@frjonjordan We subscribed to our Sunday paper last year too. Younger kids grab the comics for Peanuts and Garfield and our oldest grabs the sports section (actual articles are a mixed bag for his age). I’ve found it worth to be worth it. Ours still does some solid longer-form journalism.
Very excited to be in Düsseldorf for the 15th Beyond Tellerrand!
Saw A Wrinkle In Time as a family this weekend. The Arden never disappoints! My boys met Calvin afterwards.
Wrapping up a super busy year! Just sent out a newsletter for my freelance business with some project highlights and what’s ahead for 2026.
Ready to see The Lone Bellow tonight. First concert in ages for us! 🎶
Great weekend! Biked 25 miles in the Poconos with my oldest on Saturday and took all 3 to Boo at the Zoo Sunday.
My collection of notes and tabs from Smashing Conf is currently a beautiful mix of deep questions and MDN CSS properties.
Excited to be back in NYC for Smashing Conf! Already re-connecting with old friends and finally checked off MoMA from my museum bucket list yesterday. 🎨
Finally snagged a photo of this new mural in Germantown 🎨
Put together my Framework laptop last week, installed Linux, and did a bunch of coding today. So far, so good!
Oldest had his first robotics competition a few weekends back. Super cool to see what they have been building and experience all the enthusiasm.
Merry Grinchmas!
Half-day at school so we built our first game with the Makey:bit.
Fun week at work! Huge release I contributed a lot to rolled out Monday. Wrote an integration to streamline online ticketing for a big aquarium the rest of the week. Kicking off one of the more ambitious custom WordPress plugins I’ve ever written this afternoon. Long live PHP!
My Saturday view these days. 🏒
Wrapped up another term of teaching at ArtCenter this week. Didn’t have a regular class this fall but hosted two labs to help upcoming grads build their portfolio websites. I always enjoy getting to work with the students right before they enter the industry when they’re in the process of defining themselves and what they want.
Lots of tough things in the news right now but I’m just feeling really down about the impending ‘death spiral’ for SEPTA. Public transit is such an asset to Philly and it’s just going to be diminished right before we host the world in 2026.
Here we go! I have hopes that perhaps Bluesky can revive early 2010s design Twitter.
Having a great trip to NYC for SmashingConf
Hiking to a waterfall in the Poconos
