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Puget Sound at low tide 👷♀ What I’ve been working on Sewed another Topstitch Essential Shirt Made peach ice cream (my second flavor!) Playing with gouache and acrylic markers ✍ Blog posts Mid-2026 (making) goals check-in Sketchbook Dump 001 🌱 Digital gardening Added sharp to a couple projects, to resize blog post images via script (the most annoying part of writing a blog post IMO). This is one…
👷♀ What I’ve been working on Following along with Scribble Brigade workshops from Sophie McPike Changed out my key caps for the first time and learned how to mount Costar stabilizers Participated in another Urban Sketchers outing , the Greenwood car show Completed my first crochet project 🌱 Digital gardening Making blog : the logic for showing project details in the sidebar was a little…
Mid-late April and heading into May, I got body-slammed with probably the worst cold I’ve ever had (seems like folks all across the U.S. got this one, thanks spring breakers!). Daycare is building up the whole family’s immune systems. Besides illness, enjoying nature and beautiful spring days was the theme of this past April. 🧶 Crafting Toy Storage Cubes Plein Airpril 🧙🏻♀️ Side quests It us 💕…
I returned to work from my parental leave in mid-February, hence the lack of a Feb Learning Log. AI seems to be rewriting the game on the weekly, which has been an interesting environment to come back to. I was predictably nervous about adjusting back to working life as a first-time parent, but actually we’ve adjusted pretty quickly as a family ( *knock on wood* ). Our girl is so chill and happy…
My latest anti-fascist flair is from The Peach Fuzz . The dog is a portrait of me at parties Here in the U.S., ICE has been carrying on its proud tradition of committing human rights violations, as it continues to terrorize the country it purports to “secure”. So, I’ve been thinking a lot lately about despair and hopelessness vs hopeful, defiant collective action. Honestly, that looks like plenty…
Note: this is just the highlight reel. Every year has its share of challenges, too. I’ll always remember 2025 as the year I became a mother. I could maybe stop this post right there. I’m surprised by how much I enjoyed being pregnant, and I am still in awe of mine and Rahul’s beautiful little creature every day. Privacy via chubby little hands Work It feels odd to type up this section while on…
December flew by in the blink of an eye. Baby S “celebrated” her first Christmas. We devoured latkes with friends and played Scattergories with family over FaceTime. I hosted a readathon for the second year running. I turned a number of years old that makes me bemoan the passage of time…followed by gratitude that I am still here to pass that time and fill it with memories. 🧶 Crafting My quilt…
We have a two month old now! 😱 She’s started giving us the most beautiful social smiles and it’s the best thing ever. The little fingies!!! Baby S’s other grandparents (my in-laws) came all the way from India to spend time with her and incidentally experience their first Thanksgiving. S is the child who made them grandparents, so it was extra sweet and special to witness the three of them bonding…
Our first child turned a month old during October! We are solidly living in the baby time vortex. What hour is it? What day is it? Who knows! Apart from the endless eat / 💩 / sleep cycle, I’ve been: Spending time with my parents, who came to visit their grandchild Going on family neighborhood walks to gaze at fall foliage Watching all the spooky movies. I was really into Weapons (2025), and found…
My husband Rahul and I are pleased to announce our best beta (or shall I say beti?) launch yet! Our first child was born a few weeks early, in mid-September, and we are totally smitten with her 🥰 That is pretty much everything for this Learning Log! Keeping a tiny human safe and healthy and fed and reasonably happy is a whole-brain affair. 💕 Footnotes A rare triple entendre: beta in the software…
🧶 Crafting Finished knitting my second pair of socks ever, ones with flowers around the cuff Finally learned how to use my yarn ball winder and swift, which was actually pretty easy, fast, and fun Selected a color palette, ordered and washed fabric for the Granny Core Quilt in the baby size Attended my first live session of Sophie McPike’s Scribble Brigade and it was lovely 💖 Parallel play makes…
Dave’s blog post “How to make a Link Aggregator in Obsidian” inspired me to finally make my Learning Log process a little smarter, starting with the May 2025 log. What I had been doing Automatically syncing my Reader by Readwise highlights into Obsidian Going through the new articles manually and adding them to my blog post Markdown (also written in Obsidian) Obsidian enables you to customize to…
