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September 20, 2024 •
The books I read, playlist I made, and recipes I saved during 2024 Summer.
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June 20, 2024 •
The books I read, playlist I made, and recipes I saved during 2024 Spring.
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May 18, 2024 •
We went fishing this morning at our local preserve and this great blue heron joined us.
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April 10, 2024 •
I redesigned my site a few months ago and had fun creating small generative art pieces that change at build time.
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March 20, 2024 •
The books I read, playlist I made, and recipes I made this Winter.
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January 25, 2024
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December 20, 2023 •
The books I read, playlist I made, and recipes I made this Fall.
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December 14, 2023 •
I added a now reading section to my site to share the book I’m reading. It’s powered by GitHub Actions and the pressure that comes when all my library loans become available on the same day.
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November 17, 2023 •
Earlier this year, I migrated a personal project to use web components. Throughout the entire process, I worried that I was doing it wrong. I started to consider how I might validate my assumptions especially as a self-learner.
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September 20, 2023 •
The books I read, playlist I made, and recipes I made this Summer.
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August 28, 2023 •
A mini-vacation to Lake Placid and The Wild Center before Kindergarten starts.
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June 20, 2023 •
The books I read, playlist I made, and recipes I made this Spring.
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June 14, 2023
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May 1, 2023
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April 25, 2023 •
I tracked my heartburn from January 2020 until March 2022. I stopped tracking because that’s when I found out that I never had heartburn.
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April 21, 2023 •
This is my favorite question.
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March 20, 2023 •
The books I read, playlist I made, and recipes I made this Winter.
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January 2, 2023 •
Over the years we have refined how we share the work of managing our household and found some services we wouldn’t want to live without. Here are some of the ways we manage our household.
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December 20, 2022 •
The books I read, playlist I made, and recipes I made this Fall.
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November 18, 2022 •
I bought a treadmill for my standing desk and I love it.
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November 9, 2022 •
I think you should do something 100 times. Choose something you enjoy, figure out how you will track it, and then do it 100 times.
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November 7, 2022 •
Earlier this year, I created documentation action to automatically generate documentation for my GitHub Actions.
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September 25, 2022 •
I built a display that shows the book I’m reading and how many books I read this year. It’s powered by my GitHub Action to track books, a Raspberry Pi, epaper.js, and an e-paper module.
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September 20, 2022 •
The books I read, playlist I made, and recipes I made this Summer.
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July 20, 2022 •
Some of my favorite work days start with an activity that puts me in a good mood. Here are some vetted suggestions.
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July 16, 2022 •
I have been using GitHub Desktop for years now and it’s one of my favorite development tools. Desktop has evolved over the years from an interface for git commands to the command center for development.
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July 1, 2022 •
Last year I worked through the Buffy the Vampire Slayer series as a first-time watcher. The comparison of what’s old and new is a strong theme in the series and is often projected as magic.
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June 20, 2022 •
The books I read, playlist I made, and recipes I made this Spring.
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June 16, 2022 •
On video calls, I receive a lot of compliments about my plant wall. Before the pandemic, people asked if my background is real live plants, and now they ask if it’s virtual.
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June 1, 2022 •
This year I migrated my scheduled bots (like Weatherbot and Weather status) from using AWS Lambda to GitHub Actions.
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May 16, 2022 •
Last year, I met my goal of reading 52 books in 52 weeks and then some. I owe it all to audiobooks, mainly, but also Libby, friends with great book suggestions, Roxane Gay’s audacious book club, and learning that New York State residents can apply for a New York Public Library card.
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March 20, 2022 •
The books I read, playlist I made, and recipes I made this Winter.
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February 18, 2022 •
As I write this, I have already eaten two pains au chocolat (chocolate croissants). Since I am new to having a fresh-out-of-the-oven croissant, it only seemed reasonable to try it twice.
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January 26, 2022 •
Last year, I started to track new recipes I tried and books I read by saving their metadata to YAML files. I had already been saving Spotify playlists in the same way and then this year I started saving Wordle games. I have found something deeply gratifying about maintaining metadata libraries.
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January 23, 2022 •
This weekend I made Molten Chocolate Doughnut Holes. Was it a cure for -15℉ morning? Maybe.
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January 16, 2022 •
I’m playing Wordle. I love a word puzzle and like many have been hooked by the daily game. I wrote wordle-to-yaml-action to archive my Wordle games to a yaml file.
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December 31, 2021 •
The last day of 2021 was all fog, from sunrise to sunset. We were lucky to capture the fog at the Ballston Lake public dock.
