Plymouth Not Chevrolet
Caught a little by surprise but this one. When you see the Suburban sign I normally think Chevrolet but this is a Plymouth. Late 40’s Woody.
Category: Stuff I Learned
Tree of Life Detail
There is a path that leads you right in front of the Tree of Life at Disney’s Animal Kingdom. Doesn’t say that its a path right in front of the Tree of Life. If the path is open (may not have been the last few times I’ve been to the park). You get to see some of the genius details of that sculpture. Click on image to see larger view.
Loving CodePen
I am having so much fun with CodePen.io it is a really nice environment where the weekly challenges. There are such an assortment of people and skill levels there. Codepen has been around for at least four years and I am so happy I found them. Thanks to the whole team for building such a wonderful sandbox for playing with HTML and CSS (and yes too Javascript). I am MrRoberts there. look me up.
Hidden Store with WInd Chimes
When you think you want to straighten an image and then realize it is straight, it’s just the walls are crooked.
Challenging Work
See the Pen Food Truck Challenge by Jim Roberts (@MrRoberts) on CodePen.
Codepen.io has weekly challenges that are fun to try your skills on. This is my first go at a Food Truck menu. Not much yet in it that feels truckish but lets see what else we can do.
Hemstitching & Picoting
A picot is a loop of thread created for functional or ornamental purposes along the edge of lace or ribbon, or crocheted, knitted or tatted fabric. The loops vary in size according to their function and artistic intention.
Such fine detail in the windows on Main Street. Love the needle and thread.
Learning CSS
I’ve been, shall we say, fixated on learning CSS lately. Or should I say it’s been 10 years since I last worked with CSS. Boy have they made it much more usable. Things like Flexbox and Grid make it much easier to make stable websites. I’ve also discovered https::www.codepen.io which is a fabulous site for experimenting with web front end development. I can also recommend Kevin Powell‘s channel on YouTube. He is kind of the Mr. Rogers of CSS. So below is a Codepen that I put together to so I can remember what the keyword values do for the overflow property.
Old Dog Learning New Tricks
I am someone who has a tendency to immerse myself it things that interest me to the point where I spend a good amount of time learning the subject to the point where I can really use the knowledge learned. Right now I am up to my eyeballs in learning CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). I did a fairly deep dive a number of years ago to the point that I was able to build websites that were at least not unpleasant to look at. Over the last few years CSS has been updated a lot. I’ve dived back into it.
One of the things I can recommend is Codepen.io a site that lets you create and test CSS and Javascript in a sandbox environment. I use it to store things that I have learned about specific CSS code such as margin and padding. This gives me a reference anytime I forget exactly what some thing does. There are a lot of wonderful code smith’s that you can follow that are doing amazing things with CSS.
Another really useful tool is the You Tube Chanel of Kevin Powell. He has over 300 video on working on the front-end of the web. I highly recommend his videos.
At the moment I’m redoing my landing page for Noded.us The code I used was state of the art in 2008, not so much now. So an update was and is in order.
Lost Expolers Hall
This sign is hidden in plain sight along the entrance to Islands of Adventure. Do you know where it is?