Ann Arbor, MI developer and designer striving to make the internet better.
My friend, Kyle, needed a table for an upcoming performance art show related to playing and running tabletop games. He wanted a table that could act as a physical document of play. The table as a sort of participant in the games. After his shows he’ll be using it for running other games over the […]
Today was my first use of the new protected bike lanes on Williams Street. I picked it up at Thompson and took it all the way to Main Street and it was wonderful! I generally feel safe riding my bike in Ann Arbor and do so almost every weekday of the year (except for February, […]
Arguably the single most important part of any project that everyone skips is defining what makes a project successful. The Traps to Avoid Doing so focuses the project and, more importantly, will help you ignore three big traps: Taking on other people’s definitions of success. Never finishing. Grabbing onto tantalizing data that don’t actually support […]
This past week at the farmer’s market Cobblestone Farm was teaching kids traditional candle making. My daughter happily jumped in line and made two candles. Today I put together a few candle holders out of scrap wood in the shop: Walnut and Cherry from Urbanwood.
A question was asked in Workantile’s recommendation channel that resulted in slack telling notifying us that several people are typing: What’s your favorite Ann Arbor pizza? I was one of them because, dear reader, I have pizza opinions. Pizza Contains Multitudes There is no one Pizza. Instead, we have many many subclasses of food that […]
I needed to enqueue a handful of scripts and stylesheets in a WordPress theme and ran into much confusion between which functions to use to return what paths from the parent theme vs. the child theme. To save myself later here is the breakdown of when to use what. Basic gist is that “stylesheet” will […]
You should play The Quiet Year! If, at all possible though, you should not play The Quiet Year in only 1 hour. I was running this as part of an event and only had one hour so the constraints forced my hand somewhat. Here’s how I approached it: Each turn encompassed 3 weeks instead of […]
There are a million and one blog posts for “move from WordPress to Hugo!” out there. This is the opposite of that. Hugo is good I like Hugo a lot. If you need a static site generator I’d recommend it without reservation! Once I had it going it worked very well. I loved how fast […]
Made a marking knife! Not pictured was pretending to be a blacksmith with a propane torch. The blade was shaped from a used jigsaw blade following the instructions on the Lost Art Press Blog. Walnut and cherry from Urbanwood. Epoxy to connect it all up and finished with shellac. It ain’t perfect. It’s serviceable though! […]
Our kitchen peninsula was in dire need of some organization. We also had a blank wall directly above it so…shelves! All of the wood for this project came from Workantile’s storage room: pine slats from someone’s old ikea bed and shelves made from the Baltic birch plywood from an old phone booth project. The screws […]