Notes

Slowly but surely, I’ve been chipping away at my site’s build time on Netlify.

Using CSS Grid Layout Module to redesign a Jekyll site and further improve performance and accessibility.

While inspecting the markup of some syntax highlighted code blocks I noticed something I hadn’t before, language-lexer classes:

While investigating ways of using static files with Jekyll for a site prototype I was building, I learned that site.static_files was a thing. What is it and why you should care? Let me take a minute to share…

The question of how to write a list inside of a table cell with Kramdown recently came up on Jekyll Talk — prompting me to look for a solution.

You know what sucks? Maintaining two separate branches of an open source project, just to host its source code and documentation together with GitHub Pages.

Not to overstate the obvious here, but oil pastels do not behave like colored pencils.

Playing with the new Depth Effect (aka fauxkeh) on my iPhone 7 Plus got me thinking about Gaussian blurs, and how to improve their use on this site.

In my never ending quest to micro-optimize the hell out of my site, I ran into a snag when trying to use SSI directives to improve the loading of critical CSS and cached stylesheets.

Like previous years, I started out with the best of intentions for Inktober and then quickly lost steam…

Enter to win a portrait of your choice drawn by Michael Rose in his signature PaperFaces style.

Finding inspiration from the faces of strangers on Sktchy for iOS.

It was only natural the two little rosebuds would become early adopters of technology.

Year one of my 365 day portrait project may be over, but I’m just getting started.

An experiment in humanizing the web — drawing a portrait everyday day using an iPad and Paper for iOS.