Archive of: journal

• 100 Days of Code - Week 6

  March 22, 2021

  This week I tried recreating some neat link styles I saw on the Field Notes website, tried out Josh Comeau’s full-bleed grid tutorial, did a quick refresher on variable fonts, and tried out a few other things with CSS, SVG, and JavaScript.

• 100 Days of Code - Week 5

  March 16, 2021

  

  This past week was full of new challenges. I got stumped a couple of times and had to decide to call it good on a few posts, but I think I learned quite a bit.

• 100 Days of Code - Week 2

  February 23, 2021

  This past week I worked with things I haven’t spent much time with before.

• 100 Days of Code - Week 1

  February 16, 2021

  

  Last Tuesday I decided to start the 100 Days of Code challenge to help me get motivated to work on some personal projects.

• 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.

• Fixing little problems

  September 9, 2020

  

  Sometimes it is worth putting in the effort to fix little issues to improve an experience.

• 5 more years until 40

  September 8, 2020

  

  To be honest, I’m not quite sure how I should feel about today. Is 35 a big number to celebrate…

• Trying to get back into learning Japanese

  February 4, 2020

  

  I’m a little embarrassed to write this, but after living in Japan, for almost 4 years, I still don’t…

• Taking the time to read more books

  September 25, 2019

  Before I turned 34, I took a bit of time to think of some things I’d like finish or start doing more while I’m 34. Reading more books, preferably more of the ones I already own, was high on the list.

• Bye Maggie

  June 19, 2019

  

  My family back in OKC recently lost one of our beloved pets, Maggie.