2017 Q1–Q2 report
A special double quarterly report. Here are some things I did so far this year, as well as older accomplishments less recent (that I am retiring from the home page).
Done last quarter
- Led several teams of people to design new typography tools. May 2017
- Reorganized & painted bedrooms. May 2017
- Built basement shelves like this. Apr 2017
- Read Zita the Spacegirl books (Legends/Return) with my kids. Mar 2017
- Gave a virtual seminar at UIE’s UX Symposium. Mar 2017
- Got through a bout of Lyme disease. Feb 2017
- Set a variety of projects in motion. Jan 2017
From a while ago
Retiring this stuff from Recently:
- Helped announce variable fonts. Did an interview for Fast Company. Had an idea about specifying CSS instances relative to an “anchor point”. Sep 2016
- Noticed that type sized in pixels or viewport units ignores user font-size preferences. Sep 2016
- Wrote about flexible typography with CSS locks See the responses from Jake Giltsoff and Bram Stein. Aug 2016
- Tried using Anchor.fm to share audio thoughts about fallback fonts, display text, and reading distance. Aug 2016
- Spoke at the Hudson Valley Tech Meetup in Kingston, NY (just a block away from my office). Jul 2016
- Finally hung the glass sign I gilded in John Downer’s 2011 TypeCon workshop. Jul 2016