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December 20, 2021 •
The books, music, and recipes I enjoyed this fall.
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October 9, 2021 •
With npm@v7, you no longer have to install peer dependencies. This feature removed a huge maintenance burden for our documentation sites at Mapbox. Through strategic use of peer dependencies and dependabot, we’ve significantly reduced our dependency maintenance.
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September 26, 2021 •
This year we perfected our outdoor dining kit. We keep the kit in our front closet and pull it out after we place a pick-up order and find a nearby table.
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September 20, 2021 •
The books, music, and recipes I enjoyed this summer.
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July 4, 2021 •
Like our markdown linters, all Mapbox documentation repositories use a shared ESLint configuration. Our configuration covers everything from enforcing React best practices to improving accessibility, including:
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June 20, 2021 •
The books, music, and recipes I enjoyed this spring.
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June 13, 2021 •
A muddy and beautiful descent to Barberville Falls.
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June 12, 2021 •
Do you track searches with no results on your site? To the Mapbox documentation team, it’s an interesting dataset. We can learn what the user wants, but cannot find, and then turn those failed searches into improvements.
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June 6, 2021 •
Yesterday I wrote about the markdown linters we use at Mapbox. Our other test suite focuses on language and asserts the Mapbox documentation styleguide. Our copyeditor is a fork of alex, which helps you find gender favoring, polarizing, race related, religion inconsiderate, or other unequal phrasing in text.
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June 5, 2021
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April 10, 2021 •
Since moving to the documentation team at Mapbox at the end of 2018, I’ve helped solved a lot of fun problems, but haven’t written about them. Let’s change that.
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March 27, 2021 •
I have been on a GitHub actions kick with read-action and instagram-rss-action. Most recently, I created bookmark-action that saves a URL along with the page’s metadata to a YAML file. I created this to track all the new recipes I tried so far this year.
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March 20, 2021 •
The books, music, and recipes I enjoyed this winter.
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February 27, 2021 •
After missing a local pierogi pop up, I needed a better way to manage Instagram. I created Instagram RSS action that will generate an RSS feed from one or more public Instagram accounts.
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February 10, 2021 •
To support my post Haiku 2018-2019, I created remark-lint-haiku to make sure that each haiku is in 5, 7, 5 syllable pattern. The linter uses syllable to count the syllables.
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February 9, 2021 •
I found an old note that contained a project to write a haiku every day. My project started in December 2018 and ended promptly in January 2019. The themes included work, baking, and difficulty finding nice fabric.
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December 20, 2020 •
The books, music, and recipes I enjoyed this fall.
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November 28, 2020 •
I baked along with series 11 of the Great British Bake Off.
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October 14, 2020 •
I built read action, a GitHub Action, that tracks the books that you’ve read by storing the book metadata in a yaml file. Services like Goodreads exist, but I want to own my data.
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September 20, 2020 •
The books, music, and recipes I enjoyed this summer.
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July 5, 2020 •
After working on a feedback feature for Mapbox’s documentation sites, I started collecting screenshots of how other companies offer user feedback. I decided to build a site to store them all: Feedback Library
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July 4, 2020 •
A few months ago
@jsnmrs and I started to build a linter that provides suggestions for image alternative text: alt-text.
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June 20, 2020 •
The books, music, and recipes I enjoyed this spring.
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March 20, 2020 •
The books, music, and recipes I enjoyed this winter.
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March 13, 2020 •
I’ve been meal prepping for as long as I’ve worked remotely (almost 6 years). I started with batches of chili, next burrito bowls, then butter chicken. During the week, it’s an incredible convenience and comfort to have a hot meal a few minutes away.
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December 1, 2019 •
Last month I participated in Codevember, which is a challenge to code every day in November.
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October 11, 2019 •
This week I made Yossy Arefi’s Rose apple tart.
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August 24, 2019 •
I turned one of my favorite cookies into ice cream. While this dairy-free treat is not as creamy as traditional ice cream, I really loved how well the flavors came together with the granola topping.
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July 30, 2019 •
Last year I wrote about how to create emails from a Google spreadsheet. I’m going to show you how to simplify the process by creating your email template in a Google doc.
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April 28, 2019 •
Inspired by a recent tile search, I set out to create a tiled floor pattern with CSS grid. Thanks to helpful examples on Grid by Example by Rachel Andrew, I tried grid-template-areas.
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March 27, 2019 •
This week we visited Gracie’s in Leeds, NY where I had a delicious iced matcha latte sweetened with vanilla and coconut milk. Inspired, I made matcha latte ice cream.
