Heavy.https://thudfactor.com/https://thudfactor.com/lyrics/friday-10-snow-day/https://thudfactor.com/lyrics/friday-10-snow-day/…and take the snow back with you where it came from on that dayFri, 12 Dec 2025 07:57:48 GMThttps://thudfactor.com/lyrics/friday-10-cold/https://thudfactor.com/lyrics/friday-10-cold/Our only goal will be the western shore.Fri, 05 Dec 2025 11:05:25 GMThttps://thudfactor.com/posts/art-sources/https://thudfactor.com/posts/art-sources/Good places to find free(ish) artwork for blog posts.Tue, 02 Dec 2025 12:13:28 GMThttps://thudfactor.com/posts/ghost-and-back/https://thudfactor.com/posts/ghost-and-back/After years of running static sites, I had a brief flirtation with a hosted service.Mon, 01 Dec 2025 10:27:59 GMThttps://thudfactor.com/lyrics/black-friday-10/https://thudfactor.com/lyrics/black-friday-10/I need a Veg-O-Matic! I need a Garden Weasel!Fri, 28 Nov 2025 23:54:09 GMThttps://thudfactor.com/lyrics/friday-10-what-if-the-cure-is-worse-than-the-disease/https://thudfactor.com/lyrics/friday-10-what-if-the-cure-is-worse-than-the-disease/Serve me up some pretty, pretty peopleFri, 14 Nov 2025 12:24:06 GMThttps://thudfactor.com/lyrics/friday-10-aneruok-ruokane/https://thudfactor.com/lyrics/friday-10-aneruok-ruokane/You were struck down; it was your doomFri, 07 Nov 2025 12:40:15 GMThttps://thudfactor.com/lyrics/friday-10-8/https://thudfactor.com/lyrics/friday-10-8/Say something once, why say it again?Fri, 31 Oct 2025 16:49:10 GMThttps://thudfactor.com/posts/working-with-ai/https://thudfactor.com/posts/working-with-ai/What happens when you ask AI to slow you down instead of speed you up.Mon, 27 Oct 2025 20:25:05 GMThttps://thudfactor.com/lyrics/friday-10-the-ing-words/https://thudfactor.com/lyrics/friday-10-the-ing-words/Some of these they play over and over and over on the radio…Fri, 24 Oct 2025 10:57:48 GMThttps://thudfactor.com/lyrics/friday-10-3/https://thudfactor.com/lyrics/friday-10-3/You know you‘re not in high finance considering second-hand underpants.Fri, 17 Oct 2025 11:09:16 GMThttps://thudfactor.com/posts/how-to-pronounce-gif/https://thudfactor.com/posts/how-to-pronounce-gif/Possible spoiler: I don’t have an easy answer for you.Tue, 14 Oct 2025 14:01:30 GMThttps://thudfactor.com/posts/doctor-who-and-the-highest-stakes/https://thudfactor.com/posts/doctor-who-and-the-highest-stakes/Doctor Who has come a long way in sixty years of storytelling. Perhaps it has come too far.Mon, 13 Oct 2025 11:52:12 GMThttps://thudfactor.com/lyrics/friday-10-everything-is-temporary-anyway/https://thudfactor.com/lyrics/friday-10-everything-is-temporary-anyway/When the streets are wet, the colors slip into the sky.Fri, 10 Oct 2025 11:20:22 GMThttps://thudfactor.com/posts/the-unceasing-drama-of-social-media/https://thudfactor.com/posts/the-unceasing-drama-of-social-media/“Censorship” is just unwanted curation.Tue, 07 Oct 2025 22:43:15 GMThttps://thudfactor.com/posts/full-circle/https://thudfactor.com/posts/full-circle/Wanting more interactivity on my blog, even at a minimal level, has made static site generators more trouble than I want to deal with.Sat, 04 Oct 2025 16:11:39 GMThttps://thudfactor.com/lyrics/friday-10-7/https://thudfactor.com/lyrics/friday-10-7/The morning after blues, from my head down to my shoesFri, 03 Oct 2025 11:11:18 GMThttps://thudfactor.com/posts/ai-coding-2/https://thudfactor.com/posts/ai-coding-2/A lot of folks are asking if AI makes developers more efficient, but we'd have to know how to measure efficiency first.Thu, 02 Oct 2025 10:54:45 GMThttps://thudfactor.com/lyrics/friday-10-6/https://thudfactor.com/lyrics/friday-10-6/I was born to be a fiddler in an old-time string bandFri, 26 Sep 2025 10:46:19 GMThttps://thudfactor.com/lyrics/friday-10-5/https://thudfactor.com/lyrics/friday-10-5/Sunday’s on the phone to Monday, Tuesday’s on