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• Fine, I'll Look Into Grad School

  Republished 21 November 2022 Originally Published 22 September 2019 Updated 28 October 2019

• I’m Done (For Now)

  Republished 20 November 2022 Originally Published 23 September 2020

• Finding The Color Contrast of Colors Specified With the New CSS Color Functions

  Republished 19 November 2022 Originally Published 15 February 2022

• Why a11y Isn't Ironically Inaccessible

  Republished 18 November 2022 Originally Published 20 November 2020

• CSS-Tricks is joining DigitalOcean!

  css-tricks.com

  Published 6 November 2022

• Is CSS a Programming Language?

  css-tricks.com

  Republished 1 November 2022 Originally Published 17 May 2021

• Rare "historic" footage and history by Adrian Gray Comedy

  www.youtube.com/c/AdrianGrayComedy

  Published 31 October 2022

• All The Other Interesting Links of October 2022

  Published 30 October 2022

• Jessica Wade Makes Wikipedia bios For Unknown Women Scientists

  www.today.com

  Published 30 October 2022

• This Little $4,500 Electric Car is the Hottest Thing in China Right Now [VIDEO 4:29]

  youtube.com/c/Goldthread2

  Published 29 October 2022

• YouTube SHOULD charge for 4K. Hear me out. [VIDEO 20:09]

  youtube.com/c/LinusTechTips

  Published 28 October 2022

• My Trip to Cape Town Part 1—Travelling at Last

  Published 27 October 2022

• My USA Trip Part 1—A False Start

  Published 26 October 2022

• Spud

  Published 20 October 2022

• Big Tech employees are TikToking on the job — and their bosses don’t always like it

  www.theverge.com

  Published 15 October 2022

• getCSSSelector

  Published 14 October 2022

• Time

  Published 13 October 2022

• The Messy Debate Over Student Loan Forgiveness [AUDIO: 39:52]

  theringer.com/plain-english-with-derek-thompson-podcast

  Published 20 September 2022

• Trying This Personal Website Thing Once Again

  Published 19 September 2022

• Making Breadcrumbs in Hugo

  Published 3 September 2022

• Paradise Killer

  Published 2 September 2022

• Ukraine Flag (109 Bytes)

  Published 26 July 2022

• How To Convert Animated WebP Images to Videos

  Published 22 July 2022

• Jimmy Saville: A British Horror Story

  Published 21 July 2022

• This Is Going To Hurt

  Published 20 July 2022

• Awake

  Published 18 July 2022

• Please Stop Killing Nuclear

  Published 17 July 2022 Updated 17 October 2022

• When Facebook Peaked (To Me)

  Published 16 July 2022

• Digital Gluttony

  Published 15 July 2022 Updated 19 July 2022

• If You Do The Same Thing Over and Over Again and it Involves a Computer, Consider Automation

  Published 14 July 2022

• I'm Bad at Information Architecture and I Don't Know What To Do About It

  Published 11 July 2022 Updated 19 July 2022

• Fine, I Guess I'll Just Write Shit

  Published 6 July 2022

• Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room

  Published 27 May 2022

• The Problem with Apu

  Published 26 May 2022 Updated 27 May 2022

• My List of Ls

  Published 8 March 2022

• I Got A Bike!

  Published 7 March 2022

• Downfall: Case Against Boeing

  Published 2 March 2022

• Clarkson's Farm

  Published 1 March 2022

• Improving Netlify's Default HTTP Cache-Control Headers for Immutable Assets

  Published 14 February 2022

• King Richard

  Published 29 January 2022

• Yes, We Should Ban Cars As Well

  Published 26 January 2022

• Don't Look Up

  Published 25 January 2022

• Ready Player One

  Published 25 January 2022

• Looking Back At 2021

  Published 20 January 2022

• What I plan to write and make in 2022

  Published 18 January 2022

• Goodbye 2021, Hello 2022

  Published 17 January 2022 Updated 7 August 2022

• Top 10 Web-Design Mistakes of 2021 [VIDEO 21:00]

  youtube.com/c/NNgroup/

  Published 12 January 2022

• Rendering a Copyright Footer In Hugo

  Republished 31 December 2021 Originally Published 31 December 2020 Updated 4 March 2021

• “Imagine if Doctors Relied on Google As Much As Programmers Do”

  Published 16 December 2021

• Confessions of a Video Vixen

  Published 16 September 2021

• Archives to My Old Content

  Published 7 September 2021 Updated 1 August 2022

• An Economist Walks Into A Brothel and Other Unexpected Places To Understand Risk

  Published 1 September 2021

• Give Your Illustrations Dark Mode With This Simple Trick

  Published 10 July 2021

• You Can Give A Website Dark Mode With Just One CSS Property

  Published 26 June 2021 Updated 31 December 2021

• I Got Vaccinated Against COVID-19 In Zimbabwe. Here's How It Went

  Published 20 June 2021 Updated 19 January 2022

• Initial Impressions of My New Laptop After Using It For A Month

  Published 14 June 2021

• Converting Video into Animated Images Using FFmpeg

  Published 10 June 2021

• The Defining Decade

  Published 5 June 2021

• My Other Tech Interviews

  Published 22 May 2021

• Random Notes About My Trip To Indonesia

  Published 20 May 2021 Updated 6 July 2022

• list-style:none Removes Semantics From Lists

  Published 15 May 2021 Updated 24 May 2021

• Hey Reddit, I Don't Want To Install Your Fucking App

  Published 13 May 2021 Updated 8 July 2022

• Where I've Traveled In The 2010s

  Published 12 May 2021

• Don't Use Sci-Hub

  Published 8 May 2021

• Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!

