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Happy Pride 2015
06/28/15
Summary: I've got the joy, joy, joy, joy; down in my heart.
- gay
- pride
Stepping Away From Twitter
06/12/15
Summary: A quick note about taking a break.
- focus
- distraction
Make Breakfast SF
03/31/15
Summary:
- meetups
- side projects
Ugh, Titles
03/20/15
Summary: A quick comment on friction in blogging
- meta
- blogging
BART to SFO
03/19/15
Summary: Just a few notes on getting to the airport efficiently.
- travel
On the kidnapping of 276 girls
05/09/14
Summary: A small attempt to bring hope out of tragedy
- helping
Don't call it a comeback
01/15/14
Summary: Cause it’s not.
- meta
Santa Is A Game People Play
12/02/12
Summary: How we handle Santa Claus, presents, and Christmas in America
- parenting
- culture
Quick Git Tip ... Quickly Merging Changes From Your Local Branch
10/22/12
Summary: For solo development, a quick way to make branches easier to use.
- git
- development
The Mountain Goats at The National, Richmond, VA
10/10/12
Summary: The setlist from a TMG show on 2012-10-09.
- music
- the mountain goats are the best ever
HATCHSHOW.js
10/02/12
Summary: A jQuery typesetting plugin I wrote. It balances measures. Named for the poster shop.
- a thing I made
- jQuery
- front-end stuff
A New Approach to E-mail
(Volunteers Wanted)
09/23/12
Summary: I have a new approach to processing e-mail. It worked for me, and I’m trying to get feedback from others trying it.
- e-mail
- productivity
- inbox zero
CSS-Only Sticky Headers for Tables, Using ‘position: sticky’
09/07/12
Summary: How to use the new 'position; sticky' CSS property with table headers.
- css
- code
- front-end stuff
Fat Fingers (a regex for fixing typoed e-mail addresses)
08/04/12
Summary: A simple tool for reducing bounces in web apps.
- web apps
- user experience
- code
- ruby
Livestreams of WWDC
06/09/12
Summary: Apple news from the 2012 WWDC, in one spot.
- apple
- wwdc
- live
CSS-only Bookmarks
05/23/12
Summary: A super-simple way to make bookmarks using CSS.
- css
- code
- front-end stuff
The Middle Way, and Why Apple Will Reboot the MacBook
04/10/12
Summary: Idle speculation about Apple rebooting the vanilla MacBook line.
- apple
- macbooks
- strategy
Beautiful Buttons for Twitter Bootstrappers
02/01/12
Summary: A neat little sideproject, made to create pretty buttons in any color. A plugin (of sorts) for the Twitter Bootstrap framework.
- a thing I made
- front-end stuff
- Twitter Bootstrap
- jQuery
A Slopegraph Update
12/31/11
Summary: New examples of slopegraphs. Also, we go over Bumps Charts, Ladder Plots, and some new techniques for enhancing slopegraphs.
- data visualization
- graphs
- Edward Tufte
- slopegraphs
Edward Tufte’s “Slopegraphs”
07/11/11
Summary: An overview of Edward Tufte’s “slopegraphs”; their history; good and bad examples; when to use slopegraphs; slopegraph best practices.
- data visualization
- graphs
- Edward Tufte
- slopegraphs
Fear-Driven Development
06/26/11
Summary: What are you most afraid of? That's what you should tackle.
- development
- strategy
Jekyll + Plugins + Github + You
06/15/11
Summary: Deploying a Jekyll-powered site to Github Pages isn't impossible. It just takes a little tweaking.
- jekyll
- code
- github
Benchmarking Date.today and Time.now in Ruby
06/15/11
Summary: Time.now is much faster than Date.today. Whup. Nope. Strike that. Reverse it.
- ruby
- code
The old homepage
06/08/11
Summary: My old landing page.
- pages
- archives
Tags In Jekyll
06/07/11
Summary: A quick overview of adding tags to a Jekyll-powered blog.
- jekyll
- code

You can also read more over at my tumblelog, charliepark.tumblr.com, where I posted a lot of “things I found on the Internet” and occasional original writing, from late 2007 on.

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