the phone to me.Fri, 19 Sep 2025 10:58:04 GMThttps://thudfactor.com/posts/ai-coding-1/https://thudfactor.com/posts/ai-coding-1/Giving the AI coding thing "the old college try," not that I tried that much in college.Tue, 16 Sep 2025 11:51:08 GMThttps://thudfactor.com/lyrics/friday-10-4/https://thudfactor.com/lyrics/friday-10-4/All of the greenery is coming down, boyFri, 12 Sep 2025 10:42:07 GMThttps://thudfactor.com/posts/blog-community/https://thudfactor.com/posts/blog-community/Some thoughts after the first few weeks of my lyric guessing game.Thu, 11 Sep 2025 11:20:34 GMThttps://thudfactor.com/lyrics/friday-10-9/https://thudfactor.com/lyrics/friday-10-9/Nothing ever changes when you're acting your age.Fri, 05 Sep 2025 10:42:07 GMThttps://thudfactor.com/posts/purity-tests/https://thudfactor.com/posts/purity-tests/When people argue about "purity tests" in politics, it’s to dodge accepting uncomfortable compromises.Thu, 04 Sep 2025 10:44:21 GMThttps://thudfactor.com/posts/parents-children/https://thudfactor.com/posts/parents-children/The principle that reshaped how I wrote CSS.Wed, 03 Sep 2025 11:31:20 GMThttps://thudfactor.com/lyrics/friday-10-2/https://thudfactor.com/lyrics/friday-10-2/Another 10 lyrics for you to identify!Fri, 29 Aug 2025 10:20:25 GMThttps://thudfactor.com/posts/javascriptless-development/https://thudfactor.com/posts/javascriptless-development/Bejofo reworks their JavaScript game to run without JavaScript, which is an interesting experiment — and reinforces my biggest concern about modern web development hosting infrastructure.Tue, 26 Aug 2025 11:16:26 GMThttps://thudfactor.com/posts/chatbot-outsourcing/https://thudfactor.com/posts/chatbot-outsourcing/What happens when a business starts outsourcing the busy-work? Is that even useful? Or is it just another cash drain?Mon, 25 Aug 2025 12:03:49 GMThttps://thudfactor.com/posts/post-images/https://thudfactor.com/posts/post-images/I’m always having a debate with myself about how to handle images for blog posts — and whether they need images at all.Sun, 24 Aug 2025 12:32:25 GMThttps://thudfactor.com/lyrics/friday-10/https://thudfactor.com/lyrics/friday-10/I give you the lyrics, you tell me the artist and song.Fri, 22 Aug 2025 10:56:16 GMThttps://thudfactor.com/posts/vercel-changes/https://thudfactor.com/posts/vercel-changes/I've gone and done it. I took my nice, static site and turned it dynamic. Wow, what a headache.Wed, 20 Aug 2025 10:53:28 GMThttps://thudfactor.com/posts/ai-checkin/https://thudfactor.com/posts/ai-checkin/Words matter, but sometimes more to rhetorical approaches than to any real understanding.Thu, 14 Aug 2025 11:19:57 GMThttps://thudfactor.com/posts/25-expanding-work/https://thudfactor.com/posts/25-expanding-work/Ever heard that “work expands to fill the time available”? Let's dig into why that’s only half the story — and what Parkinson’s Law gets wrong about how real work (and real people) actually operate.Fri, 25 Jul 2025 10:40:07 GMThttps://thudfactor.com/posts/23-on-zombies/https://thudfactor.com/posts/23-on-zombies/Writing a game in Javascript, HTML, and CSS as "vanilla" as I can manage.Wed, 23 Jul 2025 10:54:04 GMThttps://thudfactor.com/posts/16-taking-notes/https://thudfactor.com/posts/16-taking-notes/Writing notes by hand and rephrasing them in my own words is more valuable to me than relying on AI tools.Wed, 16 Jul 2025 10:54:04 GMThttps://thudfactor.com/posts/09-links/https://thudfactor.com/posts/09-links/This week's links lean more towards the technical / business side of things.Wed, 09 Jul 2025 10:54:04 GMThttps://thudfactor.com/posts/07-fancy-headings/https://thudfactor.com/posts/07-fancy-headings/How to mark up elaborate headline structuresMon, 07 Jul 2025 17:38:40 GMThttps://thudfactor.com/posts/02-links/https://thudfactor.com/posts/02-links/In this first link