Archives | Mike Fowler

2017

04 September Recap: July & August 2017
02 September Happiness, fulfillment
01 August To Share a City
01 August To Share a City
19 July Recap: June 2017
05 June Recap: May 2017
24 May Another kind of home
17 May It’s the people!
30 April The privilege of a nomadic lifestyle
23 April Thoughts on long-distance friendship
17 April On the process of unlearning apathy
01 April Recap: March 2017
09 March On Beginnings
09 March On Beginnings

2016

28 April Relatively liberal
26 April When failure means progress
20 April Red
19 April Happy birthday
18 April The drug we call “notifications”
17 April The most mundane art
15 April Dim the stars
14 April Earth, sky
13 April Whole humans
10 April A body of one’s own
08 April The death of places that never were
07 April Wiretap our heads
06 April Sitting in the kitchen
05 April Derailed
04 April Sand castle metaphors
03 April #casualmisogyny
02 April Our eyes
01 April Are we candles?
30 March Riding buses
29 March Far and away…
28 March Hope
27 March Say nothing
25 March Smells like home
24 March Thursday night lycanthropy
23 March Quietly longing
22 March Our secrets in binary
21 March He ran into the room panting
20 March Saying No to God
19 March At an intersection near my house
18 March Conch shell
17 March On the 38
16 March Non-fiction romance
15 March The inconvenience of friendship
14 March We drank the wine of coconuts
13 March Wading through rubbish
13 March Men, we should all be feminists
11 March We help each other
10 March Rich, but in what?
09 March Lest our spirits wither
28 February Bali & Sydney, Day 3
27 February Bali & Sydney, Day 1 & 2
25 February Wandering, writing
24 February For a child
23 February If you walk up the back property line
22 February I Don’t Get Sick
17 February The world, indeed, is small
16 February Dearly conflicted
15 February Ambition at what expense
14 February Ageless admiration
13 February On reverence
12 February The single story of manhood
11 February Batter up
10 February Observations on “quality of life”
09 February Set free the enormous eye
08 February Set it free
07 February This city is a symphony
06 February On a Saturday night
05 February On a Friday night
04 February To be the foreign animal
03 February Each morning
02 February Being blinded by our ideas
01 February On routines
31 January The shadows move
30 January “Prochaine station…”
29 January Thoughts on identity
28 January Growing older with acceptance
27 January Nights to test your resolve
26 January Gentrification, branded
25 January The moon over the Bay
24 January The desire for the journey
23 January Frosted in light
23 January Me and my incurable disease
21 January Dear Mike
21 January In every broken heart
20 January Johnny Appleseed, you’re drunk.
20 January On the rediscovery of complex writing
20 January We Ripped Out of the City
20 January Niagara at night
19 January For the past fifty days
18 January Qualifying a life
17 January We go place to place
16 January Write even when you don’t feel like it
15 January Heraclitus, you brilliant old sage
14 January The fleeting moments that live forever
13 January I am not a writer
12 January Optimism is a choice
11 January Being okay with okay
10 January The better realities we see
09 January The implicit beauty of trust
08 January I'm a pathetic, goo-prone human.
07 January The creeping habitualization of convenience
06 January What can technology learn from humans?
05 January New traditions
03 January Keep it for yourself
02 January Time blindness
01 January Towards a year of writing

2014

11 June Backbone with ES6
10 June Drawing with GeoJSON
22 April Cached images and the “load” event
24 March Resolving pretty URLs with Backbone (like Soundcloud!)
20 February Handlebars template helpers in Backbone.Marionette
23 January Testing your webapp with device emulators
14 January JavaScript in your Terminal

2013

17 December Reinstating attached view options in Backbone 1.1.0
18 November Page Transitions in Backbone
28 October Coffeescript source maps with Yeoman
28 October The anchor “target” attribute
20 October Brooklyn Beta Recap
17 October Support for BEM modules in Sass 3.3
14 October Generating static styleguides with Grunt and KSS
08 October Neglect your job (sometimes).
26 September Replacing jQuery with Zepto in your Backbone project
19 September Reboot.
01 January A new frontier in 2013

2012

15 October Onward. Westward.
22 September Crafting scalable stylesheets
16 August An early look at CSS3 Conditional Rules
14 August Efficient theming with Sass
23 July Font-face syntax in Compass
30 May File cloning in Sublime Text
15 February Is device-friendly development a responsibility?
03 February The role of humility in community contribution
09 January Professional goals for 2012

2011

20 December Our obligation as developers
14 December Settling on a content system
08 December Passing content to mixins in Sass