The Four Day Week
November 25, 2018 -In 2010 I began to dream about working a four day week. “What could be better than long weekends every week!?” I would ask my wife. At... View Article
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Ads vs. Snark: Ad blocking for the sympathetic web developer
January 23, 2017 -I started using an ad blocker a couple years ago. While I like to experience the web in the most common way that an average... View Article
New Tradition: Annual reading of A Christmas Carol
December 22, 2016 -This week I read the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol. This book is out of copyright, and you can get a digital copy free here.... View Article
Literary Goldfish: Examining Spam Email 2006 & 2016
December 7, 2016 -In 2006 there was an era when spam seemed to have been written by infinite monkeys with infinite typewriters. It caught my attention since there... View Article
New December’s Resolutions
December 3, 2016 -Nothing’s ever perfect; so what could be better than a time for resolving to improve? Bring on the new year. I love a new year’s... View Article
Mekorama
November 28, 2016 -I don’t usually game on my phone, but last weekend when a battle with a cold kept me stuck on the couch I made an... View Article
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October 26, 2016 -It’s website refresh day for ArleyM.com! I love the old adage about the mechanic’s car being a clunker. It’s true of every developer and designer... View Article
Expensive Rendering, or How to make your MacBook fan scream
August 16, 2016 -Recently I made a dangerous wager with a colleague: If he could show up to work on time 10 times in a row I would... View Article
WordCamp Hamilton – Accessibility Talk
June 3, 2016 -This weekend I’m speaking at WordCamp Hamilton on Web Accessibility! Slides are online here: arleym.com/a11y More notes to come!
SMOOCHY Methodology Explained
May 11, 2016 -A couple years ago I commented on a post about Using Object Oriented CSS with Sass on The Sass Way, commenting that at Carpages.ca we use a mash-up methodology... View Article
Window Managers
April 14, 2016 -Workflow and simple productivity tools were a couple fascinations of 2015. I still plan to write about it in some detail, but have shared here... View Article
DeGagne Hyundai
December 15, 2015 -Our team recently launched the DeGagne Hyundai website and I wanted to share one of the design features I think looks pretty cool.
WordPress.com Desktop Client
November 24, 2015 -Yesterday WordPress announced there is a new WP client. I’m publishing this from it!
Troubleshooting Windows 10 VM
September 23, 2015 -I had an issue where the Virtual Box VM for Windows 10 wouldn’t unzip on my Mac. Advice that worked for me came from Twitter:... View Article
Pre Element use-case: brilliant or hacky?
September 10, 2015 -Twice in the past month I have come across issues where the data coming to me from a database contains useful whitespace, but no HTML.... View Article
Solving a browser Font issue
September 4, 2015 -I’ve had an issue with fonts messing up in my browser. I thought it was just me! This has happened before, like when a client sent... View Article
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.
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
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