2026

• 22 May 2026

  Friday Fave: Build Awesome aka 11ty

  On a favorite static site generator and general all-around great web tool

• 2 May 2026

  Friday Fave: The Great British Bake Off

  On the baking competition show that sets the bar for all others

• 25 Apr 2026

  Friday Fave: Callsheet

  On an indispensable app for movie and TV lovers

• 17 Apr 2026

  Friday Fave: Catan

  Anyone want to trade wheat for wood?

• 12 Apr 2026

  How to Zoom Anywhere on MacOS

  A handy accessibility shortcut to zoom in on any app

• 10 Apr 2026

  Friday Fave: OOFOS

  Comfy slippers that help with plantar fasciitis

• 9 Apr 2026

  The Immeasurable Value of the Unmeasurables

  On the importance of qualities that can’t be measured

• 3 Apr 2026

  Friday Fave: EPCOT Festivals

  Exploring art, culture, food, and more at a favorite theme park

• 30 Mar 2026

  My Social Media “Strategy”

  A few thoughts on how I approach being social online

• 27 Mar 2026

• 21 Mar 2026

  What If

  A poem and a prayer for dark times

• 20 Mar 2026

  Friday Fave: Craft CMS

  On the CMS that powers this site and more

• 15 Mar 2026

  Spring Thaw Update

  This year started with a weird, wild ride.

• 13 Mar 2026

  Friday Fave: Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens

  On the art, beauty, and calm vibes of a local botanical garden

• 7 Mar 2026

  Friday Fave: Stardew Valley

  On a video game diversion that has helped us through hard times

• 4 Mar 2026

  How to Capture Layered Screenshots

  A neat trick for taking screenshots you can manipulate in Acorn

• 2 Mar 2026

  Winter 2026 Site Update

  On a handful of recent additions and tweaks to the site

• 27 Feb 2026

  Friday Fave: Dropout

  Exploring a new way to spread joy

• 1 Feb 2026

  A Review of Ticket to Ride: Legends of the West

  Our first foray into legacy-style board games was a smash hit

• 27 Jan 2026

  2026 App Defaults

  A quick catalog of the tools I use regularly

• 15 Jan 2026

  2026 Theme: Explore

  On tinkering, learning, paying attention, and trying things again

• 4 Jan 2026

  3D Prints for the Printer

  A few easy projects to improve your 3D printer

2025

• 31 Dec 2025

  2025 in Review

  On a wild, rollercoaster ride of a year

• 30 Dec 2025

  Holiday Hullabaloo Update

  On the end of the year and holiday mayhem

• 30 Dec 2025

  One Year Review of Bambu Lab P1S

  Thoughts on a 3D printer I’ve been using all year long

• 28 Dec 2025

  2025 Podcast Update

  More podcasts I’ve enjoyed recently

• 15 Dec 2025

  Visited Link Styles Are Limited

  Or why visited links can’t have styles other than color, including transparency

• 1 Dec 2025

  Christmas on Wendhurst

  On tacky lights, annual traditions, and the passage of time

• 10 Nov 2025

  Autumnal Anniversary Update

  On the changing of seasons and anniversaries

• 8 Nov 2025

  On the Pesky Question of AI

  A review of the tech trend du jour

• 7 Nov 2025

  How I Rate Media

  On my personal mental model for rating media

• 18 Oct 2025

  A Brief Trip to the Valley

  We took a whirlwind tour in the Shenandoah Valley.

• 3 Oct 2025

  St. Jude 2025 Recap

  On the incredible generosity and kindness from friends and strangers

• 18 Sep 2025

  The Node Pill Manager

  On a better analogy for managing packages in code

• 6 Sep 2025

  Ste for St. Jude

  I encourage you to give to St. Jude this September.

• 25 Aug 2025

  Summer 2025 Site Refresh

  On the details behind the latest version of this site

• 17 Aug 2025

  End of Summer Update

  On the end of summer and beginning of a new chapter

• 19 Apr 2025

  Spring Healthcare Update

  On learning a lot in the healthcare industry

• 13 Apr 2025

  A Bite of the Big Apple

  We took a very quick trip to a very big city.

• 24 Mar 2025

  Coping Through Cozy Pursuits

  Relaxing hobbies that help in the hard times

• 14 Feb 2025

  2025 Theme: Revive

  Restoring life, joy, and health after a hard year

• 7 Feb 2025

  Hello Kaladin

  Say hello to the furriest new addition to the family.

• 5 Feb 2025

  On Blogging

  Answering the challenge on how and why I blog

• 4 Feb 2025

  2024 in Review

  Only a month late, because life keeps happening.

• 29 Jan 2025

  To a Wonderful Mom

  A few thoughts to remember an amazing mother

2024

• 22 Oct 2024

  Inspiring XOXO Videos

  Even if you missed XOXO, the videos are amazing.

