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Townscaper is really cool. I saw it during one of the E3 streams this past week and discovered it’s already available!

Really interesting to get some insight into how a site this large manages a major refresh. The sites I work on are dwarfed in comparison to how much content they need to manage and provide access to, but it does cause me to re-examine them a bit. I do like…

This is an idea inspired by Expressive Design Systems, with some additional help from A Strategy Guide to CSS Custom Properties and Theming With Variables: Globals and Locals. The design system I work with is largely used for more content-heavy marketing sites, which provides some interesting challenges that…

Recently I watched a talk given by Chris Butcher at GDC2015 called Learning From the Core Engine Architecture of Destiny (Slides). In it he makes the same comparison of architects and gardeners and makes the argument that in the realm of systems as complex as modern game…

As basic as the current Overwatch Archives event is, I’m looking forward to Overwatch 2 more than ever after playing it again this year. Whether it’s playing on normal to get more comfortable on heroes I rarely play or figuring out a good team comp to consistently make it through expert, I’ve been playing a lot more this past week or so. The talent trees, new maps, and missions they’re working on makes me think the sequel will be the game I have been looking for with that mix of unique heroes, good variety of content, and polished gameplay.

Skyscale complete!

Today I’m starting the journey to unlock the Skyscale

I have always thought Destiny has the best gameplay/feel of any FPS I have played so far. I have seen this viewpoint shared at various times across the internet, but recently I was doing a search for games that have a similar feel to Destiny and stumbled across this…

Recently I was working on building a pair of tabs and tab blocks for a project and needed a way to get a unique ID for each tab that is created. I had previously used withInstanceId but while I was checking the reference for this function I came across…

From BEM to ITCSS to Tailwind I’ve seen varying methods of organizing CSS, but this is a pretty interesting read that takes some ideas from them all. I like Andy’s approach of giving some backstory about how he arrived at this and how it’s not necessarily a one-size-fits-all.