You may not have noticed, but I rebuilt my personal site. Mostly by accident, I dove in and converted it to @Astrodotbuild in less than a couple days. paularmstrong.dev/blog/2022/10/1…

My technical design starter template, with instructions. What does yours look like? paularmstrong.dev/blog/2022/10/1…

Is it still cool to make a “humans.txt” file on your site? Asking for a friend…

TIL that I’ve been crimping cat5/6 cables backwards since forever. Not a problem until you put a keystone jack on the other end 🤦🏻‍♂️

Asked for an SVG logo yesterday. I received this abomination: <svg><g><image xlink:href="data:image/png;base64,…"></image></g></svg> /sigh.

Small Tailwind CSS Prose tip: Give linked images hover effects so it’s more obvious that clicking them will do something.

Finally finished up a much longer write-up with lots of technical details and where things went wrong building my own Photo Booth. Sort of a "post mortem tech design" paularmstrong.dev/blog/2022/10/2…

I poured everything into my time at Twitter – and I always felt like Twitter paid it back to me more. Thank you to everyone there: then, now, and sadly no longer. I’m truly sorry for what you’ve gone through. #OneTeam paularmstrong.dev/blog/2022/11/0…

Accessibility is a major piece of any product and must never be an afterthought. Cutting the entire team is just an ableist move. Everyone on this team did amazing work. 💙

The case for Astro – why it’s definitely killer for a personal website, at least. paularmstrong.dev/blog/2022/11/0…