• 31 Aug 2024

  The Firsts and the Lasts

  On the precarious, bittersweet nature of fleeting moments.

• 3 Jul 2024

  A Banner Moment

  For a brief instant, something I created appeared in an Apple keynote

• 29 Feb 2024

  The Wax and Wane of the Web

  I wrote a little something about the web for A List Apart.

• 10 Feb 2024

  A Whole New Vision

  On how the Vision Pro could let us see the world through others’ eyes

• 5 Jan 2024

  2024 Theme: Rekindle

  How to go from burnout to burning again

2023

• 31 Dec 2023

  2023 in Review

  A quick look back over 2023

• 16 Dec 2023

  Goodbye Izzy

  In which I remember our good girl

• 5 Dec 2023

  Making a Hatbox Ghost Costume

  When the costume doesn't exist, it's time to DIY

2020

• 17 Jan 2020

  Select Entire Elements With CSS

  How to make the entire contents of any HTML element selectable with 'user-select: all'

• 3 Jan 2020

  My 2020 Theme: Explore

  The name of the game for this year is exploration!

• 2 Jan 2020

  2019 in Review

  Revisiting what worked and what didn't in 2019

2019

• 20 Sep 2019

  I Started a Web Comic

  About design and making things for people

• 27 Aug 2019

  Hide False Spell Check Errors

  How to use spellcheck="false" to prevent showing spell check errors

• 3 Aug 2019

  Link Shortener With Netlify

  How to create a super simple link shortener with a single _redirects file and Netlify

• 28 Jul 2019

  Changing Color Formats

  Shift+Click on colors in Chrome Dev Tools to change the color format

• 23 Jul 2019

  Loading Styles Asynchronously

  How to load CSS asynchronously with print media styles and a dash of JavaScript

• 3 Jul 2019

  The Best Way To Skip A Stone

  How to angle your throw and stone for optimal skipping

• 2 Jul 2019

  Count Files In Terminal

  How to to get a count of items in a directory from the command line

• 1 Jul 2019

  Better Screengrabs

  How to take a screenshot of a full window with a transparent background on MacOS

• 18 Jun 2019

  My Favorite Podcasts

  Stories, interviews, and conversations I enjoy

• 14 Apr 2019

  One Magical Moment

  Remembering a visit to Notre Dame

• 22 Jan 2019

  My 2019 Theme: Rebuild

  Getting back to building the things I’m passionate about

• 4 Jan 2019

  2018 in Review

  Where I made big plans for 2018, but they all went out the window.

2018

• 22 Sep 2018

  My Favorite Music for Focusing

  Sometimes you just need some tunes without lyrics to get down to work

2017

• 15 Sep 2017

  A Whole New Me

  For 30 days, we gave up sugar, gluten, dairy, and legumes.

2016

• 24 Dec 2016

  Happy Holidays 2016

  A quick recap of our year and a new tradition we’ve started

• 22 Dec 2016

  Starting the Year Fresh

  A few tips and tricks I use to prep for a new year

• 29 Sep 2016

  Introducing ColorBot

  Building a 10kb personal color assistant

• 29 Sep 2016

  Introducing the UX Tool Belt

  A 10kb tool belt of UX tools, techniques, and process

• 28 Sep 2016

  An Idea in 10K

  Using compelling constraints to jumpstart creative projects

• 23 Aug 2016

  Anatomy of a Push Quote

  Using quotes from elsewhere to build better threads between sites

• 29 May 2016

  DIY Photo Clothesline

  How to spruce up a wall with easily changeable photos

• 23 Apr 2016

  A Daily Challenge

  Proud of my wife for capturing creative inspiration every day for a year.

• 21 Apr 2016

  Wildcard Sub-Domains

  How to configure a Digital Ocean droplet for multiple domains and wildcard subdomains

• 5 Apr 2016

  Crafting a New Site

  I’ve been making some changes around the old digs.

Topics

• 3D Printing On filament, models, making, and more
• Apple On all things Mac, iOS, and more
• Design On wrangling pixels, vectors, and UI
• Development On building things with code, sweat, and tears
• Disney All about that mouse (and his parks)
• DIY On making things by hand, for myself
• Family On relationships and the ties that bind
• Friday Faves Sharing life’s little joys on a regular basis
• Gaming On tabletop, video games, and more
• Health On eating right, moving more, and living better
• Learning On curiosity and ideas
• Life On creating myself, one moment at a time
• Now & Then Updates from specific moments in time
• Photos Little moments, captured
• Productivity On the tricks and techniques I use to function
• Reading A more in-depth look at things I’ve read and loved
• Site On this here corner of the web
• Technology Thoughts on trends, tools, hardware, and software
• TIL Always be learning, and shared when I can
• Travel On the places I have been (or want to go)
• Writing On the words, and the meaning behind them

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