants | design

Can You Be A Designer If You Have No Training?

5 minute read
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tutorial
svg | filters | html | css

How To Distort Text With SVG Filters

6 minute read
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tutorial
contentful | eleventy | static site generation

How To Use Contentful With Eleventy

11 minute read
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vue | eleventy | static site generation

How To Use Vue To Template Your Eleventy Projects

4 minute read
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journal
rants | grief

What To Say When You Don't Know What To Say

4 minute read
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tutorial
netlify | serverless | lambda | node.js

How To Use The Spotify API and Netlify Functions To Build A “Now Playing” Widget

15 minute read
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design systems | css | scss

Naming Variables In Style Code

4 minute read
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journal
rants | politics

Headless CMS Solutions That Aren’t Statamic (Lol)

4 minute read
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tutorial
variable fonts | web fonts

How To Convert Variable TTF Font Files to WOFF2

2 minute read
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journal
rants | professional development

2019: Year in review

8 minute read
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journal
rants | politics

Let’s Talk About Banning Political Ads On Twitter

4 minute read
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tutorial
vue.js | interaction | css | css grid

How To Make an Animated Interactive Vue.js Slider

20 minute read
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tooling

Uses

3 minute read
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ux

Bad UX In Everyday Life: Kitchen Nightmares

4 minute read
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agile | industry | software dev

Agile For The Rest of Us

7 minute read
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Code Snippets and Brave Beginnings of Ideas

Usually one-liners that don't need a whole blog post tutorial breaking them down. Read more of these on the notes page.

string interpolation | jokes that didn’t land

I Know About The Date In The Footer

1 minute read
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code snippet | json | vscode

Hinting & autocompletion for JSON in VS Code

5 minute read
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code snippet | json | vscode

Set the default language for a file extension in VS Code

1 minute read
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code snippet | css

Animated link underlines with skip-ink effect

1 minute read
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