Sam's personal blog: recipes and musingshttp://snugug.com/http://snugug.com/musings/ai-can-make-mistakes/http://snugug.com/musings/ai-can-make-mistakes/Even in the world of AI agents, you still need experts guiding them because they're just probability machines.Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttp://snugug.com/musings/coding-was-never-the-job/http://snugug.com/musings/coding-was-never-the-job/Converging on an idea around what software engineering means in the world of AI coding tools.Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttp://snugug.com/musings/vibe-coding-vibes/http://snugug.com/musings/vibe-coding-vibes/As part of learning more about AI, I've tried vibe coding in some personal projects. It's been an interesting ride.Wed, 31 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMThttp://snugug.com/musings/the-last-spa-router-you-ll-need/http://snugug.com/musings/the-last-spa-router-you-ll-need/The Navigation API provides a standards-based way to build a client-side router that can be used with anything you desire to build your front-end in. I'll show you how I used it to rebuild the CMS for my photography site, and why the new Runes feature of Svelte 5, when combined with this, make for a truly killer combo.Mon, 23 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMThttp://snugug.com/musings/in-search-of-dynamic-range/http://snugug.com/musings/in-search-of-dynamic-range/Thoughts on my journey as a photographer and my search for dynamic range.Mon, 09 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMThttp://snugug.com/musings/yom-kippur-2024/http://snugug.com/musings/yom-kippur-2024/I was in Poland during Yom Kippur, and went to Auschwitz and Birkenau. These are my reflections on that trip. Holocaust trigger warning.Sat, 12 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMThttp://snugug.com/musings/strategy-team-culture-and-organizational-change/http://snugug.com/musings/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.Fri, 17 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMThttp://snugug.com/cookbook/brown-butter-sage-and-wild-mushroom-dressing/http://snugug.com/cookbook/brown-butter-sage-and-wild-mushroom-dressing/Tue, 31 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMThttp://snugug.com/musings/adaptable-components-with-css-style-queries/http://snugug.com/musings/adaptable-components-with-css-style-queries/Use CSS Style Queries to let components adapt to more scenarios than just container size or screen width.Tue, 04 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMThttp://snugug.com/musings/comparing-privacy-focused-analytics-tools/http://snugug.com/musings/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.Wed, 25 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMThttp://snugug.com/cookbook/tamago-style-egg-sandwiches/http://snugug.com/cookbook/tamago-style-egg-sandwiches/Sat, 14 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMThttp://snugug.com/musings/art-directed-images-with-css-container-queries/http://snugug.com/musings/art-directed-images-with-css-container-queries/How to art direct images with container queries, no JavaScript required.Fri, 06 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMThttp://snugug.com/musings/introducing-starchart-studio/http://snugug.com/musings/introducing-starchart-studio/Introducing Starchart Studio, a component story tool for island architectures, powered by AstroSun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMThttp://snugug.com/musings/sanity-astro-and-github-oh-my/http://snugug.com/musings/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.Fri, 25 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMThttp://snugug.com/musings/return-of-the-cms/http://snugug.com/musings/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.Mon, 07 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMThttp://snugug.com/musings/a-beginners-guide-to-diabetes/http://snugug.com/musings/a-beginners-guide-to-diabetes/My personal story about what I've learned over the past year since getting diagnosed with diabetes.Wed, 26 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMThttp://snugug.com/musings/eleventy-plus-vite/http://snugug.com/musings/eleventy-plus-vite/A pattern I've started using combining Eleventy and Vite.Thu, 13 May 2021 00:00:00 GMThttp://snugug.com/musings/book-recommendations/http://snugug.com/musings/book-recommendations/Books that I've read and plan on reading, and that I recommend you read too.Tue, 17 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMThttp://snugug.com/cookbook/split-pea-soup/http://snugug.com/cookbook/split-pea-soup/Sat, 01 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMThttp://snugug.com/cookbook/vegan-peanut-butter-chocolate-chunk-cookies/http://snugug.com/cookbook/vegan-peanut-butter-chocolate-chunk-cookies/Mon, 20 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMThttp://snugug.com/cookbook/fragrant-sticky-rice-yuzu-chicken/http://snugug.com/cookbook/fragrant-sticky-rice-yuzu-chicken/Sat, 07 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMThttp://snugug.com/cookbook/lobster-mac-and-cheese/http://snugug.com/cookbook/lobster-mac-and-cheese/Wed, 30 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMThttp://snugug.com/musings/cookbook/http://snugug.com/musings/cookbook/I've added a cookbook section to the site!Sun, 15 Sep 2019 00:00:00 GMThttp://snugug.com/cookbook/slow-scrambled-egg-toast/http://snugug.com/cookbook/slow-scrambled-egg-toast/Sat, 14 Sep 2019 00:00:00 GMThttp://snugug.com/musings/developing-on-chrome-os/http://snugug.com/musings/developing-on-chrome-os/After joining Google, I was given a Google Pixelbook as my main computer. This is my journey to get it set up for web developmentWed, 31 Oct 2018 00:00:00 GMThttp://snugug.com/musings/modern-cutting-the-mustard/http://snugug.com/musings/modern-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!Sun, 