The Beautiful Mess That is Webflow At Calaxy, we built our landing page in Webflow, a no-code website builder.
Blog Posts on My Career and Work at Calaxy This post will be really short1 but my team, the fine folks at Calaxy, are allowing me to write about the things I am learning, about the team, contributing to open source projects, as well as building prototype apps on my own time.
New Opportunities {% notice warning %} 📸 Photo by Mohammad Rahmani on Unsplash {% endnotice %} So I’ve found employment for the first time since March 2020. It is a contract with a pretty cool startup. I’ve been working there for two weeks now. The contract is for 6 months with an option to hire
A Year of Reflection and a Year to Move Forward Sometimes it’s just easier to know thyself. {% notice info %} 📸 Photo by Ben Sweet on Unsplash{% endnotice %} I was sitting in the bathroom, talking to myself, reflecting on lots of details about my life and the past year. One of the things I thought about and have been thinking about
Building a Static Site Generator with Ruby I wanted to show that I could build something, even if it was small, on my own, with little guidance. Ben Halpern started a thread about his generator on DEV and I took his scaffold and ran with it.
Hooked on Hooks: Portfolio Madness A theme, a static site generator, and an animation library walk into a bar… If you haven’t read I am refactoring my portfolio and one of the things I wanted to do was do it from scratch. I got caught up on the details of a portfolio I admire
Dev Research, A Zettelkasten A new old way to take notes and research. {% notice info %} 📸 Photo by Maksym Kaharlytskyi on Unsplash{% endnotice %} I’ve recently discovered the ZettelKasten Method for researching and taking notes. I first heard about it when I signed up for Roam Research a note taking tool for networked thought who’
Portfolio Redesign Part 1: Ideas Exploring Gatsby for self-expression. {% notice info %} Photo by Joshua Aragon on Unsplash {% endnotice %} My current portfolio is written in Jekyll with a premade theme I found on GitHub. I have had many different versions over the years, most of which I have found some boilerplate online and customized it. Below
Flexing My CSS Muscles by Adding A Bit of Panache A case study on a trial by fire primer on CSS. Photo by Caspar Camille Rubin on Unsplash{% notice warning %} Well, this was a ride. But I came out on the other end. The following is a case study of my journey adding low highlights to headings and links to