Writing tagged with #Public Learning
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CSS Architecture Archeology
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In web development, one of the most crucial aspects of creating efficient and maintainable CSS is the ability to reduce code duplication and establish a reliable system of reuse. This approach not only streamlines the development process but also enhances the overall performance and scalability of w
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Site Redesign Retrospective
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When I migrated my site from Eleventy to Astro I was more concerned with making sure everything was functional. The overall design of this site has been something that has bugged me for the last 8 months; the blue and gold didn’t really feel like me, it was more a placeholder than anything else. I w
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Product Discovery Toolkit
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In Product-Led organizations discovery is critical to understanding what users need and determining the right things to build. There are plenty of tools at our disposal to conduct discovery. In this post I want to highlight a few mentioned in Marty Cagan’s Inspired. What is Product Discovery? Before
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Learning through Teaching
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Did you know that the DOM (Document Object Model) defines the web as objects? Or that this representation of web pages is object-oriented so that it can be modified by scripting languages? While these may seem like basic ideas it’s always interesting to dig into the details of the web that we work i
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It's Autism Acceptance Month
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import PostLink from "@components/PostLink.astro"; In case you didn't know, April is Autism Acceptance Month. In this month we take time to recognize and celebrate the unique qualities and differences that make all of us who we are. No two humans are the same, and rather than look as those
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March 31st, Q1 Update
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Happy Easter! Can you believe March is over already? With the month coming to a close we’re officially 3 months into the year and Q1 is over, time to do a check in on goals, progress, and life. Writing I’ve managed to keep up with my desired 1 post a week. While some weeks are harder than others, I
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Taking Astro’s Starlight for a spin: Design System Documentation
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This past week I spent some time exploring using Starlight as a potential replatform for our design system documentation. The major reason I was drawn to starlight is that because it’s built atop Astro, it has support for all of the major players in the UI framework market. Our current system is bui
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Managing Change in your Design System: Workflows and Change Control at Enterprise Scale
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This past week Knapsack held a session with Nathan Curtis all about managing change in a design system. I took some notes on things I thought were interesting, figured it be worth sharing them here as well. How do I make this [Design Systems] a priority for my organization? Hitching your Wagon Often
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Goals for 2024
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As this year comes to an end and we begin looking into the next one I’ve decided to publish my goals for the next year in a hope that this will help keep my accountable to reaching them. Visit Scotland We’ve planned a trip for this fall to visit England Scotland and Ireland. This is one of our major
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2023 in Review
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One Post a Week Back in September I set a challenge for myself to try and write one blog post a week through the end of the year. I figured, 7 days to write one single post? Peace of cake. Turns out that writing is a lot harder than I thought. I managed do to it though, and it’s something I plan on
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Taking off with Astro
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It's been about 3 years since I moved this site over to 11ty (Eleventy), and it's been a great ride. I still think 11ty is a fantastic static site generator, but I wanted to try out some new front-end frameworks and I feel like a personal website is always the playground to learn new things. The two
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Learning IndieWeb with Apple Annie
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I’ve been wanting to learn more about indieweb tech and how to incorporate more if it into my site. This past week Anne over at Apple Annie’s shared a post collecting her recent writing about her own indieweb adventures using indiewebify.me I plan on reading and learning from these over the next few
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Uses and Now
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Decided to jump on the /uses and /now bandwagons. What the heck are /uses and /now? From my own personal interpretations both of these ideas, pages, and products feel like they fall squarely into IndieWeb territory. They’re small ways you can share interesting information about yourself on your own
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Learning Grid Thanks to Codepen Challenges
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This past week I partook in my very first Codepen Challenge. This month’s Codepen challenge is Style Trends. It’s an interesting “meta-challenge” where every week the HTML template provided is exactly the same and you need to create a unique design that matches the theme of the week. This past week
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Culture Eats Strategy
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Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast This famous quote from Peter Drucker has popped up a few times of the past couple weeks for me. We've been working on ways to improve our processes and strategy for design and how we work with other teams within our organization. I've spent countless hours of th
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Using Block Quotes for Social Embeds
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import { Picture } from "astro:assets"; import twitter from "@images/writing/social-block-message/twitter.png"; import mastodon from "@images/writing/social-block-message/mastodon.png"; Back at it again, Chris and Dave on the Shoptalk Show (ep. 590) mouth-blogged the id
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Why I'm Not an Accessibility Expert
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This past weekend Dave Rupert put out a blog post talking about being publicly shamed for having poor accessibility. In his closing thoughts he talks about how; despite his growing knowledge and experience designing accessible products, he stills finds “creating end-to-end accessible experiences dif
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Rendezvous with Cassidoo Newsletter 9/18 Interview Question
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Here's my answer to the Sept. 18th Rendezvous with Cassidoo newsletter interview question. It was a fun little coding challenge. It's a little more verbose than needed, but I liked the idea of calling out and explicitly naming the variables so that other people could follow the logic. I also adding