If we haven't met yet, hi! I'm Lara. Thanks for coming.
I love to write about and share my work with web technologies, as well as general life topics and creative undertakings. Hopefully you'll find something of interest, and maybe learn something new!
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I am in Amsterdam, visiting many coffee shops (that's actual coffee shops, not "coffee shops", mind you). I just had a very incredible muffin and created an award to commemorate it!
I took a deep dive into this question, and the answer is: kinda, mostly, yeah! CSS + HTML (duh) + user input is Turing complete. Is it possible to remove the user input part? Then I can re-title this post to be more, ahem, declarative.
Cantaloupe, a.k.a. Deadline.com, has launched!!! This installment of the Chronicles discusses the project's huge success, the beginnings of a design system roadmap, and an introduction to Blueberry, the next code-named redesign for PMC.
Something really disturbing and malicious has been happening to my personal laptop over the past couple of months. This post is part true, part April Fools' joke.
This post is an account of pair programming with a fellow front-end developer to figure out a tricky responsive layout issue. Time for a CSS algorithm!
Have you ever read or learned something and wondered how you were able to operate without that knowledge before? I don't say this lightly: this book is game changer.
This is the first official installment of a new tradition, Binary Birthday, where I re-learn binary every year on my birthday and express my new age as 1s and 0s.
I am about to turn [age] tomorrow. I sat down a few minutes ago to do some last minute reflection on my life so far, and instead opened up my RSS feed. I’m glad I did because I saw this article by Ben Callahan on Sparkbox’s blog, the Foundry.
And here is Part 2! Read this for technical notes about how the Cantaloupe pattern architecture is working out, examples of CSS algorithms, and (for us) the solved problem of JavaScript.
It's a month later than I would have liked, but at long last an update on project Cantaloupe which is full steam ahead on development. What's it like to build and use a design system at the same time? In Part 1, we talk workflow, CSS utilities, and houses of cards.
I had a great day exploring Queens this weekend. Highlights include coffee, a large biscuit sandwich, coffee, the Socrates Sculpture Park, and unexpectedly encountering some of my family's heritage!
The WordPress admin bar mixed with a fixed menu can be an annoyance. Here's an imperfect CSS algorithm that uses a couple of custom properties to help with that!
The methods for white-boarding algorithm questions serve us quite well when writing CSS algorithms. This post is a written portion of the second half of version 1 of the Algorithms of CSS.
I do not have the time or energy to write a full blog post, so instead I will share some interesting documentation about writing one-off patterns in our in-progress design system under a hash-tag I just came up with called #ShareYourDocs.
Clarity Conference was back at the beginning of December last year, but better late than never, right? I took handwritten notes on my iPad and have (finally) transcribed them for your scanning pleasure.
This post contains an extremely ambitious list of all the things I want to do this year. Will I get to all of it? Any of it? Time will tell, but I hope some of it, at least!
Wowww...so much cool stuff has happened in the past month! This installment of Designgineering Chronicles is full of milestones and an outline of a some real deal system architecture for a project underway, code-named Cantaloupe.
