#tutorial

Lessons learned from building, optimizing, and deploying a huge static site powered by everyone's favorite SSG — Jekyll.

Using Staticman to add threaded comments and reply notifications to a static-based Jekyll site.

Integrating a static-based commenting system into Jekyll with the help of Staticman and ditching Disqus in the process.

Switching tools in Paper for iOS may seem obvious to you pros out there, but you'd be surprised how often I'm asked how to do it. Here's the answer.

A brain dump documenting my approach to using Jekyll, how that's evolved over the years, and web development learnings I've picked up along the way.

Learn how to use Pencil by FiftyThree and features like Blend and Surface Pressure to pull off impressive effects in Paper for iOS.

Discover the faux layer technique and how it can aid in sketching and tracing with Paper for iOS.

How I used collections with Jekyll to build a style guide and pattern library for Made Mistakes.

Learn how to draw outer space scenes filled with stars, galaxies, planets, black holes and more with Paper for iOS and a Pencil stylus.

A color picker has been added to Paper! Learn what the new tool does and how to use it.