A couple weeks back, I stumbled upon this video from Dia, the people behind Arc Browser (rip). In the video Chris Paik quickly shows a skill he created based on an article by Graham Duncan called "What's going on here, with this human?". I found it pretty interesting and thought it would be a nice way to test creating my first Claude Skill.

Last week I wrote about how the design team I lead at Discourse used design driven development to create our newest theme, Horizon.

Horizon is a simple, beautiful theme designed to provide a great user experience for communities without extra effort on the admin’s part.

This year, I'd like to make more time for reading, as it is something that both inspires & relaxes me. It ignights the inner workings of my mind like none of the previously listed activities do. When I read, I feel better mentally.

This is a document of what materials and courses I used to learn to code at my own pace. I went through these courses throughout 2019. I'll list them out in the order that I went through them in case you'd like to do the same. It was a steady progression of difficulty and I learned a lot. I landed a role at Discourse in early 2020 as a designer, primarily working in stylesheets and handlebars files. As time went on, I found myself working more and more in the front-end as well using the EmberJS framework. All of the learning I did has definitely contributed and helped me in my roles at Discourse. It has not been without pretty difficult moments, but these initial courses I learned from helped solidify a lot of javascript and working with the DOM for me.