Making software better without sacrificing user experience.

As a designer/developer hybrid, I help software companies improve their user experience and ship more performant products. I also actively maintain several open source projects.

I'm passionate about open source software, usability, performance, privacy, and minimal design. This small piece of the internet stores a growing collection of my personal brain dumps.

Skills & Languages

Core tools are Figma, HTML, CSS, JavaScript & WordPress. Currently improving my skills with Ruby, Rails, MySQL & PHP. I also enjoy tinkering with basic shell scripts and Unix systems.

Design Thought Experiments

Stop Using Hamburger Menus (Sometimes)
Common performance and accessibility issues caused by using hamburger menus.

Better Search Results
Rethinking the UX flow of modern search engines.

My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee
How products should focus on doing one thing very well.

Blog Anonymously
A basic starting point for those wishing to blog privately.

Articles & Tutorials

2023-09-26The X220 ThinkPad is the Best Laptop in the World
2023-09-11Installing Older Versions of MongoDB on Arch Linux
2023-07-21Converting HEIF Images with macOS Automator
2023-06-24Blogging for 7 Years
2023-06-13Improving Laptop Battery Performance on OpenBSD
2023-06-05Running VSCode in Chromium on OpenBSD
2023-05-19My Robotic Mower Woes
2023-05-11Working with `git` Patches in Apple Mail
2023-05-05Stop Using Hamburger Menus (Sometimes)
2023-05-01Converting My X201 ThinkPad into a Slabtop
2023-04-25Applying Email-Based Git Patches in Evolution on Linux
2023-04-13Launching Sublime Text with dmenu on Alpine Linux
2023-04-11HTML Dark Mode
2023-04-02Bypassing the WiFi Hardware Switch on the Lenovo X201
2023-03-16Installing Ruby with RVM on Alpine Linux
2023-03-14Stop Using Custom Web Fonts
2023-03-09Replacing My Eero Mesh Network with Two Mangos
2023-03-03Why I Stopped Using an External Monitor
2023-02-08Dynamic Viewports with CSS
2023-01-09My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee
2022-12-23I Want to Suckless and You Can Too
2022-12-08Adventures in Creating a Minimal Alpine Linux Installer
2022-12-02Building openring with Jekyll Build
2022-11-23Do You Have an Extra $10?
2022-11-22Embracing Slow Tech
2022-11-14Migrating from GitHub to sourcehut
2022-11-07Never Do Spec Work for Free
2022-11-04Setting Up AdGuard Home with Eero
2022-10-14Avoiding Featurism
2022-10-03Simplifying the Craigslist Gallery
2022-09-22RE: Creating a Simple HTML/CSS Notice Box
2022-09-20Installing Custom Fonts on Linux from the Command Line
2022-09-19Setup Jekyll from Scratch on a New Linux System
2022-09-10Don't Make a Blog, Make a Brain Dump
2022-09-08A Warning for New Designers: Avoid Dribbble
2022-09-02 Setting Up Jekyll on Windows
2022-08-12Looping Through Jekyll Collections
2022-08-02Making a Website Under 1kB
2022-07-29Hosting with Codeberg Pages
2022-07-14The Linux Desktop is Hard to Love
2022-07-06Yet Another Static Site Generator Switch
2022-06-29Happily Paying For macOS Apps
2022-06-20Clickable Links Inside XML
2022-05-30Schools Should Be Using Open Source Software
2022-05-23RSS Hacks With XSLT
2022-05-17Two Weeks with the DuckDuckGo Browser
2022-05-13This Site is Now a Shinobi Website
2022-04-18Dear Apple, Please Fix Safari's Default Dark Mode Link Color
2022-03-21My Static Blog Publishing Setup and an Apology to RSS Subscribers
2022-03-14Setting Up a Pi-hole Server with Eero
2022-03-12Transferring Media from macOS to a Jellyfin Server (Raspberry Pi 4)
2022-02-23February 2022 Update
2022-02-03My Cheapskate Commenting System
2022-01-28Convert Files to HTML with macOS Automator Quick Actions
2022-01-06Chrome OS Could Become the Future Leader of Computing
2021-12-17Icons Should be Complementary - Text is Always Better
2021-12-06Hosting a Jekyll Site on Sourcehut
2021-12-03Using Netlify for Dynamic URL Redirects
2021-11-25Using a New Domain and Switching Static Hosts
2021-11-09Modern Improvements for Default Browser Styles
2021-11-03A Reality Where CSS and JavaScript Don't Exist
