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Site overhaul

I was inspired as of late and finally moved off the default WordPress theme. I wrote my own theme based on Rin, so the blog now has a new skin. I also overhauled happinwater.com — the previous design was so bad it hurt me. You can see the new design was heavily influenced by Mandhaus, [...]

Hex RGB shorthand, news to me

I was trying to debug the behavior of a page at work today and running in circles because I couldn’t match a color on the page to a css style. Most of the colors in the stylesheet used a 3 digit hex notation for the color (e.g. color: #346). I couldn’t match these colors to [...]

Seven years of learning in 535 words

We were having goodbye beer at the Tied House in my final days at Mercury and Jeremy ambushed me by asking me to reflect on what I had learned while I was at Chain Link, Kintana, and then Mercury. After four or five beers I’m sure I said something brilliant, but I thought I should [...]