Archive

• Final Fetch

  February 15, 2021

  Oh boy, I had to make today's code tinkering rather troublesome. I think it turned out decent though. I wanted to work with Fetch API and use it to load data from my Treehouse profile into a page. I decided to display it as if I was a character in the Famicom/NES game, Final Fantasy. Click the update info button to load information from my profile into the page.

• Flexbox and SVG traffic light

  February 14, 2021

  I learned about using the currentcolor keyword within SVG. It's a pretty handy keyword that allows you to pass color values from CSS into paths into SVG. I still have more to learn about it and its best uses, but it was neat to learn about it.

• Spinning Record

  February 13, 2021

  I've had a bit of headache while working on today's bit of coding. After spending some time learning about the dialog element, I was thinking about making something with that. However, it's not currently a fully supported standard and requires a polyfill to work across all browsers. So, I went back through some previous coding practice, and decided I'd try to animate a conic gradient. It did not go as easily as I hoped, but I have something that looks like a spinning record now. Actually it looks more like a radar display.

• Palindrome flip

  February 12, 2021

  Happy Lunar New Year to all! Today I wanted to play with a bit of DOM manipulation and flip today's date since it is a palindrome. This was fun to make.

• Quiz Prototype

  February 11, 2021

  I've been thinking about building an online vocabulary quiz for the students that my wife and I teach English to every once in a while. So I built my first prototype. This was an interesting exercise and I feel like I will be able build out a viable version with a couple of more hours of work.

• Playing with clip-path and an orange cat

  February 10, 2021

  Today I wanted to work more with using SVGs within the clip-path property. I spotted this cat earlier today while out for a walk. It was a bit shy, but I got a few good pictures of it. An unfortunate thing I just learned after creating this post is the path doesn't quite fit within the current layout (as of today, 2021/2/10) of these code posts, but hopefully I can sort out a better solution in the future. I tend to build each of these posts on a single HTML page outside of CMS, and end up having to make tweaks afterwards to make things display correctly afterwards. Ah technical debt, we meet again.

• Practice begins anew

  February 9, 2021

  I'm starting up another stretch of daily coding posts. This is post 001 of 100 posts I hope to complete. Many of them may be one-off posts, but I'm hoping to learn a lot and put what I learn to good use.

• Why was I using PDFs instead of HTML?

  January 21, 2021

  A few days ago I was wondering why I made the decision (a couple years ago) to make my resume and portfolio on my website PDFs instead of building them out in HTML.

• Working with print styles in CSS

  December 18, 2020

  Today, I was working on recreating my resume in HTML form so it can be a living document that I can keep it updated and do some interesting things with it.

• This Used To Be Our Playground by Simon Collison

  December 17, 2020