The big work win for July was that my team at Webflow shipped Interactions with GSAP ! 💚 This launch lays the foundation for the next generation of Webflow Interactions, which will unlock visual-first animation for everyone. There’s so much yet to come with how we’ll bring the GSAP library’s superpowers into the visual builder, but I’m proud of what the team accomplished and excited for what’s…
🧶 Crafting I completed two sewing projects in June: My first knit dress, a mild “hack” of the Closet Core T-Shirt pattern A canvas project bag for my knitting, made with a fabric of hamsters shaped like onigiri (!!!) Photo of the fabric courtesy of Stonemountain & Daughter 🧪 Tiny experiments This month I read and appreciated “Tiny Experiments” by Anne-Laure Le Cunff . The author proposes that…
When I first got into product management, the software development process resembled a Niagara-sized waterfall approach. This may be a familiar story to you: the Product Manager (PM) talks to customers, puts together a thorough product spec, gets that in front of cross-functional peers and stakeholders for review, and so on. Throwing a fully-featured, bajillion-page spec over the wall doesn’t feel…
🧶 Crafting Finished my first colorwork sock, with a flower motif along the cuff. Next up, start the second sock! Started a t-shirt dress hack from the Closet Core T-shirt . In May I printed, cut, and adapted the pattern; then I ironed and cut the fabric. 🧙🏻♀️ Side quests First-time visit to Montreal My husband and I both had a fantastic time exploring Montreal—even more fun than we had…
Long after the zeitgeist has passed, I’m upholding my link in the blogging questions chain. Thanks to Dave and Eric for tagging me in on one of my favorite topics ! Why did you start blogging in the first place? I suppose it depends on how far back you go. The first blogging-type activity I can remember is getting on LiveJournal in middle school, at a time when the Internet felt (to me) like a…
The biggest share of my brainspace at work lately: Webflow + GSAP have made the GSAP library 100% free ! Everyone in the web community can use all of GSAP—including previously-paid plugins—for free, whether on or off Webflow. We’ve also made the library suuuuper easy to install on Webflow sites, to use with custom code. It has been such a lovely experience working with Jack and Cassie from GSAP,…
March went by in the blink of an eye, between traveling for half the month and trying to keep moving forward in spite of the constant state of crisis Americans find ourselves in. 🧶 Crafting Made great progress on my first Colorwork Cuff Club sock ; I’m knitting the flowers from the August pattern—though with my dark green color they look more like clovers perhaps. I’ve completed the cuff, heel,…
🧶 Crafting Closet Core T-Shirt : finally wrote a blog post for my first ever t-shirt, which I sewed in February! Finished knitting a Seattle Kraken beanie, which also needs a blog post. Started knitting my second pair of socks. This time I’m trying out colorwork on socks; I’ve learned the technique on clothing items that are more forgiving when it comes to fit and stretchiness (like the hat).…
I can’t even begin to state how rough January was for my mental health due to Political Circumstances; you may be feeling the same. Let’s be excellent to each other these next 4 years. We can’t control how our politicians show up, but we can nudge the course of things in tiny, positive ways. Every bit of joy or good you create means something, no matter how small or insignificant it may feel to…
👩💻 Career 2024 brought plenty of change, work-wise: In February I wrapped up my time on the product team at Netlify , and will forever treasure my experiences with so many lovely humans. Seriously. In March I started a role as Staff Product Manager on the Styles team at Webflow ! This was one of those it’s-like-it-was-made-for-me roles, and I’ve had so much fun over the year collaborating with…
Melanie Sumner once mentioned wanting to trade lists of favorite stationery items, so what do I do? Make a whole little site, but of course! Melanie in Analog documents how I use my notebooks for memory keeping (run-of-the-mill journaling) and planning work and life. I have examples on the site of each of the pages and spreads I use consistently to organize my brain. There’s also a list of…
