Lara Schenck
Artist, programmer, researcher
All Posts
Ordered reverse-chronologically.
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What is a CSS algorithm?
It’s been almost two years since the first time I gave my talk on CSS algorithms. What is a CSS algorithm? Great question.
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Pittsburgh / “hell with the lid taken off”
Vestiges of Pittsburgh’s legacy as “Smoketown” or “hell with the lid taken off” still remain.
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Designgineering Chronicles: Swan Song [PiH]
The last installment of the Designgineering Chronicles. The work itself is far from over, but I am very over writing these posts.
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This holographic monster would love to be on the back of your phone
Gotta love this monster’s candid expression!
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Twitter thread as blog post: Thoughts on how we write CSS
(Warning: thought-leadery post) Problems with CSS are not a result of flaws in CSS. The problem is how we write CSS.
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Extremely cute "box programmer" stickers / new personal card!
This is possibly the cutest thing I have ever created! The middle illustration peels off into its own sticker.
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A Larva win and small update [WiH]
A quick share of what I consider a significant win for Larva, the design system I started at PMC that is now a very official thing at the company.
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Does the "continuous" in Continuous Integration come from continuous mathematics?
A quick post about realizing an intersection between my existing knowledge and something new I am learning. Well, maybe they are both new things.
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Monster who is genuinely interested in what you have to say
If you’re ever frustrated, feeling like, “No one is listening to me!!” just look at this sweet monster.
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Note to future Lara: Read code before you write code during research & development
A lesson learned during research and development for a new project at work.
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2019: Year in Review
What happened in 2019? Lots of good things and some not as good things. This post is mostly about the good things in my life!
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Email list revival! Monthly Monster + Blog Posts
I have at long last revived my email list! Sign up to receive a monthly monster + feed of recent blog posts in your inbox. What a sweet deal!
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tweet + iterate = tweeterate [WiH]
An idea for a word / concept that might make tweeting a more pleasant experience for me. Written in haste.
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Podcast Recommendation: Finding Fred
I honestly feel refreshed as a human being after listening to this podcast about Fred Rogers, and how the values from the Mr. Rogers show apply to our world today. 10/10 recommend.
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Emo-shapes #1
This shape embodies the illusion that everyone else knows exactly where to go, and fits perfectly into what they do.
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How you can use impostor syndrome to your benefit by Mike Cannon-Brookes
I started writing a year in review post, but ended up watching a talk about impostor syndrome…
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Becoming a better developer by using the SOLID design principles by Katerina Trajchevska
This conference talk is a great introduction to the S.O.L.I.D. software design principles. How do these principles manifest when it comes to UI programming with HTML/CSS?
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Twitter thread as blog post about "We Are Programmers"
I had a lot of impassioned thoughts while on a run today and decided to bang out this Twitter-thread-blog-post instead of letting them die a slow, silent death, alone in my brain, as they often do.
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Researching DSL stuff, ended up on context-free grammar
Hastily written post with the results of some free-form Saturday language research.
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#ShareYourDocs: Basic CSS Utility Class Generator in Larva
A bit of documentation I wrote for a Sass mixin that outputs utility classes based on a map of values.
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Saturday, plant-based monsters
These monsters are enjoying the weekend so far! Looks like they won’t be going anywhere.
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#ShareYourDocs: The start of Larva’s Naming Guidelines Wiki
There is a borderline overwhelming amount of documentation to be written, but gotta start somewhere! Here’s a kinda random first addition to Larva’s Naming Guidelines wiki page.
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.a-pull: A CSS algorithm for pulling one box outside another
Here’s a quick write up about a CSS algorithm we just created at PMC! It seems like it will be useful in future projects, and we now have a programmatic term to use to refer to this kind of UI design pattern.
