In search of dynamic range
Thoughts on my journey as a photographer and my search for dynamic range.
Posts
2024
2023
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Strategy, Team Culture, and Organizational Change
How strategy, culture, and organizational change influence each other based on a number of influential books I've read and my lived experience working through, teaching, and helping lead change initiatives.
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Adaptable Components with CSS Style Queries
Use CSS Style Queries to let components adapt to more scenarios than just container size or screen width.
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Comparing Privacy-Focused Analytics Tools
A head-to-head-to-head comparison of Cloudflare Web Analytics, Plausible, and Fathom, three privacy-preserving analytics solutions, after running each on my site for a week.
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Art Directed Images with CSS Container Queries
How to art direct images with container queries, no JavaScript required.
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Introducing Starchart Studio
Introducing Starchart Studio, a component story tool for island architectures, powered by Astro
2022
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Sanity, Astro, and GitHub Oh My!
Why I chose Sanity and Astro for my site rebuild, and how I got continuous deployment working for both using GitHub Actions from a monorepo-like setup.
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Return of the CMS
After rebuilding my blog on a new generation headless CMS, I've rethought whether flat Markdown files in site code is worth the complexity, especially for JAMStack sites.
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A Beginner's Guide to Diabetes
My personal story about what I've learned over the past year since getting diagnosed with diabetes.
2021
2020
2019
2018
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Setting up a Chrome OS Development Environment
After joining Google, I was given a Google Pixelbook as my main computer. This is my journey to get it set up for web development
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A Modern Take on Cutting the Mustard
By taking advantage of JavaScript module support, we can update the Cutting the Mustard progressive enhancement technique to allow for modern JavaScript syntaxes and features!
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Lighthouse, Web Performance, Architecture, And You
A primer on how the performance auditing tool Lighthouse works, thoughts on web performance and was of improving it, and how the two can be used as a basis for architectural discussions.
2017
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A Recipe for Documentation
Technical documentation should be more like recipes in a cookbook.
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Saying Goodbye to Singularity
With a very heavy heart, today I am stopping further development on Singularity.
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Getting Started with Grid
CSS Grid is out! I've started playing it, here are my first thoughts.
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Austin
I've moved to Austin and taken a new role at IBM
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Persona Alignment
Dungeons and Dragons character alignment, but to make user personas
2016
2015
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Performance Sketches
Creating and enforcing performance budgets are hard to begin with, but getting everyone to understand the impact of their choices on the performance of a project can be doubly so. Having a way to "sketch" performance can help onboard new team members to the concept of performance budgets.
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It all started with our motion designer.
Our team transformation all started with our motion designer…
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Dude, Where's My Modal?
Modals. Popups. Overlays. Dialog Boxes. No matter what you call them; ugh. I can't even. If I were being gracious, I'd say that nine times out of ten, modals are the lazy way out of solving a hard (or sometimes not so hard) design or development problem. We should stop doing that.
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Empathy vs Understanding
In order to solve the problems of our users or to work better with each other, we need both empathy *and* understanding.
2014
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Bulletproof Combo Fixed and Fluid Grids with CSS3 Calc
CSS3 Calc can be used to do all sorts of neat things, including creating some fantastic advanced responsive grids. Oh yah, and a new Singularity output style to support it.
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CSS Strategy
My current thoughts on this subject have been codified in North
2013
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Element Queries
When building responsive sites, especially style and component guide driven responsive sites, being able to query an item's width instead of the viewport is invaluable for re-usability. While we don't have them natively, we can emulate them with JavaScript.
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Debugging Sass with Source Maps
One of the super exciting features in Sass 3.3, currently in development, is the introduction of native Source Maps as a successor to Sass Debug Info. Working Source Map reading for Sass in Google Chrome Canary means this is a real debugging option you can start looking at today.
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Aurora 3.0 - Magic Birds and Boars
I'm excited to announce the official release of Aurora 3.0! Ian and I have been worked hard to build out a base theme that truly is designed around the best tools and techniques available for front end development today.
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Do You Believe in Magic?
Today I'm excited to announce Magic, a first-of-its-kind module for Drupal designed to integrate advanced theme development settings into any theme.
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Responsive Nirvana
While they've been soft launched for a few weeks now, I'm crazy excited to announce that we've finally, officially, launched [Singularity 1.0](https://github.com/Team-Sass/Singularity) and [Breakpoint 2.0](https://github.com/team-sass/breakpoint).
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Singularity 1.0
I'm super excited to announce [Singularity 1.0](https://github.com/Team-Sass/Singularity)!
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Measure Tester
A tool to help measure your measure, helping you design for an ideal reading experience.
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Amusing Analytics for December
Just decided to take a look at my analytics for the month of December, and I thought they were amusing, so I've decided to share.
2012
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DrupalCon Munich Presentation
The slides and video from my DrupalCon Munich presentation along with some links.
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Override Theme Functions from Drupal 7 Module
Ever need to really override a core or contrib module's theme output? You won't believe what you can do with this one weird hook!
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NYC Camp Presentation
The slides from my NYC Camp 2012 presentation along with some links.
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Introducing Breakpoint: Media Queries Made Easy
Introducing Breakpoint, a Sass extension for making writing and maintaining media queries a breeze.
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Progressive Enhancement Code Pattern Using Sass and Modernizr
Designing your websites in a progressive way is one of the best and easiest ways to ensure that a user coming to your site, no matter the way they access it, is going to be able to use your website.
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Principles of Responsive Web Design
I've spent almost the last year learning about and really digging into responsive Web design and I've gotta say, there are very few things that excite me more in front end development today. It is the beginning of a new era of the Web.