closetgeekshow.caI built a shitty landing page but it only took me like 15 minutes!I've been looking at Destack for a while, late last year, I tried and abysmally failed at making a visual website builder using GrapesJS. It was a little too big of a thing to attempt all by myself, it did not go well, that project is frigging hard t...Jul 13, 2024·1 min read
closetgeekshow.caUnexpected: LinkedIn is a fun place to beThis morning, while catching up on newsletters, I read a devlog for an asset pack on itch.io (of all places). There, I learned some news that's a few months old by now: LinkedIn is getting some games - I'm kind of excited about it. ❕ No slight to Ma...May 31, 2024·4 min read
closetgeekshow.caUnpacking Cognitive LoadI found Beth J's recent post "The lazy load, endless scroll, and color slicing have to go" to be a thought-provoking read. I found myself connecting it with a number of things I've read recently that I'll try to link to as I go. It really made me ref...Apr 26, 2024·7 min read
closetgeekshow.caFrom Pack Rat to Cyber SquirrelI collect too many links. I was a pack rat as a kid, my locker overflowing with random knick-knacks and other garbage I didn't need but felt compelled to hoard. As I became an adult got older, that behaviour transitioned to collecting things I found ...Jun 14, 2023·5 min read
closetgeekshow.caDipping my toes in GitHubI made and published a Javascript bookmarklet thing this weekend as an exercise to practice my coding skills, learn how to manage a public GitHub repo and automate a manual task that took me way too long. Only relevant to the UX Designers/Interacti...Jun 12, 2023·1 min read