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March 27, 2019 •
You will know if you have a candidate for an automation when you have: a frequent manual process, consistent data, and a trigger.
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December 31, 2018 •
I first learned about Baked Alaska from the Sims 2. Your sim could study culinary arts and this was one of the higher level dishes. I finally decided to give it a try.
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December 26, 2018 •
Heavily inspired by Masterclass, I attempted a Kransekake for this year’s holiday treat. I owe my success to an inexpensive sausage stuffer that helped me create uniform rings and made it a breeze to bake and assemble. I decorated it with candied cranberries and rosemary.
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December 21, 2018 •
A moody, muddy morning.
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December 11, 2018 •
I built a Slack app that asks your workspace channel a random question every weekday. Members can submit questions via a Slack command if they wish. It’s great for ice breakers, to spark conversation, or to have something to look forward to every morning.
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November 4, 2018 •
This is part II to Download Flickr photos in your Jekyll posts and a rundown of how I setup a subdomain that points at an AWS S3 bucket to host my site’s assets. And https, too!
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November 4, 2018 •
I’ve stored all my photos for this blog on Flickr. For a while now I have kicked around the idea of finding a new home for them. One big reason being that a lot of the images are bloated and I would like to create my own system to control them. And now that Flickr is changing its storage policies, it’s time to move my boxes of photos out of their basement.
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September 26, 2018 •
As a farewell to summer, I made one more ice cream: the dark & stormy.
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September 21, 2018 •
This has become one of our favorite Instant Pot recipes. It’s especially perfect for fall. It also holds up great for leftovers or meal prep.
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August 31, 2018 •
Earlier this year I attended a Slack Session called Building your first Slack integration. It gave me a ton of ideas. Naturally, I decided to turn my office lamp into a mood ring as dictated by the emoji in my Slack status.
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July 16, 2018 •
For the past month, I’ve tried a new ice cream recipe with ingredients from the farmers market.
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June 22, 2018 •
For the past ten years, I’ve created a playlist for each season. I wrote about this before when I made Jekyll data playlists. At the end of each season, the playlist gets a post and I store all the data in _data/playlists.yml (for safe keeping).
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May 11, 2018 •
Filed under: things we probably don’t need, but idk I want it.
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February 4, 2018 •
For Ela Conf 2015, 2016, and 2017, we turned a private GitHub repository into a system for reviewing talk proposals.
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February 3, 2018 •
As a lover of donuts, I’ve always feared making them (mostly because I’m a bit of a baby when it comes to yeast and rolling dough). This recipe wasn’t so bad! I think the trickiest part was keeping the oil at a consistent temperature and finding the right time to flip each donut to get that perfect golden color.
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January 27, 2018 •
I love making crêpes, so I’ve had my eye on a crêpe cake for a while. I found the crêpe batter had a bit of a learning curve to get right. Thankfully, the batter was generous and allow for several oops crêpes.
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January 20, 2018 •
I decided to clear out my baking bucket list and tackle all the time-consuming desserts I’ve been itching to make. My first conquest: the French macaron.
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January 16, 2018 •
For Ela Conf 2016 and 2017, we created a Google Form to collect speaker feedback. The form had the following fields:
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January 6, 2018 •
Try the updated version of this post where I’ll teach you how to draft your email in Google docs
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December 29, 2017 •
I made a command line tool to run when I go into labor, AwayBot. This bot can also be used for all types of leave that take you out of the office for a while.
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December 17, 2017 •
When our son arrives next year, we’re anticipating late night feedings and diapers changes which may mean needing to turn on our smart bulbs without fumbling for our phones or asking Alexa.
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May 9, 2017 •
I wrote Keep your streak in the work week on The Human In The Machine today. My article is about how I built ChillBot, a Slack bot that messages me on the weekends to let me know if I’ve contributed on GitHub for seven consecutive days and to encourage me to take a break.
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March 5, 2017 •
I didn’t expect WeatherBot to become a series of posts, but the weather has been fluctuating so much scary.
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March 1, 2017 •
Last week I talked about how I built a WeatherBot that gives us a heads up if there will be snow over the next several hours. The recent warm weather inspired me to add warm weather alerts:
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February 22, 2017 •
We live in Upstate New York so there’s snow and it’s kind of pain for J to plow the driveway if our cars are in the way. I built a little Slack bot that runs three times a day (7 am, 1 pm, and 7 pm). And if there will be more than one inch of snow in the next 12 hours then WeatherBot will ping our Slack:
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February 12, 2017 •
To celebrate my birthday (and to mitigate cabin fever), J and I headed to the Grand Canyon.
