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Life 2020: A Year To Learn From and Grow
On Christmas Eve, I sat down with my wife, Meghan, to join a Zoom call with extended family. We normally see these faces on the[…]
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Life The Year of “I Don’t Know”
“Today is my birthday…and…I’m getting drunker.” – Darrell Hammond, A&E Biography of Tiger Woods on SNL On this day last year, I was sitting at[…]
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Life 9 Months of Hell
The past 9 months of my life have been hell. I’m not talking about the “oh this thing is bad for a second” kind of[…]
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Web Design/Development Linking InVision’s DSM with React
Two of the hottest things in web design and design systems: React and InVision’s Design System Manager (DSM). Separately these are cool, but what if[…]
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Web Design/Development Why Being Too Polite in Web Design Is a Bad Thing…
“You’re too polite.” These are words that were said to me the other day about my work by my frequent collaborator and brilliant designer, Dan[…]
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Web Design/Development Introducing Style Guide Guide, Gatsby Edition!
Brad Frost and I are happy to introduce to the world a new React-based Style Guide Guide, Gatsby Edition! Brad and I built the design system reference site boilerplate Style[…]
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Life 30 Years of Living, 30 Items of Lessons Learned
30 things I have learned in the exactly 30 years I have lived: Good family and friends makes a big difference Laugh every goddamn day[…]
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Life Ode To Gramps
“Doc” “Bob” “Uncle Bob” “Dad” “Grandpa” To me and many of his other grandchildren: “Gramps.” 7 children. 13 grandchildren. 10 great-grandchildren and soon to be[…]
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Web Design/Development 2017 Web Roundup, Gratitude, and Looking Ahead
On a macroscopic level, 2017 was not the most favorable year in terms of morality and humanity in my opinion. However, I try to look[…]
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Web Design/Development 2 Frontend Designers. 12 Days. 1 Website. How We Did It
Stock up on La Croix. Make sure another big project is going on to make things even more challenging Make a great website using guidelines we[…]