roundup, I share posts about metrics, AI psychology, and accessibility that caught my attention this last week.Wed, 02 Jul 2025 10:59:39 GMThttps://thudfactor.com/posts/i-like-javascript/https://thudfactor.com/posts/i-like-javascript/Regardless of what you think about it, JavaScript is a crucial part of the platform.Thu, 12 Jun 2025 10:59:39 GMThttps://thudfactor.com/posts/why-scrum-fails/https://thudfactor.com/posts/why-scrum-fails/Scrum seems like it works. I've seen it work; it's working for me now. Why do so many people think it's a failure?Wed, 30 Apr 2025 10:19:30 GMThttps://thudfactor.com/posts/fairy-tale/https://thudfactor.com/posts/fairy-tale/A story that illustrates what we were all told about capitalism, and most of us still feel to be true. Even if we know better.Wed, 12 Mar 2025 13:19:30 GMThttps://thudfactor.com/posts/02-ai-checkin/https://thudfactor.com/posts/02-ai-checkin/A check-in on the AI front, both technically and culturallySun, 02 Mar 2025 13:34:07 GMThttps://thudfactor.com/posts/the-last-kindle/https://thudfactor.com/posts/the-last-kindle/Confessions of a data-hoarder in the midst of late capitalism.Thu, 27 Feb 2025 12:24:28 GMThttps://thudfactor.com/posts/catch-up/https://thudfactor.com/posts/catch-up/Where my head is at after a three-month hiatusSat, 08 Feb 2025 15:23:23 GMThttps://thudfactor.com/posts/colocation/https://thudfactor.com/posts/colocation/Does “face to face” communication require our bodies to be in the same space, too?Mon, 07 Oct 2024 11:56:25 GMThttps://thudfactor.com/posts/domain-shift/https://thudfactor.com/posts/domain-shift/Sometimes developers will solve problems with the handy tool, not the right tool, just because it seems like less work. It's probably not.Tue, 02 Jul 2024 11:32:09 GMThttps://thudfactor.com/posts/browser-testing/https://thudfactor.com/posts/browser-testing/Update-by-default has pushed the platform forward, but has also put browser testing out of reach for manyWed, 26 Jun 2024 09:51:34 GMThttps://thudfactor.com/posts/new-hotness/https://thudfactor.com/posts/new-hotness/There’s so much great new stuff in CSS, some of it with extraordinary support. Why aren’t people leaping on it?Wed, 19 Jun 2024 09:51:34 GMThttps://thudfactor.com/posts/vim-1/https://thudfactor.com/posts/vim-1/Some thoughts on the first view days using neovimWed, 29 May 2024 11:13:33 GMThttps://thudfactor.com/posts/vim-2/https://thudfactor.com/posts/vim-2/The continuing story of migrating my brain from VSCode to vimWed, 29 May 2024 11:13:33 GMThttps://thudfactor.com/posts/editor/https://thudfactor.com/posts/editor/Some thoughts about changing up my typical toolsetSat, 25 May 2024 11:05:25 GMThttps://thudfactor.com/posts/tooltips/https://thudfactor.com/posts/tooltips/The differences (and similarities) of the new Popover API and the Dialog element.Wed, 15 May 2024 10:08:52 GMThttps://thudfactor.com/posts/about-rules/https://thudfactor.com/posts/about-rules/My first one is “never call them rules.”Tue, 07 May 2024 12:02:38 GMThttps://thudfactor.com/posts/css-programming/https://thudfactor.com/posts/css-programming/And why does it seem to matter to so many people?Sat, 27 Apr 2024 21:02:38 GMThttps://thudfactor.com/posts/looms/https://thudfactor.com/posts/looms/We seem to be very selective about whose jobs deserve to be automated.Fri, 19 Apr 2024 12:02:38 GMThttps://thudfactor.com/posts/extra-capacity/https://thudfactor.com/posts/extra-capacity/Businesses that don’t strive for perfect efficiency are more creative and have happier employees.Wed, 03 Apr 2024 12:02:38 GMThttps://thudfactor.com/posts/font-stack/https://thudfactor.com/posts/font-stack/Goodbye Google Fonts, hello (again) system fontsMon, 25 Mar 2024 12:02:38 GMThttps://thudfactor.com/posts/pixels/https://thudfactor.com/posts/pixels/The conventional wisdom is that you should not use