Work
Here are a few of my favorite projects:
| Torque Design System |
| The Incomparable |
| UXcellence |
| Virginia Dept of Transportation |
| GameSkinny |
| VCU FileDrop |
Writing
About design, development, and other whims.
On ...
| Jul 27, 2019 | Make Time to Play: How Breaks, Hobbies, and Boredom Can Improve Creativity |
| Jun 27, 2019 | Automation for Designers: Starting with Email, Photoshop, and Sketch |
| Jun 12, 2019 | How to Build a Handy Portfolio Filter |
| May 29, 2019 | Automation for Designers: An Introduction |
| May 22, 2019 | Nice Touch: Sharing Podcast Clips in Overcast |
| Mar 11, 2019 | Organizing Design Work for Your Team (and Your Future Self) |
A Bite of the Big Apple
We took a very quick trip to a very big city..
Apr 13, 2025
Coping Through Cozy Pursuits
On the relaxing hobbies that help in the hard times.
Mar 24, 2025
2025 Theme: Revive
All about restoring life, joy, and health after a hard year.
Feb 14, 2025
Hello Kaladin
Say hello to the furriest new addition to the family..
Feb 7, 2025
On Blogging
Answering the challenge on how and why I blog.
Feb 5, 2025
2024 in Review
Only a month late, because life keeps happening..
Feb 4, 2025
Read my journal
Sweet Links
Helpful tools, techniques, & things made by others
| View transitions: Handling aspect ratio changes. |
| A great overview on how to better handle wonky view transitions |
| Hacking with Swift. |
| Tons of tutorials to learn app development with UIKit and SwiftUI |
| Learn to Build Components That Work Anywhere. |
| A free roadmap for learning web components |
| Custom Top and Bottom CSS Container Masks. |
| The handy CSS technique to use custom SVG shapes for containers |
| SVG Shape Dividers. |
| A variety of SVG angles, curves and waves to make transitions between page sections less blocky |
| Robust Client-Side JavaScript. |
| A free online book and ebook on writing better Javascript |
| Science Gothic. |
| A lovely, blocky variable font in the style of Bank Gothic with several different variables to adjust |
| Web Performance Guide. |
| Great intro to web performance metrics, techniques, and tools |
| Awesome Standalones. |
| A curated list from Dave Rupert of awesome framework-agnostic standalone web components |
| Archives.design. |
| A digital archive of graphic design related items available on the Internet Archive |
| The Magic of Clip Path. |
| A great deep dive into clip-path and some of the cool things you can do with it |
| Emoji Picker Element. |
| A lightweight emoji picker web component for the modern web |
Recent diversions
| 4 stars. | I've been curious about the games but never played them. Loved this enough that I might give them a go. |
| 5 stars. | We've loved the theatrical musical for almost two decades, and this adaptation was just as lovely and fun. |
| 4 stars. | Finally got on the Murderbot train, and what a ride! Can't wait to read the rest of the series. |
| 5 stars. | A wonderful conclusion to Becky Chambers' Wayfarers series. What a beautiful, hopeful series of stories. |
| 5 stars. | How do you close out a series of five epic books? That's how. Holy moly. |
| 4 stars. | Perhaps my least favorite of the Wayfarers series, and I still thoroughly enjoyed it. |
| 5 stars. | A retired pirate brings her crew back together for an adventure with the supernatural. Loved it! |
| 5 stars. | Great characters and world building in a story that slowly simmers to a boil. |
| 3 stars. | Shades of Crichton in a story on consciousness, artificial or otherwise. Interesting concepts, but felt unfinished. |
| 5 stars. | What if our dreams shaped reality? Deeply thought-provoking and at the same time page-turning. |
| 4 stars. | Very entertaining mash-up of spy craft and science fiction, I'm excited to read the rest of this spy-fi series. |
| 5 stars. | A fascinating sci-fi epic on evolution and interspecies interactions, with amazing world building. |
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