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October 19, 2016 •
We spent (a relaxing) two days in a tiny house in the woods. We read books, napped, hiked, made pancakes, and had two campfires.
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October 1, 2016 •
On Saturday, June 18, Jason and I were married at an Airbnb on the side of a mountain near Manchester, Vermont. It ended up being more beautiful than both of us imagined.
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September 20, 2016 •
My mom and I attended the Becoming an Outdoors-Woman workshop again, this year at Greek Peak outside of Cortland, New York.
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August 10, 2016 •
Last year, Ela Conf organizers and I relied on Google Forms for women to submit anything from talks to volunteer applications. Forms worked well for us, but reviewing abstracts in a spreadsheet wasn’t exactly a fun thing to do. With the help of Zapier, I created some efficient little bots that keep us organized and motivated.
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June 8, 2016 •
I have entered my terrible terrific twos of working remotely. Working from yoga pants. Working from couch. Working from over the sink as I eat leftovers. The glamour. The rolling out of bed. The “I’m going to wake up early and walk, lol jk.”
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May 30, 2016 •
My Mapbox squad threw me a bachelorette party in the woods. We relaxed, hiked, ate, drank, and danced.
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May 8, 2016 •
Yesterday, I had the pleasure of speaking at JekyllConf. My talk, Unconventional use cases for Jekyll, is a love story about Jekyll, and ok, some of the experiments and projects I’ve made with it.
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March 20, 2016 •
We hiked around Plotters Kill Preserve by starting on the blue trail. The blue trail is nice, but has limited views of the falls. We hopped on the red trail for a bit and were able to get a better view.
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January 9, 2016 •
I love the X-Files and to celebrate the new season I created a list of episodes that I think about often.
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January 3, 2016 •
Today we hiked Bozen Kill Preserve in Altamont. It was muddy, icy, and even muddy-icy combo, but it’s a lovely trail.
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November 23, 2015 •
Earlier this year, Joni Trythall retweeted something about a new tech conference, ELA Conf, to empower women to pursue leadership roles. There was just something (re:
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October 14, 2015 •
Font Library has delicious data packed into a JSON file. I’ve had an urge to see how else I can hack the file with Jekyll and tonight I was up for the challenge.
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October 9, 2015 •
We took a three-night drive through New England with help from Hotel Tonight.
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October 4, 2015 •
This weekend my mom and I had the pleasure of attending the Becoming an Outdoors-Woman workshop at Silver Bay. BOW is an international program that focuses on educating and helping women become self-sufficient through outdoors-related skills. It’s a beautiful program with experienced instructors (who donate their time), enthusiastic volunteers, and amazing women from across the country.
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September 20, 2015 •
Yesterday morning mom and I woke up at 4:45 to catch the morning launch.
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September 5, 2015 •
Today we visited Olivia’s Overlook and then hiked the South Yokun Ridge in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
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August 23, 2015 •
We crossed trail #9 of the Albany Pine Bush Preserve off the list
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August 15, 2015 •
I recently spent some time hooking up a Jekyll site with lunr.js. Lunr.js is a full text client-side search engine and it works rather well. It took me a few tries to understand how lunr works and then translate that into a Jekyll site (I had some help from this post) so here’s a walk through of I how got it all connected.
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August 8, 2015 •
We visited the Normanskill Farm Bridge, also known as the Whipple Cast and Wrought Iron Bowstring Truss Bridge and took the yellow brick road.
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July 5, 2015
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June 19, 2015 •
Shower and change your clothes often (or daily even) Your significant other (who also works from home) isn’t your coworker — respect their time. Leave the house (even if it’s to aimlessly walk around Jo-Ann Fabrics). Don’t do house chores during work hours (because you’ll never remember to fold the laundry). Don’t do work hours during downtime (because you’ll never stop working). Have a special lunch at least once a week (order out, grill a hot dog). Hang out with your friends. Ping your coworkers just to say, Hey! Build a tabletop for the treadmill and walk 5 miles every morning1: This is how I survived winter. ↩
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June 7, 2015
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June 2, 2015 •
We spent 10 amazing days in Iceland, here’s our journey.
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April 25, 2015 •
I keep a gist named yay.md. A secret, never shared and don’t plan to, gist. It’s where I keep screenshots of my personal yays.
