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Why Write?
I write about my work to help me better understand what I think, why I do what I do, and to help others. Sometimes I'm just showing off.
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Building My First PWA
Progressive Web Apps or Sites or whatever you want to call them are incredible. I finally made one. This is a long post about my process.
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Starting Something New
On September 13, 2017 Chris Dary and I launched our new business, Limbo. This is a short story about how it came to be and what I think about it.
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The Impact of Flash
An exchange with a fellow designer about the end of Flash has me pausing and thinking about the technology’s impact on me and the Web.
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New ColorMe Features
After two weeks of usage and great feedback, I made a handful of bug fixes and feature additions to the tiny color tweaker that could.
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Introducing: ColorMe
ColorMe is a site I built to make working with the CSS Color Function easier. It provides a UI for applying adjusters to a base color and gives a visual of the adjustments.
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From Sass to PostCSS
Sass has been my go-to for years. But for a while now, I've wanted to try a new styling setup with PostCSS and cssnext. This is an account of the steps I took to make the change.
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Rewriting Day Player for Sketch 40+
The Sketch team provides a robust, ever-evolving plugin environment. My placeholder image plugin was in need of a rewrite to get it up to speed with the latest plugin practices.
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Overawe
For a few months in 2015 I spent my nights and weekends building a strange little art project. I used HTML/CSS/JS to create a world where narration is unreliable, messages are inconsistent, and sometimes it’s all just a joke.
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Building OS X Apps with JavaScript
OS X Yosemite introduced JavaScript for Automation. This makes it possible to build native OS X apps using good ol’ JS. This article covers the basics and walks through building an example app.
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Media Seek from URL
I wrote a quick bit of JavaScript to control the time position of audio and video elements via a URL query string. As a bonus I modded the script to work with embedded Soundcloud players.
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How I Manage Nginx Config
NGINX site configuration is fairly straightforward, but managing the files for it can be a bit cumbersome. I use git and Github to make the process quicker and more comfortable.
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A Logo Design Process
I wanted a new logo/branding for a redesign of this site and for other promotional crud; business cards, stickers, coozys, whatever's cool. Here's a look into the creation process.
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How I Start
Starting a new design is an exciting, weird, and sometimes frustrating process. No two designs start the same way, but for me, they tend to follow similar paths. This is a look into how I'm starting a redesign of my site.
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CSS True Titles
The opening titles of the show True Detective are incredible. I wanted to see if I could create a similar style title sequence using CSS.
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2000 Days
After an incredible 5+ years, I made the difficult decision to move on from my position at Arc90 and Readability. This is an account of my time there.
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Papersaver
I love drawing goofy things with Paper. I wanted a quick way to put all those goofy drawings on the Web.
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Slenderman
Branching out and trying something new with this one. I walk through the work that went into creating my first typeface.
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WebVTT Cuemarker
The Web Video Text Track format is easy enough to work with, but marking cue times can be a bit of a chore. I wrote a small tool to make it a little easier.
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Get Together. Get Excited. Get to Work.
Brooklyn is the place to be the second week of October 2012. If you're looking to meet new folks and build an awesome project, we have just the event for you.
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Reacting to Media Queries in JavaScript
I was looking for a way for Javascript to know when a media query condition was met or not met. While window.matchMedia provides the main functionality, I wanted something that was a little more automatic.
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Fun with HTML Form Validation Styles
HTML form validation is evolving in a big way. In this little ditty I lay out a process for making browser generated validation errors super cool!
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A Small Redesign with a Little Sugar
Side projects can be great opportunities to flex some muscle on new skills. In this article I discuss doing just that with a side project in need of a facelift.
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All Talkie Talkie
I've been attending the Refresh NYC meet-ups as of late. At our last meet-up I volunteered to do a presentation on some new and exciting things happening with CSS.
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You Did What with What?
It was a silly "pop-in-your-head-in-the-shower" idea. Kinetic type with CSS. Is that possible? Will browsers just die under the stress? I had to find out.
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I Less Than Three IE6
Web design is hard, that's why it's fun and why not everyone does it. With this I'll explain why I take some joy in dealing with the sticky situations that "that" browser gets me in.
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Ch-ch-ch-changes!
Version 2 of tylergaw.com carried me through a year of freelancing and helped me land my current gig at Arc90. But after two years it's starting to show its age. Version 3 is a step in a new direction and as always a challenging and fun undertaking.