Focus & Pomodoro
June 9, 2015 -I thought I’d share a small change I’m trying with work to hopefully improve my focus, speed, and quality of work.
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Working at Carpages!
May 2, 2015 -For just over a year now I’ve been working as a front-end developer at Carpages.ca. With the new job came several other life upgrades. Bring on the... View Article
WWJNTOOHE (What Would Jesus Name This Object Oriented HTML Element)?
April 6, 2015 -I love CSS, and I really love OOCSS. To me being Object Oriented means two things: breaking down patterns, and using a clear easy-to-adopt naming... View Article
Writing for the web industry
April 5, 2015 -I’ve had the opportunity to write for a few notable industry journals, and I’ve been asked a number of times how this came to be... View Article
Colemak for kids
February 16, 2015 -I did a bunch of keyboard layout research this weekend. It’s a simple fact that my kids are going to be nerds; I’m not sure what... View Article
Magic Transfer Protocol!
January 14, 2015 -mtp:// is my new favourite protocol. I use it all the time; specifically when explaining how modern web development tools work.
Embrace your Bounce Rate
October 24, 2014 -Yesterday I had a fresh mind-blowing thought about Bounce Rates. Google defines a website Bounce as: “the percentage of visits in which users view only... View Article
FITC Web Unleashed 2014
October 15, 2014 -Last month I attended the FITC conference in Toronto. My biggest take-away was about Web Components (using the Polymer polyfill for now). HTML includes will be... View Article
Persuade
September 26, 2014 -My colleague here says that I have a way of trying to persuading people that is unique. He says I’ll give a short synopsis of my... View Article
B+
September 7, 2014 -There are two sides of me that work on making websites: The perfectionist that wants every single detail polished before another human sees it, and... View Article
Romania.
July 17, 2014 -In a few days I’m going to Romania as a part of a short mission trip with a team from my church (Harvest Bible Chapel... View Article
Build it yourself.
July 5, 2014 -CSS Frameworks are amazing. The world has enough of them – but you should still make one more. If you write CSS for a living I’m... View Article
ASCII Art in Sublime
June 27, 2014 -Yesterday @SublimeTxtTips tweeted a link to a handy way to get around stylesheets. I was stunned to see it was a post I wrote last year. I actually... View Article
Designer vs. Terminal
June 15, 2014 -It was 2010. It was the first time I would square off against the dreaded terminal. I was a web designer at an agency, and... View Article
Farewell to Thrillworks
April 19, 2014 -A week ago was my last day at Thrillworks! It was a bittersweet day. I’ve loved my time at this agency, and they truly have... View Article
Falling in love with CodePen
April 19, 2014 -Typically the best learnings I’ve had in front end development start with a question, and end with me in raw HTML experimenting. Recently I’ve been... View Article
The best game you didn’t realize is installed on your phone
April 19, 2014 -Not too long ago I wrote a guest post on my brother’s leisure blog; Leisurebeam. It’s about using the Stop watch app on most smartphones... View Article
Annual Troll Day
March 13, 2014 -Let’s face it: as an entire community online we all have to deal with trolls. I propose that once a year we embrace this sub-culture... View Article
Adding a Time Stamp to preprocessed stylesheets
March 7, 2014 -A couple weeks ago I started hunting the Internet for a way to add a timestamp to my Sass compiled CSS. I’m currently collaborating with... View Article
Instant Click: Optimistic Preload
February 19, 2014 -Instant Click is a JS library that optimistically preloads pages when hovering the links. This is such a brilliant way to speed up a site’s... View Article