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April 19, 2015 •
Mom and I did the 1.3 mile hike around Thunder Mountain in Greenwich today.
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April 13, 2015 •
I worked out of the SF Mapbox office last week and then hung around for the weekend. Adventure was had (along with cocktails, sunburns, and getting 10,000 steps).
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March 29, 2015 •
A couple months ago, I was chewing on an idea for a slide for my FOSS4GNA talk and I needed to write it out. Knowing that The Pastry Box Project had opened their submissions, I worked on the idea and massaged it into something that I enjoyed.
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March 25, 2015 •
A couple weeks ago I gave my talk Writing for everyone at FOSS4G NA. I had a great time! You can click through my slides, follow along with my notes, or watch the video.
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March 18, 2015 •
Swoosh.Plunk.Flick.Flick.Flickflick.Tap.Taptaptaptaptap.Swoosh.
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March 14, 2015 •
I was in Burlingame and San Francisco this past week for FOSS4G NA. Slides and video to come, but for now:
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March 7, 2015 •
The best way down the hill is on your belly, like a penguin.
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March 4, 2015 •
A year later, I’m back chatting with Tim:
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February 21, 2015 •
Say you have a dataset for a handful of countries or all the countries, or maybe a handful of states or all the states. You want to assign your data to each state or country as a polygon of that area, not a point, so you can do fun colors or popups and make a darn cool map.
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January 29, 2015 •
After flipping through past posts, I realized that my lush green static map didn’t match wintery posts. For example, Christmas day hike. It’s winter, nothing is green. Everything is white and then gray and then cold and then sometimes sad. So I needed a map style to match winter (minus the sad).
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January 24, 2015 •
The trail was a sheet of ice, but a pretty sheet of ice.
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January 10, 2015 •
Or, how we beat cabin fever by fleeing cold New York for cold Massachusetts for one night.
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December 30, 2014 •
Way back in May, I built a pen based on MDN’s article to visualize and compare all CSS lengths. Here’s the original pen:
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December 25, 2014 •
A morning hike at the Papscanee Island Nature Preserve.
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December 19, 2014 •
I really wanted to build something last night, heck, something seasonal. Something to celebrate the fact that I’m done teaching and my free-time is katy-time.
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December 15, 2014 •
I spent last week working out of the Mapbox San Francisco office.
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November 22, 2014 •
Took the 6:15 AM train to Penn Station with a friend. Walked around, saw the Christmas show, had a delicious dinner, and then took the 5:15 PM train back to Albany.
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November 3, 2014 •
Add this post to my love-affair-with-Jekyll-and-Mapbox series.
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October 31, 2014 •
This is a devlog I wrote at Mapbox that inspired my talk Writing for everyone.
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October 26, 2014 •
A very fall hike with an old friend on trailhead 8 (Great Dune) of the Albany Pine Bush.
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October 25, 2014 •
Today we hiked up to Vroman’s Nose.
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October 21, 2014 •
We enjoyed 20 weeks of the Fox Creek Farm CSA.
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October 19, 2014 •
A college roommates weekend in Elizabethtown. A weekend way over due.
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October 3, 2014 •
We spent last weekend in Newport and the start of the week in Providence, Rhode Island.
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September 20, 2014 •
Wake up at 3:45 am. Drive to Glens Falls. Take the 5:10 city bus to the airport. Arrive at airport at 5:30. Find the coffee vendor. Stand, talk, shiver; make mental note to bring a scarf next year. Speculate if it’s too windy for flight. Rejoice as the sun rises and balloons roll out. Take pictures while trying to avoid the crowd. Take bus back to downtown. Eat breakfast at the Peppermill.
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September 2, 2014 •
For the class that I’m teaching this Fall, I created a Jekyll site to hold the course materials. I’m in the camp that Jekyll can do anything and I want to use it always.
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September 1, 2014 •
This weekend we visited our families, ate a ton a food, and hiked to Kaaterskill Falls in the Catskills.
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August 26, 2014 •
Two years ago on CodePen I was picked for the first time ever.
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August 24, 2014 •
This weekend we explored Five Rivers in Delmar.
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August 15, 2014 •
After writing the Guide to Responsive-Friendly CSS Columns on CSS-Tricks, I was invited back to write up an Almanac post for each multi-column property.
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August 10, 2014 •
Yesterday morning we work up early and drove out to North Adams to explore Cascade Falls once again.
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July 30, 2014 •
At work today, I’m styling an app. The code is automatically generated, making me a CSS jockey. It can be challenging, but it makes me flex my CSS powers. This morning I found a great use case for :empty.