2021-10-28Setting Up 1.1.1.1 for Families on a Pi-Hole
2021-10-15Batch Converting Images to webp with macOS Automator
2021-09-23Enabling Safari Extensions with the macOS Catalina Patcher
2021-09-08Create a Performance-Focused WordPress Blog
2021-08-13Stuffing an SSD Inside the Raspberry Pi 400
2021-07-24Sharing The Things We Use
2021-06-20PS4 Download UI with Pure CSS
2021-06-07CSS Slope Graphs
2021-05-29SOMA Inspired Terminal Display with CSS
2021-05-19My Changing Opinion on Personal Website Design
2021-04-27Shiny, Animated CSS Buttons
2021-04-2289 Blog Posts in a Single HTML File
2021-04-13Create a Mac App Icon with Pure HTML and CSS
2021-04-12The Lazy Developer's Dark Mode
2021-03-25Click to Load Website Images
2021-03-11Introducing PageRoast
2021-02-25ThriftyName: $5 Brand Names
2021-02-02Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean
2021-01-19Setting Up Fathom Analytics with Netlify
2021-01-13Introducing Notez
2021-01-05Animated Radio Tab Toggles
2020-12-28Disabling Comments in WordPress
2020-12-08Pure CSS Bar Graphs with Graceful Mobile Fallbacks
2020-12-04Obvious Javascript 'Injection' Fallback
2020-11-09Bidirectional Scrolling: Why Not Both?
2020-10-19Menu Toggle with Pure CSS
2020-10-07Poor Man's CSS Full-Bleed Layout
2020-09-29Simple Navigation Setup in Jekyll 3.9.0
2020-09-16Portable Pi: Cheap Raspberry Pi Zero Hacker Terminal
2020-09-09Over-Engineering an Oil Tank Gauge
2020-09-02My Raspberry Pi Desktop
2020-08-16Linux Mint MacBook Air Setup
2020-08-13Goodbye WordPress, Hello Jekyll (Again)
2020-07-07Improving Github's New Design
2020-06-22Keynote Slides with Pure CSS
2020-06-14Audio Hotkeys on Linux Mint
2020-06-04Quick and Dirty Theme Switcher
2020-05-13Mini Interactive Keyboard with Pure CSS
2020-05-06Fixing LocalWP on Fedora 32
2020-05-05WP Enqueue for Beginners
2020-04-29Faking 3D Elements with CSS
2020-03-31Stripe Menu Dropdowns (CSS)
2020-03-18Base64 All The Things! (Sometimes)
2020-02-07How to "FLOSS" as a Web Designer
2020-01-07Web Development on a $200 Chromebook
2019-11-29Billing for One CSS Change
2019-11-13Very Basic Form Styling
2019-11-01Improving Tufte CSS for Jekyll
2019-10-06Stop Using Sticky Navigation on Mobile
2019-09-28Being More Efficient as a Designer and Developer
2019-09-09Plain Text Emails, Please
2019-07-30Dynamic Checkboxes
2019-07-17Styling Empty Table Cells
2019-07-05Using HTML Validator Badges Again
2019-06-25They Won't Wait: A Warning for Slow Websites
2019-06-20Publishing Simple Books With Jekyll
2019-06-14Using Hamburger Menus? Try Sausage Links
2019-06-11Making Tables Responsive With Minimal CSS
2019-06-06Write HTML Like It's 1999
2019-06-04Using User-Select
2019-05-29News Websites Are Dumpster Fires
2019-05-22Text Align: Justify
2019-05-15Improving Receipt UX
2019-05-09Cut Your Forms in Half
2019-05-03First Letter Pseudo Element
2019-04-26Minimal CSS: Dropdown Menu
2019-04-23CSS Character Unit
2019-04-20Browser History Sucks
2019-04-15Yes, I Still Use jQuery
2019-04-13CSS Value: `currentColor`
2019-04-05CSS: Indenting Text
2019-03-26Simple Does Not Mean Ugly
2019-03-25Skip to Content Button
2019-03-13Prescription Form UI Improvements
2019-02-27Animated Card Tiles
2019-02-18Easy Toggle Switches
2019-02-15Super Mario Blocks in CSS
2019-02-05Proper UI Hierarchy
2019-01-28Tabbed Content Without JavaScript
2019-01-21Easy Custom Radio Inputs
2019-01-15Basic Gulp Build for Sass
2019-01-08Better Box Shadows
2019-01-06Over-Nesting
2018-12-19Using Parent Selectors in CSS
2018-11-28Width or Flex-Basis?
2018-11-22Adaptable Flexbox Grid
2018-10-18What Happened to Self-Hosted Blogs?
2018-09-28Using Multiple CSS Background Images
2018-09-20Pure CSS Simple Dropdown Plugin
2018-09-07Simple Accessibility
2018-08-07Setting Up a Free SSL
2018-04-16CSS Video Backgrounds
2018-03-24CSS Variables
2018-02-12Stay Hungry
2018-01-25Open Source Typeface Pairings
2018-01-14ET-Jekyll Theme
2017-11-20Chasing Performance
2017-11-01The Death of Personality
2017-10-10Unsolicited Design Review - Dropbox
2017-09-07Goodbye CSS Preprocessors
2017-07-10Designers Need Thicker Skin
2016-11-15The Wonders of Text Ellipsis
2016-06-28Aqua UI CSS Buttons