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2025
A look back at 2025.
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Styling a meter element with CSS and SVG
How to make a fancy rating component.
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2024
A look back at 2024.
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Halloween
Reflections on my most/least favorite day.
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Eldridge
Mourning the loss of my best friend.
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Theming Design Systems
A look at Pit Viper's theme system.
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2023
A look back at 2023.
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Using Wordpress as a headless CMS for Eleventy
How I avoided having to re-learn PHP and love Eleventy.
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10 years of Extra Life
Keeping Olivia's memory alive through charity.
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Why we're bad at CSS
And how we can improve with a practical example.
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Our Dear Geno
Heartbroken.
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Fun with Retro Handhelds
An incomplete guide to playing your favorite childhood games on the go.
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Design System Diary (Part 1)
Chronicling the start of a new design system.
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Imagine
When the life of a basketball fan transcends sports.
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2022
A look back at 2022.
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Design System Advice
5 tips for working on design systems.
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Reframing Design Systems
Thoughts on removing product decisions from your system.
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Nested navigation in Eleventy
Building a no-JS navigation menu with the details element.
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Owen
Reflections on being a new dad, again.
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Refactoring MikeAparicio.com
Escaping a hoarder house of technical debt.
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Tips for beating Sifu
Lessons learned while earning Sifu's platinum trophy.
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2021
A look back at 2021.
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Games as a Service are Ruining Gaming
I'm exhausted by the daily grind of video game chores.
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My Movie a Year Challenge
I watched one movie from each year since 1975.
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It's Your Website
No one cares about your stack.
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Adding Algolia search to an Eleventy site with Netlify
After months of struggles I finally found a relatively easy solution.
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Variants
Thoughts on traveling the sacred timeline.
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Extreme Makeover Homepage Edition
I am the Ty Pennington of Lighthouse scores.
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Cool CSS
Turning my CSS methodology into the last framework I'll (hopefully) ever have to build.
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2020
Well, that sucked.
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Why I Love Modern Warfare (Again)
Once more into the fray.
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Extra Life 2020
Our seventh year of helping sick children.
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Goodbye, Groupon
Leaving the longest job I've ever held.
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Simple Groupon
Demonstrating the power of design tokens for a hackathon.
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Why I Love Animal Crossing
A small comfort amidst a pandemic.
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Quarantine Diary 1
Notes from a pandemic.
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My Year of Film
My attempt to watch one film per day in 2020.
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2019
A look back at 2019.
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Extra Life 2019
Leveling up fundraising in year six!
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Why I Love Dark
The best show on Netflix you (probably) haven't seen.
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Don't Let Your Engineering Team Bleed Out
Thoughts on being a CSS medic.
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What's Next?
Am I having a mid-life crisis?
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Why I Love Slay the Spire
My latest video game obsession is killing my productivity.
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Why I Hate Battle Royales
The latest trend in video games is not for me.
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Ryan
Reflections on being a new dad.
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500 Episodes
My favorite podcast celebrates 10+ years.
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2018
A look back at the longest year in history.
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Should Painters Sculpt?
In which I ponder that age old question.
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Driving Your Design System with Tokens
Design tokens are the key to a maintainable, cross-platform design system.
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Four Years
It's been awhile.
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Extra Life for Lurie Children's Hospital
I'm playing video games for 24 hours to honor my daughter, Olivia.
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CSS at Groupon
A look at our CSS frameworks at Groupon.
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Building a Dream Team
My beef with the term "full-stack developer."