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July 27, 2014 •
Yesterday we visited the Pine Hollow Arboretum in Slingerlands. We saw the sign for the arboretum during one of our drives out to Rensselaerville.
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July 26, 2014 •
I’ve done Static Google Maps Image for Jekyll Posts, Mapbox for Jekyll Posts, but it’s time to settle down.
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July 25, 2014 •
With CSS columns you can create a print-inspired layout with little added markup that can adapt beyond a fixed canvas. A supported browser will make calculations to wrap and balance content into tidy columns. If you’re already working with a fluid layout, the columns will flow automatically. With the right combination of properties, CSS columns can be an interesting layout option that is responsive-friendly while degrading gracefully.
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July 20, 2014 •
This weekend we stayed with friends in Lewis. On Saturday we woke up early to catch the town-wide garage sales in Elizabethtown in the spirit of E-town Day. Our haul included: 1 over-sized sweater, 2 books, and 3 hats.
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July 9, 2014 •
I love writing my pens in Haml, but I still have a hard time remembering the syntax. I created a post on my CodePen blog as a running reference guide of all the fun Haml snippets that I have used to date.
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June 15, 2014 •
I spent the past week visiting my sister in Asheville. That place never gets old.
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June 6, 2014
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June 5, 2014 •
A few days ago, I wanted to create a single element spinner. (Just for funsies.) After several minutes of tinkering, I whipped up Twinner Spinner.
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May 29, 2014 •
I’m a total AngularJS rube, so it took me a few tries to get Angular to work on a Jekyll site. Since both use {{ curly brackets }}, Jekyll will gobble up the brackets first. (And none for AngularJS.)
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May 25, 2014 •
We took a ride out to Rensselaerville and explored the Huyck Preserve again. We took the trail around Lake Myosotis.
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May 17, 2014 •
This morning we went to the Papscanee Island Nature Preserve in Rensselaer. We started at the north entrance of the preserve, giving us a driving tour of the Port of Rensselaer’s oil yard. We didn’t think we were in the right place, until we noticed a trail head at the end of a dead end road.
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May 5, 2014 •
I stumbled upon “Ja!” on Pinterest over the weekend. The bright colors and striking shadow drew me in. I decided to code it out with a Sass function.
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March 27, 2014 •
Given overflowing text, I always needed to stop and think if I wanted to word-break or word-wrap. I cooked up this little visual guide to help understand how each property works. Alas, the answer is truly in the property name.
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March 23, 2014 •
In 2008, I started creating a playlist for every season. I kept my playlists in iTunes, but have migrated to Rdio. These playlists are my audio diaries. I can listen to one and remember where I was, where I was going, who I was with, and how I felt. I love these playlists.
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March 19, 2014 •
The other day I came across the Dribbble shot Cross by Helvetic Brands. I loved the pixels and the animation, so I started to code it out. I used a single element to create the first pixel and then used box-shadow to generate the rest. I started to add the animation, but I spun myself in another direction.
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March 14, 2014 •
I had a nice time chatting with Chris Enns on the East Wing!
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March 14, 2014 •
I recreated Leadership Letters #2. by Jeroen van Eerden using Hugo Giraudel’s items in a circle Sass mixin and generous use of the border property.
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March 7, 2014 •
Each box below is an anchor tag with a linear-gradient. On hover, the background-position changes to reveal the second half of the link’s gradient.
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March 4, 2014 •
I am a novice ice cream maker. My qualifications include: loving the taste of ice cream.
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February 24, 2014 •
I spent an awesome week in DC.
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February 14, 2014 •
Every Valentine’s Day, I like to make my boyfriend a mushy, gushy, hand-coded card.
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February 11, 2014 •
I recently came across the website for the app THREES. One of my favorite parts of the website is at the bottom. As you scroll, the phone glides down the page and ends up in a pocket, where an app store button awaits you.
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February 2, 2014 •
This weekend we celebrated my birthday in a cabin in Wells, NY.
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January 30, 2014 •
I created another scalable, chameleon, single element project. This is based off of the Dribbble shot, Power Up Preloader by Mantas Bačiuška.
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January 26, 2014 •
As of 7/26/2014, this site has moved to the Mapbox static API.
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January 15, 2014 •
I have another single element project! I explored the Dribbble shot Escape by Carla Corrales.
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January 12, 2014 •
Today my folks and I explored the Dean Farm Heritage Trail in Stony Creek. The trail was fairly easy to navigate as it was marked with wooden poles. We were impressed by all the beautiful bridges, benches, and overlook points.
