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the blind side of seniority
I was raised by a father who loved underdogs. Kelly's Heroes and the stories of the Black Sheep squadron , were some of his favorites to watch and tell. These were stories of outcasts, thrown… [more]
What Do Future Engineers Look Like?
This article was originally published on the Voze Engineering Blog and is republished here for posterity. What do you look for in an engineer when that engineer is not the one writing most of the… [more]
lab
…You can change the size with a size queryparam. https://designfrontier.net/maze?size=75 is the perfect size to print a letter size page of paper for instance. qr codes a simple tool for recording the… [more]
Spotify Archivist
So for the last 10 years I've been adding songs to my Spotify liked songs. It's great but every once in a while a song comes on and I think... "do I really still like this song?" I… [more]
Team! A Module For Teams!
Recently I found myself with some time on my hands... so I wrote a simple module for managing engineering team member information in automation projects. Basically I was working on some automation… [more]
The Hunt Begins
…twitter or linkedin . You can also email me at daniel[at]designfrontier.net Let's talk! Other things If you are curious about how I think about engineering, organizations, and more here are some… [more]
Last Lectures
Way back in my year end review for 2021 I wrote, As part of that effort I’ve worked to build a culture in engineering where people coming and going is normal. We’ve started doing “Last Lectures” for… [more]
Lessons Learned From a Film Producer About Making Software
This last week, I had my leadership team in town for the first time in a while for some planning meetings, and some team building. I am always looking to learn from different disciplines, so I thought… [more]
2021: Year in Review
It has been quite the year! As the pandemic has been dragging on, ramping up, slowing down, generally continuing to drag on. Thoughts I am excited for 2022. 2022! How did that happen? This year has… [more]
Neptune (Gremlin) Local Dev Setup
I am playing with some graph databases right now, for a fun project I may write about later. When I first started out I was using Neo4j, which has an excellent local development story, a lovely web… [more]
design and the internet as ephemera
…drawn from this as well. Things like having the root of designfrontier.net redirect to the current article’s permenant address. Having swipe gestures for linear navigation through the "timeline"… [more]
Office Hours
…How do I sign up? This is the easy part! See where it says designfrontier up there? Click on that. There will be a link there to office hours . [more]
Jumping on the AMA bandwagon
…above. "Wait?!" you say, "What navigation?" Click on the designfrontier up there. It expands into navigation. Yes I know that isn’t very discoverable. That is on purpose. I really should write… [more]
Let's talk about Boot camps
So the giant article I’ve been planning to write from what I learned prepping for that talk I gave on being senior a while ago has stalled. So instead I am going to write about small chunks of it.… [more]
Death to Jquery
Yesterday I presented ’Death to jQuery’ at Pandamonium, our internal Tech Conference at Instructure, because honestly it’s time. jQuery was critical to the development of the web, it… [more]
CSS Only Partial Width Borders
A design that I was recently implementing required a partial width underline for some headings and a partial height border as a divider between two elements. But I didn’t want to add any extra… [more]
Io: the language, not the moon
This is the first in the Seven Languages series of posts and covers the Io language , a small prototypal language. Let’s get this out of the way right now. I love Io . It’s amazing. The… [more]
2015: in review
…End Engineer for Instructure. During that time I re-wrote designfrontier on a new engine, using ansble for it’s data store and gave it an isomorphic facelift on monument . I also wrote ansble… [more]
Don't Call Me. I'll Call You. Single Request Responsive Images
We’ve been talking about responsive design around the office a lot lately. It’s kind of a big deal these days. The holy grail seems to be responsive images, or a system that allows you to… [more]
Current Projects Update
…lying around that aren't mentioned anywhere here on designfrontier. So to remedy that I decided to put together this quick article. RandPop : a responsive website for creating random numbers in a… [more]
Relaunch of DesignFrontier
So here it is! After having worked for many hours, it's official. The redesign process has been exciting. Creating new features in new ways has been a blast. Is it done? Far from it. I am still… [more]