Posts Archive

Here's a hodge-podge of posts from my occasional attempts over the years to maintain a blog.

1. Reading Log, Week 3

   It's sweeps week, with guest stars Adrienne Rich and Ernest Hemingway.

2. A short story

   An old story I found from 2012 about nothing at all.

3. Reading Log, Week 2

   As Bob Pollard and Tobin Sprout sang, you gotta keep it in motion.

4. Okay, Mr. Bradbury

   Doomscrolling finally pays off.

5. JS Date methods

   Making sense of the Date object and its common methods in JS..

6. It's the little things.

   In which I learn a few valuable lessons from a file consisting of two characters.

7. Understanding h-cards

   Note to self on h-cards and beginning to make sense of their class names.

8. Favicons in root with Eleventy

   A simple way to get any and all favicon variations in root for an Eleventy site.

9. Eternal Recurrence

   Your going to forget things and make mistakes and be mortified with your own failings. So it goes.

10. Scratch that Itch

    This is about giving kids the freedom to explore and experiment in Scratch, and knowing when to step in and nudge them past frustration, or give a lasting insight into good coding practice.

11. Build Your Own TACO

    A new mnemonic for organizing information

12. Relative Font Weights Considered Harmful

    The bolder and lighter keywords may not work the way you expect, so use them wisely, if at all.

13. Falsy Values are N0 FUN!

    A simple mnemonic device to remember falsy values in JavaScript.

14. Relative URLs Demystified

    Explaining the meaning of slashes and dots in various combinations

15. In Praise of Weird Stuff

    In which I remember how being the weird one in the family helped me become a little more weird.

16. Using the Wordnik API

    Creating a shell function to get quick dictionary definitions on the command line, because, why not?

17. Ch-Ch-Changes

    Changing your shell to fish and back.

18. A Real Hero for the 90s

    In 1992 I jumped on the comics bandwagon and co-created a skateboarding superhero. What might have been?

19. Bear's Big Day

    A comic inspired by a day of drawing with my kid.

20. Number Ones — 1976

    Radio Ethiopia by the Patti Smith Group was the best album of the bicentennial

21. An Acrostic Movie List

    My name spells trouble, and also a pretty great collection of movies.

22. People Not To Be at Tech Conferences

    (or Anywhere Else)

23. Bundle Up Your Inbox to Be a Better Dev

    Seven of the Best Newsletters for Front End Folks

24. Class Struggle in the 21st Century

    An argument on the losing side, against presentational class names.

25. You're Saying It Wrong

    Because my opinions are the best opinions

26. Action Movie One Liners

    Get bent!

27. Thirteen

    In the McDonald's parking lot we saw a woman cornered in a phone booth by a large, angry man. A small crowd of twenty-somethings sat comfortably nearby on parking bumpers as if they were watching Shakespeare in the Park.

28. Excerpt From Plateau

    An unfinished YA novel I may finish someday

29. The Syntax of Panels in Narrative Comics

    Thoughts on making comics, written for a friend.

30. That Time I Almost Killed a Kid

    Posting as a form of self-medication.