How to Fork a GitHub Repository, clone it, branch it, make edits, and do a Pull Request Hurray! I finally started recording short tutorials on useful web development things. I’m tired of listening to men’s voices in tutorials all the time. It’s time for some women’s voices. I’ll start adding short videos to my playlist […]
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Laura Wheeler Waring
More About Laura Wheeler Waring Born in 1887 in Hartford Connecticut, Laura Wheeler Waring was a teacher and artist. She taught art and music at Cheyney University for more than 30 years. She was a member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. She’s most known for her portraits and many of […]
Sou’Wester Residency 2019
This here is a post about my residency at the Sou’Wester in Seaview Washington in January 2019. I just spend two and a half years busting my ass with VergePDX. I was curating art at the Red Fox, Akemi Salon, Flickerbox, Inc., and both of the Joinery locations in SE and SW Portland, Oregon. It […]
The truth-ishness and nothing but the truth-ishness
Javascript, truth and truthyness is something my students struggle with. So I’ve gathered some resources. Double Equals and Triple Equals Truth, Equality, and Javascript Truthy and Falsy Javascript Equality Table
Web fonts
In my PSU class I’ve got several students who want to use licensed fonts. They are students, so purchasing licenses just isn’t an option. So I’ve found some handy resources for finding close replacements for fonts as well as some handy links for font pairing recommendations. Futura recommended web font replacements The website: What is […]
Panama Live Fruit Feeders Cam
My new favorite thing The Panama Fruit Feeder Cam is located on the grounds of the Canopy Lodge in El Valle de Antón, Panama. This site is just over 2,000 ft above sea level in the low mountains of Cerro Gaital, with a mild springtime climate year-round. A small stream called Rio Guayabo runs past […]
Ledger Art
I was looking for image inspiration and ran across this blog post about 1970’s native american ledger art. Beautiful drawings.
How to reset your git password locally
I recently changed my github password and had trouble figuring out how to reset my password locally. So here’s the answer: git config –global –unset user.password Then just do a git push on any repo with a github remote and you’ll be prompted for your github username and password.
Symlink for Sublime or Atom on a Mac
Did you know there’s an easy way to set up your terminal app to open things in atom or sublime? You just have to create a symlink. I keep needing this for my students so I’m keeping it here so I can find it! For Sublime, In a terminal window type: ln -s /Applications/Sublime\ Text.app/Contents/Shared/Support/bin/subl […]
Bootstrap example sites
AW Awards https://www.awwwards.com/websites/bootstrap/ bootstrap Expo http://expo.getbootstrap.com/ Bootstrap Bay https://bootstrapbay.com/blog/built-with-bootstrap/ Color Lib – Bootstrap portfolios https://colorlib.com/wp/bootstrap-portfolio-website-templates/ Handy Bootstrap pieces and parts on tutorialize https://tutorialzine.com/2015/06/12-time-saving-bootstrap-examples Flex Order in bootstrap https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.0/utilities/flex/
A presentation for Franklin HS
A presentation I made for prospective students at Franklin High School
Big 500 Art Show interviews
Jason Berlin and I, along with loads more artists were interviewed for the 2017 Big 500 Aty Show. Going on until December 24th at Pioneer Place Mall, Second floor. Three shops, thousands of pieces of art, all $40 each.
Crab Mentality
From Wikipedia: Crab Mentality: “Crab mentality, sometimes referred to as crabs in the bucket (also barrel, basket or pot), is a way of thinking best described by the phrase, “if I can’t have it, neither can you.” The metaphor refers to a common pattern of behavior seen in a group of crabs when they are […]
Cloud City Biannual on Kickstarter
Great project! Over 55 artists from the Pacific Northwest. Put together by Jereme Westom who was in my grad program. There are still early bird specials on the book for $15.
Home Treatment for BPPV Vertigo
I have been experiencing vertigo off and on for a year. I have a Dr. Appointment but I always have to ask Dr. Google. This is what Doctor Google told me: This is what BPPV is: “Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) is a disorder arising from a problem in the inner ear.[3] Symptoms are repeated, […]
Sprint Retrospectives
I’m doing some research on how to run productive sprint retrospectives. Mountain Goat Software has a good structure that breaks down into how to encourage good habits: Start: What needs to be added to the team’s habits Stop: What needs to be changed or removeed Continue: What working but needs to continue in order to […]
Gigantic Cognative Bias Chart
Courtesy of: Visual Capitalist
A Good Markdown Cheat Sheet
As we build out our site infrastructure and document our development process in our github wiki, I’ve been learning a lot about Markdown. I’m loving the simplicity of this Markdown cheat sheet by Adam Prichard. It’s a boiled down version of Github’s documentation on writing markdown. It gets straight to the point. Gotta love a […]
Daily Report 09222017
Make your own Table of Contents in Google with Bookmarks
I never remember how to do this so I’m adding the quick steps here. I know there are ways of auto generating a Table of Contents in Google Docs, but I don’t know, I just like making my own. Don’t judge me. Go through your body of text and Select the headers/text you want to […]