Tyler Sticka
Tyler Sticka
Tyler Sticka
I’m a design leader and creative technologist. I write about design process, web standards, art, technology, comic books, video games or whatever else captures my interest, often accompanied by original illustrations and/or bespoke art direction.
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It’s been 13 years, 2 months and 12 days since I joined Cloud Four. But today’s my last as its Creative Director and a full-time team member: I’ve decided it’s time for something new. Words can’t adequately express how grateful I am to...
Hello, RSS reader! 👋 This post has some bespoke art direction you’ll only see if you view it directly. No hard feelings if you prefer to read here, I just wanted you to know! ✌️It seems Dark Horse Comics will close their “Things From...
In the spirit of seasonal home organizing, here are several dependency updates I’ve made to this site since my last refactor follow-up (most quite recently). Fonts After years of embedding my heading fonts via Adobe, I finally started...
Hello, RSS reader! 👋 This post has some bespoke art direction you’ll only see if you view it directly. No hard feelings if you prefer to read here, I just wanted you to know! ✌️ Superhero fans have debated for decades which character has...
Since refactoring my site back in 2023, authoring posts is pretty simple. But to make it even easier, I wrote a little helper script. When I run node tools/new from my project directory, the script… Greets me with some friendly kaomoji...
Hello, RSS reader! 👋 This post has some bespoke art direction you’ll only see if you view it directly. No hard feelings if you prefer to read here, I just wanted you to know! ✌️ When I fall in love with a piece of art or entertainment, I...
I’ll cut to the chase: Our calendar is light, and we need more projects. Especially projects with a UX design, UI design or hybrid creative/development focus. Small projects? No prob, we’ve got individual high-velocity contributors to...
I was delighted to present this talk at the final (for now) episode of The Eleventy Meetup: Eleventy Build Awesome is great for rapid prototyping! Tyler shows off a few of his favorite shortcodes, filters and other techniques to quickly...
I’ve never been much of a foodie. Between being a picky eater as a kid and some gastrointestinal issues as an adult, I’d describe my relationship to food as mildly adversarial. Consequently, I was never interested in cooking. That...
Hello, RSS reader! 👋 This post has some bespoke art direction you’ll only see if you view it directly. No hard feelings if you prefer to read here, I just wanted you to know! ✌️I used a Logitech K800 “Wireless Illuminated” keyboard for...
My buddy Christopher Kirk-Nielsen wanted to mimic the look of a <legend> inside a <fieldset> for a section of a blog post: Specifically, the way the <legend> element magically overlays and partially clips the border of the containing...
Hello, RSS reader! 👋 This post has some bespoke art direction you’ll only see if you view it directly. No hard feelings if you prefer to read here, I just wanted you to know! ✌️As much as I enjoy books, comics, music and animation, I...
On the web, it’s easy to take line breaks for granted. We get them for free between our headings, paragraphs, list items, <div> elements and more. We display them as-is in our code snippets thanks to <pre>. And most magically of all, our...
It was July of 2009. Twitter wasn’t a cesspool yet, and I’d released two silly mashups using its API: Portwiture, which built a Flickr mood board from keywords you’d tweeted, and TweetPlus, which discovered where your friends were...