pixel units, but maybe sometimes you should?Thu, 14 Mar 2024 23:02:38 GMThttps://thudfactor.com/posts/redesign/https://thudfactor.com/posts/redesign/An explanation and apology of sorts for things looking like 1992 around here.Wed, 28 Feb 2024 11:56:45 GMThttps://thudfactor.com/posts/punctuation/https://thudfactor.com/posts/punctuation/How to give your UI a more polished look just by using the correct punctuation.Thu, 15 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://thudfactor.com/posts/blog-more/https://thudfactor.com/posts/blog-more/Search Engines have been overwhelmed by SEO spam, but is the struggling open web part of the problem?Sat, 27 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://thudfactor.com/posts/syntax-colors/https://thudfactor.com/posts/syntax-colors/Template literals are great for assembling bits of CSS and HTML in Javascript, but what about the syntax coloring?Wed, 17 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://thudfactor.com/posts/oatmeal/https://thudfactor.com/posts/oatmeal/The easiest way I know to make oatmeal that doesn’t come in an envelope.Tue, 09 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://thudfactor.com/posts/prefers-reduced-motion/https://thudfactor.com/posts/prefers-reduced-motion/Supporting your site visitors who have motion sensitivities.Thu, 14 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://thudfactor.com/posts/exploring-hsl/https://thudfactor.com/posts/exploring-hsl/We continue exploring color in CSS by taking a close look at HSL.Mon, 11 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://thudfactor.com/posts/exploring-rgb/https://thudfactor.com/posts/exploring-rgb/We begin exploring color in CSS by taking a close look at RGB color.Sat, 09 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://thudfactor.com/posts/goodbye-postcss/https://thudfactor.com/posts/goodbye-postcss/Removing any form of CSS post-processing has me nostalgic for the other web development strategies that have become obsolete thanks to modern development strategies.Tue, 07 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://thudfactor.com/posts/ai-code/https://thudfactor.com/posts/ai-code/I spent a couple of weeks diving into coding _with_ AI, and there are a lot of challenges. The most concerning, however, have very little to do with the technology.Wed, 09 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://thudfactor.com/posts/ai-art/https://thudfactor.com/posts/ai-art/AI art is often described as just “writing a prompt,” but of course it’s more difficult than that.Tue, 01 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://thudfactor.com/posts/resize/https://thudfactor.com/posts/resize/CSS offers a browser-native way to make elements resizable, but it comes with a lot of limitations.Tue, 04 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://thudfactor.com/posts/copilot/https://thudfactor.com/posts/copilot/Some thoughts on GitHub Copilot, the AI-powered code assistant.Tue, 20 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://thudfactor.com/posts/article-typography/https://thudfactor.com/posts/article-typography/Three CSS typography properties to improve your site’s readabilitySat, 17 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://thudfactor.com/posts/image-of-a-cat/https://thudfactor.com/posts/image-of-a-cat/John discusses the history of HTML’s image tag.Mon, 05 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://thudfactor.com/posts/this-is-an-alpha/https://thudfactor.com/posts/this-is-an-alpha/The Thudfactor First PostSun, 04 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://thudfactor.com/posts/humanities/https://thudfactor.com/posts/humanities/At its heart, “Agile” is just the technology industry learning how to work like artists.Sat, 11 May 2019 22:56:35 GMT