29 Jul 2018 00:00:00 GMThttp://snugug.com/musings/lighthouse-web-performance-architecture-and-you/http://snugug.com/musings/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.Wed, 07 Mar 2018 00:00:00 GMThttp://snugug.com/musings/a-recipe-for-documentation/http://snugug.com/musings/a-recipe-for-documentation/Technical documentation should be more like recipes in a cookbook.Mon, 01 May 2017 00:00:00 GMThttp://snugug.com/musings/saying-goodbye-to-singularity/http://snugug.com/musings/saying-goodbye-to-singularity/With a very heavy heart, today I am stopping further development on Singularity.Sun, 23 Apr 2017 00:00:00 GMThttp://snugug.com/musings/getting-started-with-grid/http://snugug.com/musings/getting-started-with-grid/CSS Grid is out! I've started playing it, here are my first thoughts.Wed, 22 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMThttp://snugug.com/musings/austin/http://snugug.com/musings/austin/I've moved to Austin and taken a new role at IBMTue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMThttp://snugug.com/musings/persona-alignment/http://snugug.com/musings/persona-alignment/Dungeons and Dragons character alignment, but to make user personasWed, 18 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMThttp://snugug.com/musings/armadillo/http://snugug.com/musings/armadillo/Armadillo 3.0 is out! It's faster, easier to maintain, and comes with service workers! Let's learn what Armadillo is!Sat, 31 Dec 2016 00:00:00 GMThttp://snugug.com/musings/performance-sketches/http://snugug.com/musings/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.Wed, 24 Jun 2015 00:00:00 GMThttp://snugug.com/musings/it-all-started-our-motion-designer/http://snugug.com/musings/it-all-started-our-motion-designer/Our team transformation all started with our motion designer…Sat, 06 Jun 2015 00:00:00 GMThttp://snugug.com/musings/dude-wheres-my-modal/http://snugug.com/musings/dude-wheres-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.Sun, 03 May 2015 00:00:00 GMThttp://snugug.com/musings/empathy-vs-understanding/http://snugug.com/musings/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.Mon, 06 Apr 2015 00:00:00 GMThttp://snugug.com/musings/bulletproof-combo-fixed-and-fluid-grids-css3-calc/http://snugug.com/musings/bulletproof-combo-fixed-and-fluid-grids-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.Fri, 17 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMThttp://snugug.com/musings/element-queries/http://snugug.com/musings/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.Mon, 11 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMThttp://snugug.com/musings/css-strategy/http://snugug.com/musings/css-strategy/My current thoughts on this subject have been codified in NorthSun, 28 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMThttp://snugug.com/musings/aurora-30-magic-birds-and-boars/http://snugug.com/musings/aurora-30-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.Sat, 04 May 2013 00:00:00 GMThttp://snugug.com/musings/do-you-believe-magic/http://snugug.com/musings/do-you-believe-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.Wed, 01 May 2013 00:00:00 GMThttp://snugug.com/musings/responsive-nirvana/http://snugug.com/musings/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).Fri, 26 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMThttp://snugug.com/musings/singularity-1-0/http://snugug.com/musings/singularity-1-0/I'm super excited to announce [Singularity 1.0](https://github.com/Team-Sass/Singularity)!Wed, 03 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMThttp://snugug.com/musings/measure-tester/http://snugug.com/musings/measure-tester/A tool to help measure your measure, helping you design for an ideal reading experience.Fri, 29 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMThttp://snugug.com/musings/debugging-sass-source-maps/http://snugug.com/musings/debugging-sass-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.Thu, 28 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMThttp://snugug.com/musings/amusing-analytics-december/http://snugug.com/musings/amusing-analytics-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.Sat, 12 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMThttp://snugug.com/musings/drupalcon-munich-presentation/http://snugug.com/musings/drupalcon-munich-presentation/The slides and video from my DrupalCon Munich presentation along with some links.Mon, 20 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMThttp://snugug.com/musings/override-theme-functions-drupal-7-module/http://snugug.com/musings/override-theme-functions-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!Sun, 05 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMThttp://snugug.com/musings/nyc-camp-presentation/http://snugug.com/musings/nyc-camp-presentation/The slides from my NYC Camp 2012 presentation along with some links.Sun, 22 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMThttp://snugug.com/musings/introducing-breakpoint-media-queries-made-easy/http://snugug.com/musings/introducing-breakpoint-media-queries-made-easy/Introducing Breakpoint, a Sass extension for making writing and maintaining media queries a breeze.Wed, 27 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMThttp://snugug.com/musings/progressive-enhancement-code-pattern-using-sass-and-modernizr/http://snugug.com/musings/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.Mon, 25 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMThttp://snugug.com/musings/principles-responsive-web-design/http://snugug.com/musings/principles-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.Thu, 24 May 2012 00:00:00 GMThttp://snugug.com/musings/illustrator-to-raphael-js-guide/http://snugug.com/musings/illustrator-to-raphael-js-guide/A guide on moving SVGs created in Illustrator to Raphaël, a JavaScript SVG drawing library.Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT