Things I wrote
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Yesterday on The Pastry Box, Ed Finkler wrote a piece called <em>The Developer's Dystopian Future</em>. I read it while eating my brekkie and it struck a chord with me.
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Highlights from tiny beautiful things
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I have written about my dislike of the word busy and especially how it is used in our culture. The cult of busy and the need for people to out busy each other, along with it being a rote answer to the question "How are you?" is something that continues to bother me.
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This past weekend, I finished reading <em>Bird by Bird</em> by Anne Lamott. It was a great read with lots of tidbits I immediately wanted to record somewhere. And then the problem came up, where to record them?
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Highlights from Bird by Bird
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My site is a little different today and will be for about a week or so. This site has gone purple, in honor of a little girl who fought bravely against cancer.
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The last month or so has seen me reading voraciously. I've been spending most, if not all sometimes, of my weekends reading books.
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I've been fortunate in the last few months to work on quite a few different projects and each one has had unique needs. I've refactored and cleaned up code, I've added on to an existing application, I've created a layout system and taken care of front ends needs for an application, and I've done a CSS audit.
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Recently I tweeted a lot about flexbox, both asking for resources and then later, professing my love for it. Before my most recent project, I had dabbled in flexbox just a bit, mostly using it for any side by side layout I needed on this site.
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In my first months of freelancing I've been juggling two very different types of projects. One is working with a startup and creating their front end layout system and all that goes along with that. The other is refactoring an existing site. While both types of projects have been enjoyable, I gotta say, I am starting to love the refactor.
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As a follow up to my article on A List Apart I thought I would put together a list of links that have been extremely helpful to me as I've thought about style guides.
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I was just published for the first time; it was also the first time I worked with a professional editor to get an article in tip top shape. The entire experience was fantastic and I learned a lot about writing, word choice, and how to shape a piece.
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This past week I delved deeply into the world of flexbox for the very first time for a client project. Finally letting go of floats for layout is the biggest change to the way I'm writing CSS since I started this whole thing.
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If you follow me on twitter, than you know I've gone freelance. I haven't written about it in this space yet, because I've been busy — which is a good thing. But not sharing this news in this space doesn't feel right, so here I am talking about it.
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When we worked together, framework free, and he pushed at me try new things, we weren't constrained.