PinnedPure CSS Art, one HTML tag — My Divtober 2023 collectionA look at Divtober 2023, a month of building CSS Art based on a daily prompt, utilizing only one single HTML div. Here are the results…Oct 31, 20231Oct 31, 20231
Pinned31 CSS Art pieces, one HTML tag — My Divtober 2022 CollectionA look back at #divtober 2022, the month of building CSS art with as much CSS as you like the challenge of using only one single HTML div.Oct 31, 20221Oct 31, 20221
Margin Call Me: How I Misused AI to Deliver Cheesy Financial Pickup LinesAn AI-based Valentine’s gift. A GPT trained to create cringe-worth finance-themed pickup lines delivered by a flirting cartoon bull.Feb 14Feb 14
Building a Dynamic Word Carousel Card with Pure CSSCreate a dynamic word carousel using pure CSS! Showcase itemswith smooth animations in a clean, reusable component — no JavaScript.Jan 21Jan 21
Three Decades, Three Influences to Owning My Financial FutureWhen it comes to your finances, who are your influences? My answer would depend upon when you are asking.Apr 24, 2023Apr 24, 2023
The Best Advice for Designers that Designers Will Not Want to ReadIronically, a group that Designers do not provide enough understanding and empathy toward is the group that signs their paychecks.Apr 19, 2023Apr 19, 2023
The Most Contrarian Book I’ve Read on Saving for Retirement (or Not)“Die with Zero” contradicts every other personal finance book I’ve ever read about how and why to saving for retirement.Apr 18, 2023Apr 18, 2023
How an Ice Cream Cone turned me into User Experience DesignerThe butterfly effect in action, how a dropped ice cream set me on the path to building the career in design, I have today.Apr 13, 2023Apr 13, 2023
Published inBootcampCan Learning to Ski teach you about User Experience Design? ChatGPT thinks soCan going skiing can make you a better designer? I didn’t know, but it sounded interesting, and that’s a perfect recipe for ChatGPT.Jan 23, 20231Jan 23, 20231
15 Accomplishments in 15 Weeks of SabbaticalAs it comes to a close, I am looking back over 15 things I accomplished in the 15 weeks I have been on sabbatical.Jan 3, 20232Jan 3, 20232
Is Iconography really just Clip Art?The feedback I received on a design was to “remove the clip art.” I was perplexed; there wasn’t any clip art on the page. As a designer, I…Dec 21, 2022Dec 21, 2022
Five Ways Iconography Benefits the Users and the BusinessIconography — or symbols representing ideas or concepts — can be a powerful tool in design and communication. Not only can it help to…Dec 21, 2022Dec 21, 2022
How to get SnagIt to convert to PNG images automatically.In short, it can’t be done seamlessly; the default file types, snagproj and snagx are proprietary and only operate within the Snagit tool.Nov 22, 2022Nov 22, 2022
How to lighten/darken a page and background gradients with pure CSSFinding pure CSS solutions to animate the darkening of both the foreground elements on a page and the background gradients too.Oct 2, 2022Oct 2, 2022
How to use Codekit .kit partials on your siteI discovered the simple reason why the Codekit partials would not compile into the pages of my static site…Jan 21, 2022Jan 21, 2022
My kids convinced me we should invest in Roblox (RBLX)I bought both of my daughters’ shares of the recently IPO’d Roblox (RBLX) in their UGMA (aka children’s) brokerage accounts. This stock…Mar 19, 2021Mar 19, 2021
How the Super Bowl can help us understand Hedge FundsI realized I didn’t really understand hedging or what a hedge fund was, so I dug into that and found the Super Bowl helped me make sense ofFeb 7, 2021Feb 7, 2021
What is happening with GameStop (for non-financial people)I was asked what was happening with GameStop, and I am no expert, but was following the story, so I wrote this to help make sense of it.Jan 30, 2021Jan 30, 2021
