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Why does PayPal suck so bad? – ChatGPT Speaks
Trying to open a Venmo to collect donations for a small charity is a nightmare because PayPal bought competitor Venmo and PayPal sucks.
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What's Next
After my big win at the Art Students League, what will I bring from the experience?.
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Last day of the summer session at The Art Students League
I am finishing up my work in the lithography studio for the summer.
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The New New Thing – Back to the Stone Age
I am making lithographs at The Art Students League.
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Developers are jumping ship on Apple computers
Developers are frustrated with non-upgradable M-series Macs and are looking elsewhere for upgradable hardware.
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Doing it alone. Everyone has left.
I buried my brother Wade this spring on Good Friday. It took almost two years to do.
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Uses of Poppy oil, Walnut oil, and Lavender Retouch Varnish
I have an arsenal of lipids to modify egg yolk medium for egg tempera painting. Here's what they do
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Rocking with Astoria Tech Meetup
I delivered a presentation about loading variable fonts locally at Astoria Tech Meetup as well as attended the second hacker event.
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My Egg Tempera Workshop
I led a workshop on how to paint with Egg Tempera at The Collaboratory. It was a big success. I want to teach again.
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Exploring modern CSS and color prototypes
Digging into modern CSS to define and control color for themes.
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Remembering back before the big project
What was I doing before the big project? Remember what I was working on. . .
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Typographical odyssey – Rabbit holes and gotchas
My recent deep dive into web typography to replace static fonts with variable fonts, replace my font stack, and other details.
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Mountains and Valleys – Codebase sprint journeys
Ruminations midway through a refactoring design sprint.
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Designing the Display Layer and Build Systems
Recent work on build systems and design systems.
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Short-stack OpenProps 2024
I first installed Short-stack OpenProps in 2022. The development build had problems with Terser and Rollup 3.0. This year I fixed it.
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I am at war with YouTube
YouTube has engaged in an evil, vicious campaign to block users who use ad blocking software. This premeditated aggression will not stand.
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New York City is flooding again
My apartment was very nearly flooded again. I was caught unawares.
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Holed up and working from home
Website development is complicated. Sometimes long stretches of concentration pays off.
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Wondering what's what
The culture has changed and I am looking around wondering what is what. Everything is very confusing right now.
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Portfolio Review
Updating my portfolio website reminds me of the great work I have done for clients. I look forward to the next journey.
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Filling my creative well
As the SAG-AFTRA strike grinds on I'm feeling the absence of quality content.
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Triple-cream Meetup Day
I go to Developer Meetups to meet people, mentor and get help with my projects. This is a description of a sunny summer day attending three Meetups.
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Watching Paint Dry
The Apple Computer Time Machine app, used to make periodic backups of my data and software on the computer, is taking eight hours to backup my computer.
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January – June 2023 Projects
An inventory and accounting of Craig Webb Art R&D coding projects for the first half of 2023.
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Sass Build Systems fail Sass variables – Help!
My multiple build systems for SASS fail to process Sass variables and mixins. I describe the issue and ask for help.
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Four years in, I got Covid
Ruminations about my career, the state of world affairs and the prospect of becoming a family caretaker in the time of Covid.
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Waiting at the airport gate
I am on the adventure of a lifetime. I listen to the wisdom of the chattering monkeys before I embark
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Missed flights and excuses
Poor airline performance is occasion to ponder the nature of excuses and to look at a few of my own.
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Put the mask on myself first
My brother needs a new liver. He's done all he can to destroy himself.
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Tutorial Hell and Coding Research Rant
Every developer has this rant and here's mine. All of the things I am studying and researching are a bear. They get my goat. Grrrr.
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Trapped in smoke
Week two of being inside, looking out as toxic smoke from forest fires fill the sky.
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Across The Universe
Across the Universe is a song by the English rock band the Beatles. It was written by John Lennon and credited to Lennon–McCartney.
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Return to Forever
The Once and Future King Returns to Eleventy after a long sojourn and finds the kingdom in pretty good shape.
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Eleventy Image Shortcode Test
Eleventy is a JavaScript-based templating system gaining traction in the web development community. It is facile, fast and flexible.
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Eleventy is my new jam(stack)
Eleventy is a JavaScript-based templating system gaining traction in the web development community. It is facile, fast and flexible.
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Web Development Syllabus
This Web Design and Development Syllabus is a description of subject matter to be taught in a college-level class. The Syllabus is for an introductory overview to web design and development and an advanced level class.
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Permalinks, Roots and Relative Paths in Eleventy
Documenting what I learned about Permalinks, Roots and Relative Paths in Eleventy while following a tutorial and making additional changes.
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Regarding Veronica
Fired from her teaching job at a Catholic school, a transgender woman contemplates suicide until she meets a seven year old girl with two fathers—one of whom recently left with a woman —and they have a profound impact on each other’s lives.
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Working Stiff
These are pain points on my road to embracing Eleventy as a templating editor and jamstack CMS.
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