I’ve been experimenting. I’ve been concocting a recipe for vegan kugel, and rediscovering little features and edges of my website I’d forgotten I baked in. Like chocolate chips hidden in an oatmeal raisin cookie. One chip most recently re-discovered: support for per-page custom s … | Continue reading
I’ve been experimenting. I’ve been concocting a recipe for vegan kugel, and rediscovering little features and edges of my website I’d forgotten I baked in. Like chocolate chips hidden in an oatmeal raisin cookie. One chip most recently re-discovered: support for per-page custom s … | Continue reading
In accessibility and the product person I said we need to make accessibility a core part of our processes Here, I want to talk about that in more detail. I want to briefly explore what making accessibility a part of core processes looks like, and how that is different from center … | Continue reading
In accessibility and the product person I said we need to make accessibility a core part of our processes Here, I want to talk about that in more detail. I want to briefly explore what making accessibility a part of core processes looks like, and how that is different from center … | Continue reading
I recently re-read Peter Naur’s “Programming as theory building”. Afterwards I set out to write my own text editor. The paper posits that it’s really hard, if not impossible, to fully communicate about a program and sort of gestures at the futility of documentation…what spun arou … | Continue reading
I recently re-read Peter Naur’s “Programming as theory building”. Afterwards I set out to write my own text editor. The paper posits that it’s really hard, if not impossible, to fully communicate about a program and sort of gestures at the futility of documentation…what spun arou … | Continue reading
This post is a slightly modified version of a talk I presented to the product practice at my work. It presents a few ways that product designers and managers can help to move accessibility forward. It is a little bit different than what I normally share, here, but, I thought it m … | Continue reading
This post is a slightly modified version of a talk I presented to the product practice at my work. It presents a few ways that product designers and managers can help to move accessibility forward. It is a little bit different than what I normally share, here, but, I thought it m … | Continue reading
I’m feeling pretty chuffed! Last week I wrote about my intention to make this website more accessible. My motivations were many-fold, but, primarily, mostly shame. I’ve worked as an accessibility specialist in the past, and now spend a bunch of my days at work looking for ways to … | Continue reading
I’m feeling pretty chuffed! Last week I wrote about my intention to make this website more accessible. My motivations were many-fold, but, primarily, mostly shame. I’ve worked as an accessibility specialist in the past, and now spend a bunch of my days at work looking for ways to … | Continue reading
In reply to: Oatmeal - week notes The worst kind of blogging is blogging about blogging, so, I’ll keep this blogging about blogging short! I’ve made some minor updates to the design of the website that have improved it’s usability a wee bit, and are a step in the right direction … | Continue reading
In reply to: Oatmeal - week notes The worst kind of blogging is blogging about blogging, so, I’ll keep this blogging about blogging short! I’ve made some minor updates to the design of the website that have improved it’s usability a wee bit, and are a step in the right direction … | Continue reading
It got a wee bit cold here in Maine this weekend. It was thankfully uneventful for us. We hung around inside and watched it get real cold outside. Our home faired pretty well, too. Honestly pleasantly surprised about that! We picked this weekend to go all in on potty training — p … | Continue reading
At the start of this year I set out to revive my long dead reading habit. After having kids it fell by the wayside. I’ve read 41 books so far this year. Mostly a mix of science fiction and nonfiction computer science books. Here’s the complete list of everything I’ve read. I’ve g … | Continue reading
What follows is my attempt to spark a conversation in a few converging, but separate communities I lurk in. I’ve already had a bunch of amazing conversations around this topic with a lot of people. Those conversations helped to shape what follows. Thanks to everyone who was willi … | Continue reading
Over the past couple years I’ve done the advent of code to varying degrees. I thought I was going to do it again this year but decided to try something different. I’ve been calling what came together a “December Adventure.” It isn’t anything fancy; throughout December I aim to wr … | Continue reading
