I should have emphasized “pure CSS. The fastest and easiest way to accomplish this effect is using an SCSS preprocessor. It has the darken feature built in, which will take care of about 85% of your needs.

Can learning to ski can make you a better designer? As I was packing up for a weekend away at the slopes, this question popped into my head. I didn’t know the answer, but it sounded interesting, and that’s a perfect recipe for ChatGPT. I asked ChatGPT this question and…

As the sabbatical comes to a close, I am looking back over what I made of these 15 weeks and realizing I was busy. Here are 15 things I am delighted to have accomplished in the 15 weeks of my sabbatical. 1. Completing a Design Thinking certification from Stanford University Graduate School of Business. I timed this sabbatical to get a certification in…

In short, it can’t be done seamlessly; the default file types, snagproj and snagx are proprietary and only operate within the Snagit tool. On my Mac, I cannot pull these file types into Preview, Photoshop, or any other conversion, so this limitation takes automation tools like Hazel off the table. …

I scoured the Internet for clarity on why the Codekit partials I created would not compile into the pages of my static site. I found no reference, so I am writing one to help you and remind my future self. TL:DR — Make sure the files importing the partials are…