Jekyll Hello world, I’m Jekyll
Random Use Photoshop’s checkered canvas for loading images
Jekyll An introduction to Jekyll
Adobe Letterpressed InDesign icons
2011
Life The tech behind our wedding
Work Working on TeuxDeux
Work Today is my first day at Destroy Today LLC
Adobe Today is my last day at Adobe
Random Depth of Field drawing in Instagram
Random Double tap to unlike in Instagram
2012
Work Back on my own
Work Building the Pencil Page with FiftyThree
A chance encounter with a former co-worker leads to a quick freelance gig that would define my style of work for years to come.
Life Brooklyn Beta is people
Random Washing the Dishes and Other Moments of Thought
A rock in my parents’ backyard, eight months of acupuncture, and a household chore share a common thread of being the catalyst for thought.
Random The perfect GIF workflow using Dropbox and Alfred
Life Q&&A
Work Joining Oak
Redesign Redesigning with rules
Work Lessons learned in a year on my own
Life 2012 – A Year in Review
2013
Cushion Restructuring the individual project page
Cushion Project blocks
Cushion Redesigning the homepage
Cushion Multiple timelines
Cushion Archiving and estimate differences
Cushion Multiple financial goals
Cushion Zooming in on the timeline
Cushion Currency
Cushion Preferences, accounts, and typeface change
Cushion Sending out the first email
Cushion Currency inputs, notifications, and invoice nets
Cushion Dots and lines
Cushion Calculating in the database and revealing tendencies
Work Lessons learned on a 3-month sabbatical
Cushion Improved form UX
Cushion Cushion is online
Cushion Schedule timeline patterns
Cushion A slimmer schedule timeline
Cushion The schedule timeline
Cushion Plugging in real data for the first time
Cushion Transitions and project lists
Cushion Death to modals
Cushion The individual project page
Cushion Estimated incomes and talks with other freelancers
Cushion Statuses to lists and the paid beta
Cushion The timeline
Cushion Invoice terminology
Cushion Modal forms
Cushion Wiring the backend to the frontend
Cushion Balancing design and dev
Cushion Timecop, Monocle, and Vagrant
Cushion Going with Ruby and Sinatra
Cushion Ditching local-first and trying out Node.js
Cushion Switching to AngularJS
Cushion Building the Table with Vue.js
Cushion Clients, Projects, and Invoices
Work Building the Carousel website with Dropbox
I detail my experience working with Dropbox to build an adaptive website that provides a unique experience across mobile, tablet, and desktop.
Life On sabbatical
Cushion Introduction (to the Cushion journal)
Cushion Cushion
Work Building the Mailbox website with Dropbox
Not one to turn down a challenge, I accept a freelance gig with an identical deadline to another job with the same client. Feel the burn-out.
Talk Book Covers, Model Airplanes, and My Dad
An extended transcription of my CreativeMornings talk about my dad, his work, and how he turned me into the maker I am today.
2014
Cushion Retention through useful features
Cushion The onboarding checklist
Cushion Spreading the word
Cushion From beta to launch - the subdomain
Cushion From beta to launch - sign up
Cushion From beta to launch - messaging
Cushion Launch
Cushion Authenticating with 3rd party services
Cushion Intro to integrations
Cushion Inspiration vs imitation
Cushion The emotional rollercoaster
Cushion Designing project blocks
Cushion Everything in increments
Cushion Deleting your account
Cushion Designing the subscription page
Cushion Rewriting the timeline
2015
Cushion Funding Cushion
Cushion Hiring a team of freelancers
Cushion Taking a real break from work
Cushion Slack as a notification center
Cushion Document your features
Cushion 300
Cushion Vacations
Cushion Offering discounts
Cushion Waves of traffic
Cushion Less blogging, more journaling
Work Building the Casper homepage
I collaborated with Casper to build the animations for their new homepage. In this post, I share the story from initial call to launch.
2016
Cushion My typical week as a founder
Cushion Building components in a sandbox
Cushion Reactive time with Vue.js
Cushion Visualizing daylight saving time
Cushion Recording screencast GIFs
Cushion Writing a job listing
Cushion Using feature flags to run betas
Cushion Our first company lunch
Cushion How to embed Vue.js & Vuex inside an AngularJS app... wait what?
2017
Cushion The “Update Available” alert
Cushion Improving readability with bigger fonts and higher contrast
Cushion My design workflow
Cushion Simplifying our build process and SSL with Cloudfront
Cushion Restructuring an evolving app
2018
Redesign Logo
Redesign Intro
Redesign Favicon
Redesign RSS feed location
Redesign TypeScript
Redesign Sideways progress
Redesign Pagination
Redesign Links
Redesign Footnotes
Redesign Line-height
Redesign Max-width
Redesign Syntax highlighting
Redesign WebP fallback on Safari
Redesign Responsive images
Redesign Dates
Redesign Images
Redesign Lighthouse, Now build env vars, and Nuxt manifest
Redesign Title and article links
Redesign RSS feed
Redesign Contentful preview API hiccup
Redesign Hello World
Life Burning Out and Finding Stability
After five years of running my own startup, I experience my first panic attack, which leads me to course correct my life in favor of good health and stability.
Life Focusing on self improvement
2019
Stripe The new Stripe.com
Cushion Speeding up Jest tests with --runInBand
Cushion Moving the Cushion Journal to my blog
Redesign Filter by category
Cushion Updating Sentry
Random Should I email my posts, too?
Cushion Updating Skylight and dealing with ActiveSupport
Cushion Reducing Heroku CI time by 35% for an extra penny
Cushion The build failed, but I swear it wasn’t me
Cushion A hiccup with subdomain routing
Cushion Upgrading to Ruby 2.7.1
Cushion QA’ing pull requests using Heroku Review Apps
Cushion Subdomain routing in Sinatra
Cushion Redirecting the Heroku “Open app” button to a custom domain
Cushion Reloading Ruby with Sinatra::Reloader
Cushion Exploring a modern Cushion
Random Learning Go
Cushion Migrating the Cushion website to S3 to avoid dealing with SSL
Redesign Contentful asset URLs
Life The Ace Hotel & Swim Club date shake
Life Recurring dream
Life Learning not to speedrun
Life Produce for days
Life Chef Collective
Life A new game
Random Checkered pattern for loading images, revisited
Almost a decade after my post about using Photoshop’s checkered pattern for loading images, I revisit the code to refactor it for the modern web.
Stripe One year at Stripe
Redesign Blog index sticky nav
Redesign Contentful mishaps
Redesign Short-form vs long-form posts
Life Red Hook cat lot
Life The missed vacation
Life The virus’s ripples
Life Learning Figma with a full stomach
Life Depression, chili, and the bathroom sink
Life Half-gallon margaritas
Life Laundry in the eleventh hour
Life The mirrorless webcam
Life Cooking from memory
Life Working from home for good
Life Dystopian grocery shopping
Life A long walk through Red Hook
Life One week without Twitter and Instagram
After one week without Twitter and Instagram, I wrote about my experience so far, which has been so beneficial that I wonder if I’ll ever reinstall them.
Life Deleting Twitter and Instagram from my phone
I feel unhealthy about how I use Twitter and Instagram, scrolling through them only to feel caught up, so I’m deleting both off my phone and taking a break.
Redesign Casper homepage section
Redesign Blog index
Redesign Stripe homepage section
Redesign Article pagination
Redesign Context-aware logo
Redesign Homepage concept
Redesign Homepage
Redesign Migrating
Redesign Centered layout
Redesign Contact links
2020