Blog: Posted in 2020

• Learning Log, Dec 2020

  Dec 31, 2020 — More free time on staycation = more learning and making! Putting together a fiber crafts blog, learning 3D art, and studying the Japanese language.

• 2020 in Review

  Dec 27, 2020 — Noting the silver linings on a difficult year.

• Sticky CSS Grid Items

  Dec 15, 2020 — How to get position sticky working on a grid item without setting a hacky height.

• Seasonal Cleaning Vol II

  Dec 12, 2020 — Focused on improvements to my highlights minisite for the second iteration of my seasonal cleaning practice, including new content, pagination, and a favicon that can handle different color modes.

• Learning Log, Nov 2020

  Dec 01, 2020 — Converting the last couple projects from Jekyll to Eleventy and processing some open source feelings.

• Lefty Pen Test

  Nov 23, 2020 — I test out some of Jet Pens’ recommended pens for lefties, with fairly favorable results regarding smudging.

• Learning Log, Oct 2020

  Nov 05, 2020 — Books, more work on the soundboard, and a Saturday afternoon writing club.

• The Art of Brevity

  Oct 26, 2020 — Resources from the hive mind on writing with clarity and brevity.

• Learning Log, Sep 2020

  Oct 03, 2020 — Mostly just some links this month.

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  Microsoft Edge dev

  Styling for Windows high contrast with new standards for forced colors

  Sep 17, 2020 — Features like high contrast can help improve readability by enforcing a user’s required color scheme. Learn how browsers apply forced colors, how to optimize styles with new standards, and differences you can expect from legacy implementations.

• Learning Log, Aug 2020: 3D Art and Collaging with CSS Grid

  Sep 03, 2020 — I started Devon Ko’s 3D for Designers course, and gave my home page a fresh coat of paint.

• New Practice: Seasonal Cleaning

  Sep 01, 2020 — Starting a new habit of spend a week of personal project time on fixing issues in previously-shipped side projects, as opposed to building new things.

• Learning Log, Jul 2020: making moves

  Aug 03, 2020 — Coming out of a the-world-is-on-fire funk: moving neighborhoods, moving pixels around this ol’ website.

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  Microsoft Edge dev

  Reducing distractions with quiet notification requests

  Jul 23, 2020 — Many people find notification requests annoying or disruptive, unless they can clearly understand the value of notifications in their current context. Quiet notification requests in Microsoft Edge reduces such requests to a more subtle user interface (UI) treatment, so users can stay focused as they browse.

• Black. Lives. Matter.

  Jun 01, 2020 — Resources for those who want to end anti-black police brutality in the United States and support those who are suffering most right now.

• Presenting this week at Microsoft Build

  May 18, 2020 — The flagship developer conference goes online, and I’ll share out some updates from the Microsoft Edge team for web developers.

• Learning Log, Apr 2020: day by day

  May 03, 2020 — Trying to find solace in learning amidst the stress of the global pandemic.

• New project: Good Things, and randomization at build time

  Apr 27, 2020 — A new project listing out all the good things in life, and randomizing content on a static site at build time on Netlify.

• Learning Log, Mar 2020: the great indoors

  Apr 07, 2020 — How I’m staying busy in the first month of social quarantine—a learning log for the month of March.

• Fonts with open source licenses

  Mar 11, 2020 — Typefaces released with the SIL Open Font License (OFL), for use in your open source projects.

• Learning Log, Feb 2020: the Golden Triangle

  Mar 06, 2020 — A trip to India with loved ones, and long-overdue completion of a woven tapestry—learning log for the month of February.

• Learning Log, Jan 2020: routines and rhythm of business

  Feb 01, 2020 — Moving back from weeklies to monthlies, and some upcoming goals for February.

• Weeknotes #22: swapping out Jekyll for Eleventy

  Jan 06, 2020 — I decide to abandon a project, change tech stacks for my personal site, and learn some Hindi.

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