💙 Webflow This “monthly” Learning Log is a double feature because I have been just so dang busy at work! A few highlights from October and November: Webflow held our annual conference. Garrett Berg and I spoke about design systems in Webflow , and we had just the most fun time getting to meet our customers throughout the event. We also announced at Webflow Conf that we are welcoming GSAP to the…
🚀 Shipping My team at work released variable reordering and bulk actions for variables ! It’s been so heartening to note how welcome this change was for Webflow users. I’m especially proud of the engineers for being game to implement some tricky but necessary keyboard navigation patterns. 🧶 Crafting 🪡 Finished sewing up a matchy-matchy PJ set 🪡 Started my foray into clothes you wear outside…
2024 continues to race by, and August was no exception. This month found me: Doing a bit of hiking and drawing en plein air Spending time with friends Catching the garment-sewing bug Clearing all my queues (to-read list on The StoryGraph, to-watch lists on streaming services) Right at the end of August I had a minor injury that meant I was down for the count all of Labor Day weekend. It’s…
Summer is in full swing over here in Seattle! In July I attended a couple food festivals with friends (the 50th annual Ballard Seafood Fest; Bite of Seattle), hiked my first trail of the year :lol-sob: , and sketched en plein air. A glen in Seattle On top Little Si A friend of mine also invited me along to an artist talk and exhibition opening with Jai Sallay-Carrington at Pottery Northwest…
I have long lamented the fact that Snowflake doesn’t enable you to add open text to your dashboard in Snowsight (their web UI). Often I want to: Add a description to the dashboard Link to an accompanying analysis doc Structure the dashboard with headings Add notes clarifying how the data was queried, what caveats exist, externalities that might show up, etc. One of the data scientists at my…
My husband and I visited my family in Gainesville, FL for Father’s Day and my niece’s fifth birthday. Still a Cool Fun Aunt, fingers crossed that status holds!🤞🏻 This was a particularly nature-filled trip: my husband had never seen an alligator before—crocodiles, yes—so we made it our mission to spot one. We apparently just missed a big one that had wandered further into the UF campus from Lake…
In all my years as an absolute book fiend with a personal website, I’ve never hosted my reading list here! That’s now changed with a Reading page, the start of a new /is/ section of my site. This site is built with the Eleventy SSG, and I’m using the Airtable API to bring in book data. Let’s explore how it’s built! But first, the data Choosing a data source At the beginning of the year I signed up…
How about that aurora?! We got to catch the aurora borealis over our neighborhood in Seattle , and I’m still so surprised and grateful that I got to have that bucket-list-level experience. Webflow retreat Also in gratifying experiences, Webflow held an all-team retreat in Quebec City, ~2 months into my tenure. That timeframe struck a lovely balance between having enough context into the team,…
While discussing impostor syndrome with friends recently, I was shocked to realize that for me it had mostly…gone away??? So much of my career has been plagued by (often very painful) feelings that I’m no good, and sooner or later everyone else will figure that out too. This current state of freedom would’ve been inconceivable. That got me thinking about what helped inspire this change. I found…
Seeing the Northern Lights has been on my bucket list for a long time. I thought I would have to travel North to Alaska or to Scandinavia, then get lucky to get a glimpse of the lights. Never would I have imagined I would get to see the aurora right over my house. And yet!! I was moved to tears last night, gazing up at the night sky over my street. Without further ado, here a few favorite snaps of…
How is it May already? That feels unreal. April went by in a flash of flowers, figuring out which way is up at my new organization, and enjoying new-to-me restaurants around town. 🚢 Shipping I started my new role at Webflow in mid–late March, so April was a blend of continuing to onboard, forming a product area vision and strategy, and starting to be useful. The engineering team I’m working with…
New role at Webflow The biggest personal event lately is my transition to a new role at Webflow! I’m a Lead Product Manager (IC position, believe it or not) focused on styles and interactions in the Designer product. The Designer is the main environment where users visually build websites. I can’t seem to write about this topic without a heap of sappiness and a light dusting of corporate cheese.…
