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Writing to share with you.

• Web Components & Display Contents
  22 Jun 2023 ⁃ webdev css
  The CSS property display: contents; can help layout CSS grids using web components.
• The Lobotomized Owl & Web Component Slots
  05 Jan 2023 ⁃ webdev
  The Lobotomized Owl trick does not work for slotted content in web components. What else can be done?
• 2022 Year In Review
  31 Dec 2022 ⁃ about
  A look back at accomplishments and happenings over the last year.
• SVG Self-Portrait
  14 Dec 2022 ⁃ illustration Adobe Fresco
  Notes on digital self-portrait created with Adobe Fresco.
• The Lonely Place
  28 Nov 2022 ⁃ narrative
  The lonely place is the only place I will ever hear my own voice.
• Joshtimization
  23 Sep 2022 ⁃ webdev
  A few performance updates because I’m weak and can’t help myself.
• Wendell Mohr & Little Bo
  13 Jul 2022 ⁃ artist Wendell Mohr
  How Google Street View and an expired online auction took me back to my childhood home.
• Solving Problems in Design
  09 Jul 2022 ⁃ design
  In June, my student work was featured in a video Roy R. Behrens produced, titled Solving Problems in Design.
• Ray Frederick Sale
  21 Jun 2022 ⁃ art
  I attended a sale of work by the late artist Ray Fredrick and made some connections.
• Not So Fast
  31 May 2022 ⁃ about
  Remembering why I made this website in the first place.
• A Look Back at 2021
  31 Dec 2021 ⁃ about
  A look back at work, running, and changes to this site in 2021.
• The Fastest
  27 Sep 2021 ⁃ webdev eleventy
  Hey! I have the fastest site on The Eleventy Leaderboard for №15 (and №16 and №17)!
• A Running Log - Garmin Connect and Eleventy
  09 Aug 2021 ⁃ running eleventy webdev
  Use Eleventy to log Garmin Connect activities on a website and automate the process with Zapier and Netlify.
• Find Whitespace in VSCode
  14 Apr 2021 ⁃ webdev
  Something I learned about whitespace (and new line character) regex search in VSCode.
• December 27th, 2020
  15 Jan 2021 ⁃ narrative
  I stepped outside into the crisp December morning.
• It’ll all be over by... Christmas
  29 Dec 2020 ⁃ webcomic
  Slow and steady is the race. Onward to 2021.
• Project Proposal Form
  08 Dec 2020 ⁃ design css html
  Rebuild an old design, a print form, in HTML.
• The First Weeks of October
  31 Oct 2020 ⁃ haiku poetry
  Haikus to commemorate extra time outdoors during the first three weeks of October 2020.
• Crain Family Ancestry
  07 Aug 2020 ⁃ ancestry
  How I became involved, the resources I found valuable, and the places I’ve visited in search of a Crain family history.
• The launch of this website
  27 Jul 2020 ⁃ webdev
  The (much delayed) launch of a personal website, joshcrain.io.
• Becoming a front-end master
  16 Mar 2020 ⁃ webdev
  Chris’ readings and exercises to guide me towards front-end mastery.
• Love Bears All Things
  14 Feb 2020 ⁃ illustration
  A year ago for Valentine’s Day I made a couple bears in love. Illustration in CSS and HTML is completely unnecessary—but fun!
• Yamaha SHS-10
  05 Feb 2020 ⁃ illustration
  The Yamaha SHS-10 keytar is rendered in Adobe Illustrator. Created in about 2006.
• Forsaken
  19 Jul 2019 ⁃ photo
  Forsaken places.
• Arizona & Utah
  18 Jul 2019 ⁃ photo
  Paria Movie Site, Montezuma Castle, Grand Canyon and Bryce Canyon.
• 140 miles from the Camp Fire
  18 Jun 2019 ⁃ photo
  The Camp Fire began the day we arrived.
• A Run
  29 May 2019 ⁃ narrative
  That was the night I planned to run six but instead ended up on a gravel road in the middle of a twelve-mile loop...