Solving Infuriating Mac Error Sounds
May 25, 2022 -Look. I’m not the most patient person. When my Mac started making the bonk/boop/beep sound with my Command+Ctrl+Down Arrow line-bubbling keyboard shortcut I started slowly... View Article
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Music as an analogy for complicating things
November 2, 2016 -I loved the post How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2016! There’s no hyper-engineering like in front-end web development. I think we can make an analogy with music. This... 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
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
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
Lorem Ipsum
August 23, 2013 -Lorem Ipsum is a common block of latin text used as placeholders in comps. This ironically is called “greeking”! During the design phase it’s often... View Article
A Call to Contributors
August 3, 2013 -A couple weeks ago CSS legend Harry Roberts passed out on stage at a web conference. He wrote about how this came to pass, and... View Article
Farewell Google Reader
March 14, 2013 -Just over a year ago I wrote a blog post called Web App Trust Issues. It was a paranoid, yet relatable post about me leaving... View Article
Crowd Sourcin’ Code!
October 9, 2012 -I have a fun idea! I want to build a webpage using only user submitted code / content. Here are some rules I’d like to... View Article
HTML5 Ain’t Changing
October 4, 2012 -Recently .net Magazine posted a very interesting article about the origin of some of the more famous structural HTML5 tags (eg. header, nav, section, etc).... View Article
GTA Conferences
April 21, 2012 -This is the time of year when Twitter gives me the conference itch! It seems every week there is some event going on directly relevant... View Article