Josh's Brain Blog

As we are the masters of our technology, we should trust our instincts when our technology does something we don't expect or don't understand. If we lack sufficient mastery of the technology to recognize this situation, we should either get it or seek out those who have it. I trust the people who build our smart devices, but I shouldn't forget that I'm the one actually using them.

Does a Homer Simpson reference read in the title of a blog post? I don't think so, but that's what this is. Also, the article is about Sublime Text, which if you're still using by the time you read this blurb, you probably already know everything therein.

I had to recheck to see if Thumbtack was still in existence when I just re-wrote this summary, years later. It is! But I haven't used it since this original post, as the experience was off-putting enough that I haven't had much interest in going back. I should do so.

I've been a soccer player for the vast majority of my life, but my path to being a soccer fan was a slower one. That's something for some other blog, probably. But over at the Caves of Narshe, still my primary online community, there have been over the years a lot of folks who have been soccer fans just like me, and a fair amount of banter around the Beautiful Game, as they say.

Nope, sorry, you have to click through to see this one.

A while back, I had a project in which I had a series of buttons that needed to be styled in a rainbow of candy colors, for a list of items that all lead to different spots in the same content hierarchy. The design mockups I was given for the project were detailed but did not appear to be internally consistent from color to color; the base colors were chosen from a brand guide, but the guide did not provide any detail for how to lighten or darken the colors for user interaction states. I started by developing CSS to match the mockups, but the problem kept gnawing at me.