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This is a gathering of all my thoughts, "digital garden" style. If you haven't heard the term before, check out the this fantastic post on digital gardens by Joel Hooks to learn more about the philosophy behind the phase.

• Pixels vs. Relative Units in CSS: Writing for 24 Accessibility Published: Mon Dec 23 2019

  For the past several years, I have been integrating accessibility as a core feature of software applications. Some of that work has included...

• Well, that was unexpected. Published: Tue Mar 24 2020

  Picture this: You're cranking out features, planning priorities on a design system, preparing for upcoming conference talks, watching the...

• Smoothly Inclusive Component Library Documentation Published: Mon Mar 08 2021

  Button Buttons allow users to perform single-click actions such as adding, deleting, or submitting an event. Editable fancy code Behold...

• Digital Gardening with MDX Magic Published: Mon Aug 24 2020

  I’m not sure about any of y’all, but I have more that one personal site that I’ve created over the years, using the technology of the time...

• Techniques to Keep Your Gatsby Site Blazing Fast Published: Wed Apr 29 2020

  The 10th Challenge in the 100 Days of Gatsby series. This one provided four ways steps to improve your site's performance. Auditing with...

• Improve your Gatby site rank in search engines Published: Sun Apr 19 2020

  100 Days of Gatsby challenge 9. This one involved improving your site's ranking in search engines . When following the Adding an SEO...

• Accessible Forms and Images in Gatsby Published: Sat Apr 18 2020

  Making apps accessible to all users is something I aim for whenever I do any design or engineering, so this particular 100 Days of Gatsby...

• Making your Gatsby site a Progressive Web App Published: Fri Apr 17 2020

  Another short writeup for the 100 Days of Gatsby Challenges . This one involved making your Gatsby site into a Progressive Web App so your

• Using Serverless Functions in Gatsby Published: Thu Apr 16 2020

  This latest 100 Days of Gatsby writeup is going to be very short... The latest challenge prompt guides you through a few paths to try...

• Using MDX in your Gatsby site Published: Wed Apr 15 2020

  Phew! I'm glad to be done with the 100 Days of Gatsby forms challenge. Mostly because... hooray! I'm excited to work with MDX in...

• Adding Formik React Components to Your Gatsby Site Published: Fri Apr 10 2020

  Now that I've had a chance to play with using the gatsby-image plugin to my site for imaging handling, it's time for the next challenge...

• Getting Started with gatsby-image Published: Sun Mar 29 2020

  If you've been following my 100 Days of Gatsby series of blog posts, you may have noticed that I have been completing them in a slower...

• Build and Deploy: testing out the ways to host a Gatsby site Published: Fri Mar 06 2020

  Once the first 100 Days of Gatsby Challenge was behind me, I dove right into the second challenge to learn about deploying a Gatsby site...

• Tackling the 100 Days of Gatsby Published: Wed Jan 01 2020

  New year, new challenge! Last year was a very busy time that included traveling to many interesting places speaking about accessible React...