Blog – Page 2

1. Documents, apps, Tailwind, and The Web

   November 9, 2023

   Is the web an app development platform, does Tailwind make it one, and what does that mean for the web?

2. Making a plucky web component

   November 6, 2023

   Some reflections on the process of removing external dependencies and componentizing wavy underlines.

3. (Old) hypertext in (new) hypertext

   July 11, 2023

   Replicating the unique layout of a daf of Talmud in a web browser

4. A brief history of מה אשיב/Ma Ashiv

   April 30, 2023

   A quick search into the history of a Hallel song

5. Simplenote to Bear importer

   April 24, 2023

   A quick Python script to get notes from Simplenote to Bear with tags and dates intact

6. Super-hacky, fragile list of icons with no-script search

   March 8, 2023

   Every time you use this trick it’s really quite atrocious

7. SVG-free graphs with D3 and CSS layouts

   February 22, 2023

   Designing a bar graph with just HTML and CSS, and building it with D3

8. 🚇 CTA ‘L’ sign CSS

   January 27, 2023

   Making a Chicago Transit Authority ‘L’ sign with just HTML and CSS

9. Reminiscing about audio formats

   January 26, 2023

   I share a couple memories of old audio formats for the Twenty Thousand Hertz podcast

10. Call audio update: Audio Hijack

    January 10, 2023

    A quick tour through using Audio Hijack and BlackHole to route and process my call audio.

11. Capitalism and the Big Bang

    January 2, 2023

    Wealth distribution in the economy may not be so unlike matter distribution in the universe.

12. ∿ Waves! Part 2: plucky underline

    December 27, 2022

    How I made my main nav links wiggle.

13. Moving In: What makes a computer feel like home

    December 5, 2022

    New computer day at work got me thinking about my Mac setup.

14. 🌊 Waves! Part 1: scroll phaser

    November 28, 2022

    A walkthrough of the math and code I used to generate a page header that’s wavy when scrolled.

15. The Logo

    November 13, 2022

    The story of how my grandfather’s career influenced mine, and how my logo is a tribute to that history.

16. There is no vaccine for climate change

    May 9, 2021

17. Encode Mighty Things

    March 22, 2021

18. Telephone colophon: Or, how I overengineered my call audio

    December 27, 2020

    I walk through how and why I routed my call audio through a DAW

19. Entropic Timer: The Information Entropy of Crossing the Street

    December 1, 2019

    Thinking too hard (with math) about 7-segment displays

20. Is yontef early this year (dot com)

    December 3, 2018