  Published 7 May 2021 Updated 27 May 2021

• Reject Screenshots—Embrace Archives; When You Wanna Screenshot a Page, Archive It As Well

  Published 5 May 2021

• How to Get HEVC Video Extensions for Windows 10 For Free

  Published 2 May 2021

• Adding Permissive CORS to Netlify

  Published 23 March 2021

• Bias In AI

  Published 23 March 2021

• Sticky Footer Using Flexbox With Just 4 CSS Declarations

  Published 21 March 2021

• Don't Be Afraid To Sell Your Stuff

  Published 9 March 2021

• I'm Not Ready To Blog And Program Again and I Doubt I Ever Will So I'll Figure It Out As I Go

  Published 4 March 2021

• An ISO 8601 Date Snippet For VS Code

  Published 21 December 2020

• Where You Can Find The Various Default Web Browser Style Sheets

  Published 6 November 2020 Updated 17 July 2021

• An Easy Way To Get Youtubers To Add Captions To Their Videos

  Published 20 September 2020 Updated 24 October 2022

• Making My Senior Project Virtual Jo: The Handy MCSP Helper

  Published 16 May 2020

• I Should Have Saved My Old Stuff

  Published 15 May 2020

• Hey Look, I Made My First Open Source Contribution!

  Published 27 February 2020 Updated 16 September 2020

• Goodbye fgandiya, Hello faraixyz

  Published 28 January 2020

• I Actually Made Money In 2019—$1.81 To Be Exact

  Published 20 January 2020 Updated 12 September 2020

• Expressing Gratitude

  Published 7 January 2020

• SUPPUASTPDS Episode 1: Bad HTML Could Cost You Millions?

  Published 11 October 2019 Updated 25 May 2021

• My Experience As A Web Development Volunteer

  Published 29 September 2019 Updated 4 November 2020

• A Really Bad Way To Extract Data From PDFs

  Published 28 September 2019 Updated 25 May 2021

• The Time I Tried To Do An Acessibility Audit

  Published 26 September 2019 Updated 14 July 2021

• How To Not Get A Job After College

  Published 25 September 2019 Updated 29 September 2022

• What To Learn In My Next Years of Programming?

  Published 21 September 2019

• The One Thing #TeamCrispy Should Work On

  Published 20 September 2019 Updated 28 October 2019

• The 8.5”x11” Notecard

  Published 18 September 2019 Updated 7 January 2020

• The Time I Ran A Business In High School

  Published 17 September 2019 Updated 7 January 2020

• Looking Back On Five Years of Programming

  Published 16 September 2019 Updated 24 October 2022

• Tormented Soul by Matias Xavier— The Song Played Whenever A Zimbabwean National Hero Dies A.K.A The 'yeh yehi yei yei' Song

  Published 15 September 2019 Updated 28 October 2019

• My First Interview With Google

  Published 14 September 2019 Updated 28 October 2019

• Using iOS Shortcuts and JavaScript To Extract RSS Feed URLs From YouTube

  Published 28 July 2019 Updated 10 October 2022

• My Job Interview At Pivotal

  Published 29 June 2019 Updated 21 January 2020

• I Miss Jats: A Short Tribute to Brian Mujati, an Underrated YouTuber

  Published 18 March 2019 Updated 29 July 2021

• What I Did At My Job In The College Library

  Published 9 February 2019 Updated 28 October 2019

• Hello 2019!

  Published 31 January 2019 Updated 28 October 2019

• My Bachelor's of Arts in Computer Degree Revisited

  Published 22 December 2018 Updated 28 October 2019

• Why I Loved My Old Windows Phone

  Published 24 November 2018 Updated 23 August 2021

• DevLog #5 Fast, Cheap, Good. Pick 2

  Published 24 March 2018 Updated 24 May 2021

• DevLog #4

  Published 16 March 2018 Updated 24 May 2021

• My First Four DevLogs

  Published 5 March 2018 Updated 19 October 2020

• I Made My First Grep Command

  Published 2 March 2018 Updated 29 October 2019

• What I Read in 2017

  Published 20 February 2018 Updated 28 October 2019

• Dialogflow and A Bit of Node.js

  Published 16 February 2018 Updated 28 October 2019

• Things I Learned After Giving My First Tech Talk

  Published 16 February 2018 Updated 28 October 2019

• Farai Reads… The Hardware Hacker by Andrew “bunnie” Huang

  Published 9 September 2017 Updated 28 October 2019

• How I Used Python to Filter Data at My College's Library

  Published 18 June 2017 Updated 24 May 2021

• Farai Visited…The Royal Observatory Greenwich

  Published 3 June 2017 Updated 28 October 2019

• My Software Engineering Internship Interview At Goldman Sachs

  Published 21 February 2017 Updated 21 January 2020

• Math.floor(it): Now You Can See if Speeding Is Worth It

  Published 20 January 2017 Updated 28 October 2019

• Uncommon Hacks 2017

  Published 14 January 2017 Updated 15 February 2019

• The Value of Hard Stuff– Reflecting on The Dip by Seth Godin

  Published 3 April 2016 Updated 28 October 2019

• My First Tech Interview

  Published 27 February 2016

• Why Am I Bad At Learning?

  Published 7 February 2016 Updated 23 August 2021

• What's Wrong With This Blog?

  Published 30 January 2016 Updated 28 October 2019

• My First Hackathon

  Published 9 December 2015 Updated 28 October 2019

• console.log("Hello World")

  Published 11 September 2015 Updated 28 October 2019