One of the most important lessons I learned while building Gradient Magic into a product had nothing to do with technical choices. Instead, it had to do with something ...

Ever since deciding to put serious effort into my own website I’ve become fascinated with other developer blogs. It started as a search for design ideas, but gradually turned into a more holistic process that had ...

I just finished the book Refactoring UI, by Adam Wathan and Steve Schoger. Refactoring UI is a book of design ideas and strategies written for developers, with a focus on i...

How do you show error notifications from Vuex? As a state management library it shouldn’t have any role in the view of the application, that is, showing state to users. However, anyone who’s built a big enough ap...

When it came time to rebuild my personal site I knew I wanted to run it on a static site generator. There are innumerable benefits to this approach, including low maintenance overhead, lots of room for customizati...

I’m sick of constantly re-building my personal site. I’ve done it several times over the last few years, and it never seems to stick. First w/ hosted wordpress, then as a purely static site, then several more ver...

A short overview of how to use CSS gradients on your website. Gradients are a great option for neat background patterns without the overhead or size of images.

It’s okay if you don’t know a lot about CSS gradients. To someone new to CSS they can be daunting. Even as someone with 5+ years of development experience, I was a bit intimidated by gradients when I started lear...

This article is about “The Catlantic”, a website I built in spring 2014.  You wont find it in my project portfolio, for reasons that should become clear.

This is a post from when I was playing a lot of Dominon. I don’t play as much anymore, but I still love the game!

Last February I attended a Startup Weekend event for the first time. As an aspiring entrepreneur still trying to learn the ropes it was an incredibly valuable experie...