November 30th, 2024 · 3min read
Writing Apps
Me musing about procrastination and creative writing and how that relates to my tendency to create new creative writing apps instead of writing creatively.
October 27th, 2024 · 5min read
Goodbye Fable
Software I like keeps going away and I don’t have enough time to create everything I want to use…the latest entry in this unfortunate saga: Fable, the animation app that could’ve been the Figma for motion design…
September 30th, 2024 · 4min read
Images Stretching CSS Grid Rows
I was struggling to get an image to not stretch out a grid row without a fixed height this month and eventually stumbled over a solution that fixes the problem in some cases, so I decided to share it!
August 30th, 2024 · 8min read
Figma Updates
I know I’m a bit late to the party, but it took a while for me to get access to the new features—and by the time I did, the generative “AI” to make designs had already been disabled again. Not that
July 15th, 2024 · 5min read
A client:if directive in Astro
I’ve long wanted to be able to hydrate a framework component in Astro based on a prop. With custom client directives, I was finally able to add one that does just that and here’s how you can do so too!
June 29th, 2024 · 5min read
Open Source
I’ve been writing software for more than a decade now—yet I haven’t released any of it as an open-source project, despite knowing how important that is for our society. Here’s why, and why that’s going to change.
May 30th, 2024 · 5min read
Turning Thirty
I turned thirty this month and even though everyone insists on age being just a number, everyone around me also insists on what a big deal this specific birthday is. So I guess it’s only natural that
April 30th, 2024 · 8min read
Penpot 2.0
Penpot has come a long way since I reviewed its first Alpha release three years ago. They recently released their big 2.0 update and I thought it only fitting to give it another go and see what has changed.
March 27th, 2024 · 11min read
I Bought an iPhone
This could’ve been a very different article—but thankfully Apple came to their senses and I can write the review I originally intended to write after buying an iPhone for the first time in my life
February 18th, 2024 · 4min read
Embracing Abandonment
I love building things—but I’m just a single person with a pretty busy life. So sometimes, some of my projects stop getting the love they deserve—but does that mean they have to be deleted?