Shoutouts

This website is powered by Jekyll, hosted with Github Pages, and distributed by Cloudflare.

Implementation

I am genuinely grateful for all the open source projects I used and advice I received from the community while building this website, including:

• Andreas Larsen, whose elegant “eased” gradients generator was heavily used for many of the gradients throughout this site.
• BigFoot for their Instapaper-like footer popups used to power my article footnotes.
• Criag Hockenberry for trailblazing a backwards compatible font-family declaration which leverages the system’s default typeface whenever possible, and which is used “as is” on this site.
• Gapless 5 for powering the SMiLE: Heroes & Villains page’s jukebox.
• Hint for the lovely hover bubbles used throughout the site (like the Projects and Social pages).
• jQuery powers lots of functionality on this site. Stuff what anyone else says: it was awesome, and quite frankly still is awesome.
• jQueryScript.net whose anchor links script is leveraged to display header anchor links on hover.
• Michael J. Deeb for his help getting a custom domain set up with Github Pages and Hover.
• Paul Lewis & Robert Flack, authors of Google’s Performant Parallaxing developer article which was heavily referenced for my Largest Video Game Ever & SMiLE: Heroes & Villains pages.
• Richard Leland on Github for his Pygments Monokai color scheme, which I use for my syntax highlighting.
• shanidkv for publishing an indispensable guide detailing how to implement a dynamically fixed menu (i.e. a menu that suddenly “floats” when scrolling).
• Typescale for providing a brilliant little web app for the community to quickly and easily generate pleasing typography scales like the one used throughout this site.

Inspiration

I drew inspiration for my website’s design from many professionals, including:

• Bradley Taunt, a web designer & developer hybrid like myself whose original home page was the source of inspiration for my own.
• Cezary Wojcik, a self-proclaimed keyboard wizard and iOS Developer whose projects gallery page was the initial inspiration for my own.
• Christa Mrgan, whose work on SixColors and tasteful eye for design helped guide my own design process throughout this site.
• Matt Birchler, whose soft menu bar logo animation served the primary inspiration for my own, finally bringing the rainbow present on my site’s bitmap logo images for years into the site itself.
• Silvia Gatta, the designer behind MacStories and the primary driver motivating me to support dark mode, as well.
• Susan Kare, the legendary graphic designer for the original Macintosh operating system, from whose work my “Happy iMac” website logo pays homage.

Above all else I thank my Mom and Dad, my older sister Aimée, my younger brother Michael, and my loving husband Khary for their continued support as I pursue my dreams. I love you all, thanks for everything.