I wrote one of these last year and found that it sparked some good conversations and also that I checked it throughout the year to remember what the heck I played in 2016. Always blog so you can remember it later. In 2017 my wife and I bought a house and our baby became a […]
Upgrading the Site to use CSS Grid
A few months ago I wrote a blog post about how amazing CSS Grid is and how I think it’s the future. And then proceeded to not actually update my personal site to use CSS Grid for 3 months. I finally got to working on that a few weeks ago, then ran into hugo version […]
Royal Emotional Mirror
The “Royal Emotional Mirror” technique is when a brand refers to it in the second person plural while reflecting back the emotional state of the customer on social media. Royal: think the “royal we”. A distant familiarity. Emotional: focused on emotional states (happy, sad, etc.)rather than facts Mirror: generally repeats the emotion of the person […]
How I Spent My Friday Night, or Why Framerate is the Wrong Choice for Managing Time-based Animations, Actions, and Effects
Of the bugs I have written a lot the one that keeps biting me is improperly locking an animation, effect, or action to the framerate of the game rather than to an elapsed time on a clock. You can never depend on your game running at a specific and consistent framerate across every device it’ll […]
DIY Discovery Tower for Under $50
One thing about toddlers is that they want to see whatever it is you’re doing up there. This leads to plaintive pleadings for “up, up, up, up, up” whenever we are doing anything in the kitchen. We needed a solution to this that didn’t devolve into ignoring her until we finally caved and picked her […]
Tools for Diagnosing Domain Name Issues
Oftentimes when inheriting a web project you also inherit myriad domain name related issues. And, as always, the command line is your friend for finding quick information associated with that domain name. Here’s a few tools I’ve been using a lot lately: Whois lookup A simple whois lookup will give you basic information on a […]
CSS Grid is Good
The short version of this post is that CSS Grid has me excited about the prospects of web layouts again. From here on if I have the option to use CSS Grid I’ll be using it. Go to Rachel Andrew’s fantastic Grid By Example site and do some examples. Longer Version This all kicked off […]
A2 Local Politics: In Which I Link to a Sports Blog
A2 local politics filter: I really liked this piece by MGoBlog about the upcoming election. Been thinking about this quote for the past day: “Denying the fact that Ann Arbor will change with weak appeals to parking, traffic, and floodplain development is pure NIMBYism and should be rejected out of hand. Keeping Ann Arbor “funky” […]
Fitting a Stove in a 2003 Honda CRV
Yes, a standard issue stove (or an oven or a range depending on what you want to call it) can fit in a 2nd Generation 2003 Honda CRV if you put the seats down and finagle it a bit. If your car is somehow magically clean too you could probably put the seats all the […]
Paint Colors
The color palete for our new house: