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Design Technologist at Square. I love the front-end. JavaScript, CSS, UX, accessibility.
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GitHubhttps://github.com/lonekorean
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I Suck at Illustrator

I started playing around a bit with Illustrator CS5. I’ve never done vector graphics before, so this is all new to me. And I kind of suck at it. Behold, my...

Searching for easy piano songs to learn on youtube is the worst.

So many videos tagged "easy" that are just MIDI files plugged into a visualizer that are impossible to play.

I mean actually physically impossible to play by a single human. Like 3 notes each 12+ whole steps apart being played simultaneously.

Am I supposed to use my feet to hit these keys? 🙄

My cat has big "don't care" energy. Threw up on the rug and then just took a nap 2 feet away.

Picking dates to commit to for deadlines still makes me so nervous.

It's hard to guess how long stuff takes to do in dev.

I tend to overestimate (on purpose) because I'd rather be wrong in that direction and then surprise folks with work done early.

But then I feel dumb when they're like "lol it takes you THAT LONG to do this? no wonder your parents got divorced" (they don't really say that, I just think it)

Americans who drive massive vehicles but swerve around every little bump: why?
I bought a piano
I should buy a piano
Go home WordPress, you’re drunk.

Had a tricky responsive layout puzzle at work where I had full control over the CSS but very limited control over the HTML.

Was able to solve it with some old school `float` mojo.

I've heard `float` isn't taught much anymore ("just use flex/grid!") but I still think it's a great tool to have.