Earlier this month I had a week and a half in between jobs. What I would usually do when suddenly presented with a large chunk of free personal time is: Panic about all the side projects I don’t usually have time + energy for Try to do too many of these projects End up with some combination of 1) not taking sufficient time to rest, and 2) not achieving much at all, due to flitting around like a…
Learning blackletter calligraphy In honor of Austin Kleon’s “29-day Practice and Suck Less challenge” , I decided to try learning blackletter calligraphy once and for all—specifically Textura Quadrata , the earliest and simplest form of blackletter calligraphy, dating back to 11th century Europe. As a lefty, any form of calligraphy has not been very accessible to me; lefthanded people generally…
Blah winter vibes this January with a cold snap that brought the weather into the teens (Fahrenheit) for ~a week in Seattle, WA. I tried to lean into coziness by learning how to bake bread (4 years after everyone else, it seems), knitting, and reading by a lit scented candle. Shipping With my co-workers at Netlify: Shipped sorting and filtering for the Sites list Chatted with colleagues about the…
Over the weekend I built a new little site that’s been on my mind: Lit Tapes ! I read a couple books in the past few months that heavily featured music throughout the plot, and thought it would be fun to create playlists for those books. I’ve told myself “no more forever projects” , but I just can’t seem to help myself. In any case, I don’t foresee updating this site frequently—just whenever I…
Not going to lie, this was a challenging year. There were certainly some high points, but also quite a fair bit of stress and change and uncertainty running throughout. It’s the year my husband and I finally got COVID—but it’s also the year I get to call him my husband! Let’s go to the highlight reel. Experienced Rahul and I got married twice, on two continents! Once for extended family in the…
In August 2022, I was casually browsing through Jetpens (as one does), and thought I might like to give fountain pens one last try. I’m lefthanded, and the fountain pens I tried in the past felt scratchy and difficult to write with. But they seemed so neat! I found and ordered a Lamy Safari with a left-handed nib. Their lefty nibs are similar to a Western medium-sized nib, and have a special grind…
Luckily for Seattleites, the SAM has a Hokusai exhibit going on through end of January. Something that really surprised me is how small the famous wave block print is: it was slightly larger than a legal sized piece of paper. The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Hokusai, 1831 I suppose I shouldn’t be so surprised by this—it’s a wood block print after all—but I have in other cases gawked at some pretty…
I have yet to meet a product manager who feels they have enough time for vision, strategy, or customer discovery. It’s pretty concerning that so many of us feel we don’t have enough time for our most impactful responsibilities . And yet, it’s so easy to get caught up in the high daily demands of execution. There is so much work to be done, and shipping just feels so good. I have experimented with…
The social calendar does not seem to be slowing down, despite our transition into fall and the pandemic raging on. This month was full, with returning from our honeymoon to Netlify Compose , Dewey’s Readathon, a double spooky movie night (new tradition I’m hosting!), an annual pumpkin potluck, various monthly meetups. My pocket-sized Q4 bullet journal (details on my Mastodon post ) Web whatnot I…
Note: I’m posting my monthly update in the midst of a crisis harming Israelis and Palestinians, which includes some of my co-workers. I’m an outsider who can’t begin to understand what that feels like. What I do know and want to acknowledge is that all humans deserve to be safe; to have their needs met; and furthermore to thrive. Honeymoon The hillside in Maiori on the Amalfi Coast, Italy In…
Planning out long-term career goals has always been a challenge for me, and I’ve come to accept that it’s for good reason: I am led by curiosity and want to keep my options open for what sparks my interest. That said, I am not happy unless I’m continuously growing. For my fellow malleable achiever-types, what I’ve found works really nicely is setting quarterly goals. It’s a long enough period that…
Welllllp. I finally caught Covid this month. My husband and I have been able to dodge it for just over 3 1/2 years—having been on the more cautious end of the behavioral bell curve—but this summer surge came for us. This pandemic is awful but very thankfully we’re feeling better now, minus the odd coughing fit. 🌱 Digital Gardening I disallowed Open AI’s GPTBot from crawling any of my sites’…