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January 11, 2014
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January 3, 2014 •
I recreated the Dribbble shot Flat icon by Bosco.
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January 1, 2014 •
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January 1, 2014 •
I knew that I wanted to code out the Dribbble shot END by Catt as a single element. I planned on using the main element for the text and pseudo elements to create the tails of the ribbon.
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December 23, 2013 •
I coded out the Dribbble shot, Food by nos, and added some hover pizazz.
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December 19, 2013 •
I whipped up a little animation in honor of the holidays.
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December 9, 2013 •
I never fully understood the values of animation-direction, the property that tells the animation in which direction to play. It’s difficult to differentiate between normal, reverse, alternate, and alternate-reverse without a visual reference. I created the animation above to show all the values of animation-direction.
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December 6, 2013 •
I love trying to find different ways to get a job done. Especially when it means using a certain piece of technology in an unexpected way. Maybe the job is silly, but it’s the problem solving that I really, truly dig.
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December 4, 2013 •
The .box is a single element. I used the transform property and pseudo elements to achieve the result.
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November 24, 2013 •
Saturday morning we visited the Albany Pine Bush at Karner Barrens East & West. We took the blue trail to the yellow. Despite the chill, it was a really nice 2.6 mile hike and it only took us about an hour.
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November 20, 2013 •
I built this fun little animation from Beard Chicken’s Dribbble shot. (The animation will only run a couple of times here, but on CodePen it’s infinite… hypnotizing even.)
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November 18, 2013 •
Saturday night I had an all out snack attack. Right before heading to the store to pick-up rice krispies treat supplies, my boyfriend asked for pretzels. So I added yeast to my list.
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November 11, 2013 •
Tea
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November 5, 2013 •
I saw this Dribbble shot and decided to spin out a few ideas. I ended up creating customizable, random-generated, scalable balloons!
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November 3, 2013 •
On Sunday, mom drove down for part of the day. We grabbed lunch at the Pump Station and then explored the Albany Rural Cemetery. I got the idea to check out the cemetery from All Over Albany.
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November 1, 2013 •
For this pen, I made each ice cream a single element. I used border-top for the pink section, border-bottom for the green section, and background for the yellow section. The inner ice cream shadow is a :before and the stick is an :after.
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October 29, 2013 •
Today at work I needed to move and rename a ton of files, but I also needed to make sure that the Git history followed. When I tried to move the files manually, SourceTree thought I deleted the files and then created new files elsewhere. When I commit files like this, SourceTree is usually smart enough to catch on, but it wasn’t happening. No good.
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October 27, 2013 •
Another Dribbble shot turned code. Hover for zombification.
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October 20, 2013 •
On Saturday, I woke up early and drove down to Greenwich, CT. A good friend of mine moved down there earlier this year with her husband. She showed me their new place and around town. We ordered sushi to-go and enjoyed it on the beach. It was a really great day.
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October 14, 2013 •
Mount Baker
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October 10, 2013 •
Another Dribbble shot for the books. This time it’s Navigation Bar by Jan Kaděra. I did my own interpreting for the hover. So please, give that nav a hover!
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October 6, 2013 •
Saturday
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September 30, 2013 •
A Dribbble shot that I coded out and added some fun transitions on hover.
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September 29, 2013 •
For this site I wanted my categories to be color coded, but I didn’t want to put a lot of effort into managing it. Instead I spent a little effort into making sure I didn’t have to manage it.
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September 28, 2013 •
We woke up early and drove out to Mount Greylock in Mass. It was a gorgeous morning!
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September 23, 2013 •
After working with Google Static Maps for some of my posts (re: Static Google Maps Image for Jekyll Posts), I started scheming on an easier way to arrive at a map. I thought this might be helpful for other people too.
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September 21, 2013 •
Balloon Festival
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September 18, 2013 •
I could not have made this without Haml and Sass.
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September 17, 2013 •
This is typical list-style navigation, in that the dropdown/accordion effect is a nested list.
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September 14, 2013 •
This weekend I had the privilege of decorating a friend’s wedding at the Wilburton Inn in Manchester, Vermont. As payment, my boyfriend and I got to stay all weekend at the Inn. It was an excellent trade!
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September 13, 2013 •
I use VSCO Cam regularly for iPhone photo editing. The loading animation of the VSCO Cam logo had intrigued me for a while, so I decided to write it out.
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September 13, 2013 •
The effect is achieved on a single element using the properties border and box-sizing.
