tylersticka

tylersticka, 4 months ago to random

I decided to change my default browser over the weekend. Researching my options felt strange. https://tylersticka.com/journal/browsers-are-weird-right-now/

tylersticka, 9 months ago to random

Is it expected behavior that hiding horizontal overflow on the html and body elements disrupts scroll-driven animations for the block axis? 🤔️

For an example, use dev tools to add html, body { overflow-x: hidden } to this demo in Chrome or Edge: https://scroll-driven-animations.style/demos/image-reveal/css/

tylersticka, 2 months ago to random

I’m tired of shipping drifting joy-cons to Nintendo for repair. Anyone have experience with mods to fix more permanently? What did you use and how did it go?

tylersticka, 7 months ago to random

I’ve been a full-time web designer since 2007.

In that time, I’ve worked with a bunch of different orgs shipping a bunch of different projects to millions of users, published hundreds of articles, presented at a dozen or so conferences, taught college classes and won some awards.

I have been a guest on one podcast.

I’ve been invited on podcasts five other times. Twice, the company that funded the podcast went under before our scheduled recording. Three times I’ve simply been ghosted.

tylersticka, 2 months ago to random

Today is my 11th work anniversary at @cloudfour 🎂

I’ve spent most of that time providing creative direction and design for our customers, shipping better web experiences together. 💪

But I’ve also found time to write and publish 77 articles. There’s a list in my bio: https://cloudfour.com/is/tyler/ ✍

I’d love to know if you have a favorite. 🎣❤️

tylersticka, 8 months ago to random

Anyone have advice for getting Messages on a new iPhone to download synced messages without restoring from the old device?

The old phone’s messages are synced to iCloud (I can see them taking up storage), both phones have the exact same settings, but the new phone only shows messages received since setting it up.

tylersticka, 10 months ago to random

IMAX movies like Oppenheimer that use 70mm film still require a Palm Pilot, and instead of rewriting the software they just made an emulator.

I don’t know why, but I love this. https://www.theverge.com/23801118/imax-movie-palm-pilot-oppenheimer

tylersticka, 5 months ago to random

I had another discussion recently about why I try to avoid overusing footnotes, so it seemed a good time to finally wrap up this draft… 🫣 https://tylersticka.com/journal/footnote-trouble/

tylersticka, 3 months ago to random

I read legendary game designer John Romero’s autobiography and now I can’t stop using the phrase “possibility bridge” https://cloudfour.com/thinks/the-possibility-bridge/

tylersticka, 7 months ago to webdev

Acronyms like MPA (multi-page app) and SSR (server-side rendering) may seem silly to seasoned web designers and developers. I know my first thought was, “Isn’t that how the web works by default?”

But speaking as an agency owner, these buzzwords can be really helpful. If an organization has been all-in on SPAs for the past five years (and many have been), it’s a smaller leap to pitch them an MPA than “what you were doing five years ago.”

#WebDesign #WebDev

tylersticka, 1 month ago to random

#FediHire friends, I could use your help! 👋

My brother, Tim, is an amazing project manager! His team was laid off (without severance 😞) days before Thanksgiving weekend due to biz dev pipelines (not performance-related).

He’s been applying and interviewing in the months since, gets exclusively positive feedback… but every opportunity seems to evaporate. 😕

He just launched a personal website (#BuiltWithEleventy). Please share it with whoever might be interested: https://timsticka.com/

tylersticka, 9 months ago to webdev

Hey you! Do you like buttons? How about squash-and-stretch animation?

Then do I have the tutorial for you!

https://cloudfour.com/thinks/rubber-button/

#WebDev #WebDesign #HTML #CSS #SVG #Animation

A button with placeholder text (“Hello world”) appears rectangular at first. A mouse cursor hovers over, causing it to visibly “inflate” toward the viewer. The mouse cursor clicks down on the button, causing it to visibly stretch inward as if pressed by the cursor.

tylersticka, 6 months ago to Typography

Hey #typography friends, any recommendations for a Freight Sans alternative I could self-host for a reasonable price, ideally from an independent foundry? I want a modern, humanist sans with a similar cartoonish bounce to the bolder weights, but I’d like to cut the Adobe Fonts cord for my personal site.

tylersticka, 8 months ago to random

It is an unwritten rule of social media that anyone in your timeline complaining about the size of their audience will have at least twice as many followers as you.

tylersticka, 2 months ago to random

I was tired of typing the same three #git commands over and over, so I stumbled into making my first alias 💪⌨ https://tylersticka.com/journal/git-fresh/

tylersticka, 8 months ago to random

This classic Peanuts strip always gets me 😆 https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts-begins/2023/10/07

tylersticka, 7 months ago to random

I think Charlie Brown’s onto something… 🤔

https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts-begins/2023/10/27

tylersticka, 10 months ago to random

In our morning design meeting, my colleague @gerardorodriguez suggested a sketching exercise based on negative space. Here’s what I came up with. #MastoArt

tylersticka, 4 months ago to random

Achievement Unlocked 🏆

Lost half a podcast recording to a software bug 🫠

tylersticka, 9 months ago to webdev

Just deployed a long overdue refactor of my static site. Thanks mainly to @eleventy, it now requires 82% less configuration than before! 🎉 https://tylersticka.com/journal/refactoring-my-static-site-in-2023/

#WebDev #Eleventy

tylersticka, 10 months ago to random

I made my personal site static in 2016. Eleventy and Astro didn’t exist, I didn’t like Jekyll or Hugo, and Metalsmith was too slow. So I built my own Frankenstein’s monster of a bespoke build process. I was really happy with that for a year or two.

But now it’s 2023, all its dependencies are out of date and won’t update, it makes Node barf past v9, and it wants to polyfill everything like it’s still the 2010s.

I know I need to tear it down so I can simplify but ugggghhh…

tylersticka, 5 months ago to 11ty

It’s been about four months since I refactored my personal website using @eleventy. Here’s how it’s going so far… https://tylersticka.com/journal/refactor-follow-up-2023/

#Eleventy #WebDesign #WebDev #PersonalSites #Blog

tylersticka, 4 months ago to animals

Our small furry son is two years old today 😭

#DogsOfMastodon

tylersticka, 4 months ago to random

@hexagoncircle I was sharing a recent article of yours with my team and I just wanted to say how well-designed your site is, particularly the article pages. I adore the skewed headlines, the iconography (that progress indicator with the stop watch is brilliant) and the playfulness of your quotes and asides.

Have a great day! 🤘

tylersticka, 1 month ago to random

I didn’t know I needed to see this 30-year-old live performance of “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” by PJ Harvey and Björk, but wow 😮 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dg39hJIhzAk