The Four Day Week
In 2010 I began to dream about working a four day week. “What could be better than long weekends every week!?” I would ask my wife. At the time my motivation was time-squandering laziness. In the fall...
View ArticleFITC Web Unleashed 2014
Last month I attended the FITC conference in Toronto. My biggest take-away was about Web Components (using the Polymer polyfill for now). HTML includes will be a game changer in general, but I’m...
View ArticleEmbrace your Bounce Rate
Yesterday I had a fresh mind-blowing thought about Bounce Rates. Google defines a website Bounce as: “the percentage of visits in which users view only a single page of your site” – Yesterday for the...
View ArticleMagic Transfer Protocol!
mtp:// is my new favourite protocol. I use it all the time; specifically when explaining how modern web development tools work. Let’s face it: generally speaking the inner workings of tools like...
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Colemak for kids
I did a bunch of keyboard layout research this weekend. It’s a simple fact that my kids are going to be nerds; I’m not sure what kind they will become, but I predict they will spend more time on...
View ArticleWriting for the web industry
I’ve had the opportunity to write for a few notable industry journals, and I’ve been asked a number of times how this came to be by those wanting to get into it. I’ll sum it up. TLDR: Just ask....
View ArticleWWJNTOOHE (What Would Jesus Name This Object Oriented HTML Element)?
I love CSS, and I really love OOCSS. To me being Object Oriented means two things: breaking down patterns, and using a clear easy-to-adopt naming convention. Patterns: If you’ve used a framework like...
View ArticleWorking at Carpages!
For just over a year now I’ve been working as a front-end developer at Carpages.ca. With the new job came several other life upgrades. Bring on the bullet list! I left my previous job as the Lead...
View ArticleFocus & Pomodoro
I thought I’d share a small change I’m trying with work to hopefully improve my focus, speed, and quality of work. I see interruptions as an important part of my job, but occasionally I’m also...
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Using Franchise Guidelines to build online trust
It’s a slight departure from writing for web journals, but being a team lead for dealer sites at Carpages led to me getting published in the dealer magazine Canadian Auto World. canadianautoworld.ca
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Solving a browser Font issue
I’ve had an issue with fonts messing up in my browser. I thought it was just me! This has happened before, like when a client sent me their weird copy of Helvetica to install and it broke Digg like so...
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Pre Element use-case: brilliant or hacky?
Twice in the past month I have come across issues where the data coming to me from a database contains useful whitespace, but no HTML. I have saved the day by using a <pre> element; this took...
View ArticleTroubleshooting Windows 10 VM
I had an issue where the Virtual Box VM for Windows 10 wouldn’t unzip on my Mac. Advice that worked for me came from Twitter: use “The Unarchiver. Also better to download the PC version (will still...
View ArticleSassTO – A closer look at SMOOCHY!
Tonight at SassTO front-end engineer Matt Rose and I will be talking about the Carpages front-end framework Gemini, and its SMOOCHY methodology (Scalable, Modular, Object Oriented CSS Hybrid, Yo). Here...
View ArticleWordPress.com Desktop Client
Yesterday WordPress announced there is a new WP client. I’m publishing this from it! You can read the announcement here.
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DeGagne Hyundai
Our team recently launched the DeGagne Hyundai website and I wanted to share one of the design features I think looks pretty cool. First, here’s a peek above the fold if you didn’t click the link....
View ArticleWindow Managers
Workflow and simple productivity tools were a couple fascinations of 2015. I still plan to write about it in some detail, but have shared here and there. My Alfred workflow for arranging workspaces is...
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SMOOCHY Methodology Explained
A couple years ago I commented on a post about Using Object Oriented CSS with Sass on The Sass Way, commenting that at Carpages.ca we use a mash-up methodology called SMOOCHY (Scalable, Modular Object...
View ArticleWordCamp Hamilton – Accessibility Talk
This weekend I’m speaking at WordCamp Hamilton on Web Accessibility! Slides are online here: arleym.com/a11y More notes to come!
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Expensive Rendering, or How to make your MacBook fan scream
Recently I made a dangerous wager with a colleague: If he could show up to work on time 10 times in a row I would actually consider getting a motorcycle. 24 hours later my Mac was hot enough to fry...
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