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September 6, 2013 •
As of 7/26/2014, this site has moved to the Mapbox static API.
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September 5, 2013 •
After creating the Haml calendar, I decided to go for a Haml clock.
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September 5, 2013 •
Beautiful morning.
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September 4, 2013 •
Original design by Rovane Durso.
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September 3, 2013 •
Original design by Ben Bate.
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August 31, 2013 •
Mom and I went on a Washington County/Vermont adventure today.
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August 28, 2013 •
As a kid, I remember drawing a picture of a bird on one side of paper and a cage on the other. When you spin it back and forth quickly, it seems that the bird is in the cage. Here’s a take on that.
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August 27, 2013 •
My first try Angular form validation.
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August 26, 2013 •
While I was looking through the Haml docs today, I found the ability to print out the date. My gears started spinning. Why not create a calendar?
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August 24, 2013 •
We woke up early and drove up to Moreau Lake State Park for a hike.
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August 21, 2013 •
A nice after work drive to shoot star photos, but the moon was too bright.
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August 19, 2013 •
I gave a few optical illusions a try to flex my Sass skills. You can find the source file for each illusion in the JS tab.
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August 18, 2013
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August 14, 2013
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August 12, 2013 •
This past winter I decided that I wanted to grow food. More specifically, I wanted to wake up in my Albany studio apartment, reach my hand to my windowsill, and pick food off of my plants.
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August 10, 2013 •
See the Pen Simple border-width loader by Katy DeCorah (
@katydecorah) on CodePen
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August 7, 2013 •
A few days ago I saw Forebruary by Ilya Birman; a calendar that doesn’t need replacing! Naturally, I needed to figure this out, CodePen style.
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August 6, 2013 •
I’ve been into simple shapes lately. I found this interesting logo on Dribbble and decided to try it out.
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August 5, 2013 •
Another Dribbble inspired project!
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August 4, 2013 •
This weekend I visited my college roommate in Lake Placid. We walked around Mirror Lake once a day, ate delicious food, and people watched. It was refreshing!
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August 1, 2013 •
After creating the CSS Diamond I tried to replicate this Dribbble. I created a list item for each petal. They are all ovals with transparent border-left and border-right and then rotated respectively.
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August 1, 2013 •
I decided to try to create a CodePen from a Dribbble. I started with Sticker Rebound by Ilja Miskov.
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August 1, 2013 •
After I showed my boyfriend the CSS Octagon, he pointed out that when the octagon has no width, it looks like a bicycle wheel.
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July 27, 2013
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July 25, 2013 •
See the Pen Simple chart by Katy DeCorah (
@katydecorah) on CodePen
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July 20, 2013
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July 8, 2013 •
Lake Placid
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July 4, 2013
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July 3, 2013 •
Update 9/12/2013 I received many requests on CodePen to make this pen its own page. So here is the Google Font Explorer!
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June 22, 2013 •
Awesome 2.7 mile hike to the Snow Hole in the Taconic Mountains. No snow in the hole, but we had a good time exploring inside and enjoying the temperature difference.
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June 2, 2013 •
This weekend we woke up early and drove out to North Adams, Massachusetts. We took a 20-minute muddy hike through the woods and ended up at a waterfall.
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May 28, 2013 •
I’m always trying to find the optimal line length for my text. After reading several posts, I found that the sweet spot is around 66 characters. While styling my paragraphs I started counting the characters manually. That got old, real fast.
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May 19, 2013 •
I had the distinct honor of being in two weddings this month.
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May 16, 2013 •
I came in second place during week one season two of the CodePen Rodeo!
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May 4, 2013 •
Rensselaerville
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April 19, 2013 •
I created a functioning combination lock.
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April 7, 2013 •
My sister moved to North Carolina a few years ago. Since then my folks and I make an annual trip down to visit.
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March 24, 2013 •
I made these cupcakes for a certain amazing person’s birthday!
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March 16, 2013 •
We drove out for the day for some exploring. I scored this neat shot of Albany through a coin-operated binocular.
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February 15, 2013 •
Traveled up to Lake Placid for the weekend with a college roommate, to visit our other college roommate. She had a nice birthday surprise waiting for me!
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January 13, 2013 •
You too can bring candy sushi magic to your home. Below is a basic write-up of what I did, but free-styling is encouraged.
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January 9, 2013 •
If you have a color that you would like to adjust in Sass, but don’t feel like guess and checking, then try out this little tool.
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January 8, 2013 •
Single element, lots of text-shadow.
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January 1, 2013