In reply to: chreke's blog - Little Languages Are The Future Of Programming The idea is that as you start to find patterns in your application, you can encode them in a little language—this language would then allow you to express these patterns in a more compact manner than … | Continue reading
In reply to: Oatmeal - My programming language odyssey A while ago someone asked what I liked about the programming languages I like — forth and lisp specifically. I’ve noodled on it for a bit now, and I think the reason I like forth and scheme and other languages with something … | Continue reading
If they aren’t weekly, I guess they’re occasional? 3rd repair procedure to fix brain bleed was a success. I have a few more scans and follow ups, but, knock wood I think I’m through at this point. I’ve spent about a week laying low and taking it easy navigating some wild pain, bu … | Continue reading
This evening I sat down on the couch sleepy. We’d just gotten the kids into bed. I hadn’t planned on writing any code but figured I’d round the evening out with some reading. First I read through the docs and glossary of uf, a forth system for uxn. Then I read through an example … | Continue reading
As I look to assembly nights 2, and think of trying my own take on it, I wanna have a cozy space ready to play with uxn. The setup I’ve landed on is sort of inspired by plan9port. Prepare the way in home directory, create a u directory in u clone uxn and build it add ~/u/uxn/ to … | Continue reading
Am I allowed to call them “week notes” if I don’t do them weekly? I went in for what was supposed to be my final brain scan, a diagnostic angiogram (don’t look that up). The good news is that the repair has officially cured my brain bleed! The bad news is that they saw another ve … | Continue reading
Since my brain injury (which I’ve since learned can be called an “ABI” or “acquired brain injury”) I’ve noticed that I have trouble focusing on programming tasks; I’m able to do what I need to do for work and family but, when it comes time for hobby projects I’m just gloop. Total … | Continue reading
In reply to: episode 8 👋 Oh hai! I was interviewed on a podcast! | Continue reading
In reply to: A simple mess This is also something people keep getting wrong about Markdown as originally presented. Markdown isn’t a format. It’s a convenience tool that helps you write some of the boringest and commonest parts of HTML easier, and you can easily drop into more wo … | Continue reading
I remember the days when Kicks Condor used to update regularly. I miss those days. For a while every post seemed to unearth some new, yet weirder corner of the little internet (maybe not yet the smol web). There are folks doing similar web archeology…I do some of it myself…but no … | Continue reading
In reply to: Oatmeal - That one time when Buffy the Vampire Slayer maybe saved my life? After giving my brain bleed time to heal the neurosurgeon called me back in to hospital; the plan was to reassess, attempt to fix it using the minimally invasive technique that they tried once … | Continue reading
A secret pleasure of mine in high school was getting home before my parents and watching 30 - 60 minutes of TV. I technically wasn’t allowed to do it, but I suspect they knew I snuck this time whenever I could. My favorite show to watch in this secreted me-time was Buffy the Vamp … | Continue reading
I’m toying with the idea of becoming a full time Mac OS System 7 developer. Edited to add that I’ve had so much fun playing with this implementation of Forth on Mac OS System 7 that I quickly built a little microsite to help archive the info I’ve found about it. | Continue reading
While I wouldn’t say I’m wicked adept at any one language, I’ve dipped my toes into many different languages. Here, I try to roughly recreate my programming language journey. I can make websitez gud; HTML, CSS/SASS, JavaScript > CoffeeScript > TypeScript, and PHP The web. A marve … | Continue reading
An unexpected visitor came to the tree in our neighbor’s yard today. | Continue reading
In reply to: ~karlen, "no one will ever read this but..." ~dozens recently introduced me to this series where blog posts that are at least a year old and feature the phrase “no one will ever read this but” are read allowed…and…it is remarkable. | Continue reading
This is a game of hidden information, structured communication and cooperation. To play you will need a standard deck of playing cards. The game is a modified version of Hanabi which is played with a custom deck of cards and tokens. How to play Remove aces and 2s from the deck. P … | Continue reading