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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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...