Robert Nealan is a Colorado-based designer+engineer, the founder of Atomi Design, & the current DPR of the Telluride Wheelhouse.
This is actually a 2-3 week roundup as I didn't come across much to share until this past week. An amazing tweet thread showing off retro 1980's "CGI" from movies that was actually done using physical models The previous reminded me of this great
Credit to my colleague (and new office mate!) Dave Paola for the inspiration of the weekly roundup post format. Also, winter is here! Senator Ron Wyden introduced a bill that would impose GDPR-like fines and even stricter prison sentences for data privacy violations. Don't see this passing with
It'd been a few (happy) years since I last used Wordpress for a client project, but with its now (questionably-)stable REST API it came up last year as a potential candidate for backing a React-based magazine/news site. After doing some digging it became clear that it
While working as a frontend developer means I get to experiment with new javascript frameworks on at least a yearly basis, it's far less frequent that I get to interact with new, native browser technologies, let alone ones that have wide enough support to be used in production.
On any given day I probably have at least a dozen new ideas of what to build floating around in my head, but for one reason or another most come and go without much further thought. About a year ago now one of those ideas floated into my head, and
Over the past several years the topic of the designer who codes has generated quite the lot of controversy within the tech community. Some camps believe designers shouldn't distract themselves with code and instead maintain their roots in graphic design as pixel-pushers, while others think that designers should
On June 3rd, 2016 my girlfriend and I left San Francisco for New York City, kicking off the start of a 6 1/2 month journey that would take us around the world until we return to California just before the Christmas holiday. While its all been extremely exciting, traveling
After reading entirely too many articles and a lot of trial & error, I've written this guide on how to get HTTPS working on a DigitalOcean-powered, Nginx-backed Ghost blog using LetsEncrypt's free SSL certificates. For years people have argued whether it's worth setting up
I still remember getting my first cell phone. The year was 1999 and my mom passed down her beater of a silver Sprint flip phone. For the time it was high tech, featuring an exterior notification screen, polyphonic ringtones, and a few games that would later look “totally lame&
It seemed like 2015 went by fast, but I've blinked twice and it's already almost the end of January halfway through February (okay I've really been procrastinating on this post). For years I've read “years in review” by others in
Or, the case against hosted blogging options. More and more I find myself reading articles on blog networks, and by networks I mean Medium . There was a promising short lived moment where smaller, topic-oriented blog networks like Svbtle (amongst others) started appearing, but even those seem to have gone by
I've always thought that if something in life is important enough you shouldn't need a yearly resolution to make that change. Unfortunately life isn't that simple, so after more than a decade of abstaining from resolutions I've decided to give it a
To those who know me personally it's no secret that I love a good adventure. Whether it's traveling in a foreign country or biking across my own, testing your limits by pushing yourself outside your normal comfort zone positively expands your character in a way that
Every year there's a few design trends on the web that make their rounds. Some are recognized as good design patterns and persist while others gradually fade out. Thankfully most of these trends are tacky and cringeworthy at worst (web 2.0 rounded glossy buttons anybody?), but every
This post is intended to be a regularly updated list of tools, articles, and other goodies that help make designing in the browser both easier and more efficient. If you're currently a designer-developer hopefully you might learn something new of use, while if you're new to