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GCGRAFIX Astro - Colophon

Overview All original, responsive design. Custom drawn and animated SVGs. Previously built on a bespoke Kirby PHP flat-file (No DB) CMS and Bootstrap. Now newly migrated to Astro + Tailwind. !GCGRAFIX Site Colophon Framework & Architecture This site was rebuilt from a custom Kirby CMS (PHP) to Astro...

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On Making A Node/Bower Module

It was always a goal of mine to create and publish (open-source) a JS module that hopefully others may find useful. It became more urgent when I realized I needed the same UI I built for one prototype app across my other projects. With help from this fantastic article, Creating and publishing a node...

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New Front Graphic

A new, front graphic SVG I designed is coming along nicely. I used Sketch, Illustrator (for perspective transforms), and even Affinity Designer (just to work with the app more). I plan to animate things, but I just wanted to get something up and see how it looked. Ahhh, more breathing room. And no m...

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New Reading for 2015

Here are more books I added to my reading list at the end of 2014 and Jan-2015. My favorites out of the bunch are these four: | |...

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CodePens

CodePen is a great way to hack out an idea and instantly see results. No need to setup a dev environment. And one of my favorite features of CodePen in particular is the SCSS-to-CSS preview. I can write in SCSS and if I want to see the CSS compiled version, I just click an icon to toggle. JSBin and...

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Reading

I've enjoyed reading / Reference periodically --- There are about a dozen new books I need to add to this list. Angular, HTML5 Canvas, WebGL... | |...

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Ramping up with JavaScript

Lately I'm immersed in reading JavaScript books and am in-progress developing a Meteor app while going through the Discover Meteor book. It's one of the cleanest, most well-designed development books I've come across in a while. I'll blog more about my experiences soon. Coming from a - mostly back-e...

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