Den McHenry

Front End Developer. Cartoonist. Dad of the Year.

I'm Dennis McHenry, but you can call me Den. I'm a front end developer with a background in drawing, design, and dead languages. I used to teach Latin and blog about ancient stuff, but now I make websites and draw comics for my kids and coworkers.

Where you can find me around the web

Here are some blog posts

28 Aug 2018 Relative Font Weights Considered Harmful
02 Apr 2018 Relative URLs Demystified
Explaining the meaning of slashes and dots in various combinations
12 Mar 2018 A Letter From Den
20 Feb 2018 Using the Wordnik API
Creating a shell function to get quick dictionary definitions on the command line, because, why not?
13 Feb 2018 Ch-Ch-Changes
Changing your shell to fish and back.
28 Jan 2018 A Real Hero for the 90s
In 1992 I jumped on the comics bandwagon and co-created a skateboarding superhero. What might have been?
17 Jan 2018 Bear's Big Day
09 Jan 2018 Number Ones — 1976
Radio Ethiopia by the Patti Smith Group was the best album of the bicentennial
08 Jan 2018 An Acrostic Movie List
My name spells trouble, and also a pretty great collection of movies.
12 Sep 2016 People Not To Be at Tech Conferences
(or Anywhere Else)
13 Feb 2016 Bundle Up Your Inbox to Be a Better Dev
Seven of the Best Newsletters for Front End Folks
30 Dec 2015 Class Struggle in the 21st Century
24 Oct 2015 You're Saying It Wrong
Because my opinions are the best opinions
20 Jun 2015 Action Movie One Liners
25 May 2014 Thirteen
23 Oct 2013 Excerpt From Plateau
An unfinished YA novel I may finish someday
23 Sep 2013 The Syntax of Panels in Narrative Comics
21 Sep 2013 That Time I Almost Killed a Kid