Robert Nealan is a San Francisco based nomadic designer + developer, the founder of Atomi Design & Designers Who Code.
This is actually a 2-3 week roundup as I didn't come across much to share until this past week. * An amazing tweet thread showing off retro 1980's "CGI" from movies that was actually done using physical models * The previous reminded me of this great ~10 minute documentary showing how one...
Credit to my colleague (and new office mate!) Dave Paola for the inspiration of the weekly roundup post format. Also, winter is here! * Senator Ron Wyden introduced a bill that would impose GDPR-like fines and even stricter prison sentences for data privacy violations. Don't see this passing with the current...
It'd been a few (happy) years since I last used Wordpress for a client project, but with its now (questionably-)stable REST API it came up last year as a potential candidate for backing a React-based magazine/news site. After doing some digging it became clear that it was not...
While working as a frontend developer means I get to experiment with new javascript frameworks on at least a yearly basis, it's far less frequent that I get to interact with new, native browser technologies, let alone ones that have wide enough support to be used in production. Thankfully Proton...
On any given day I probably have at least a dozen new ideas of what to build floating around in my head, but for one reason or another most come and go without much further thought. About a year ago now one of those ideas floated into my head, and...
Over the past several years the topic of the designer who codes has generated quite the lot of controversy within the tech community. Some camps believe designers shouldn't distract themselves with code and instead maintain their roots in graphic design as pixel-pushers, while others think that designers should be getting...
On June 3rd, 2016 my girlfriend and I left San Francisco for New York City, kicking off the start of a 6 1/2 month journey that would take us around the world until we return to California just before the Christmas holiday. While its all been extremely exciting, traveling...
After reading entirely too many articles and a lot of trial & error, I've written this guide on how to get HTTPS working on a DigitalOcean-powered, Nginx-backed Ghost blog using LetsEncrypt's free SSL certificates. For years people have argued whether it's worth setting up SSL on websites that have no inherent...
I still remember getting my first cell phone. The year was 1999 and my mom passed down her beater of a silver Sprint flip phone. For the time it was high tech, featuring an exterior notification screen, polyphonic ringtones, and a few games that would later look “totally lame” next...
It seemed like 2015 went by fast, but I've blinked twice and it's already almost the end of January halfway through February (okay I've really been procrastinating on this post). For years I've read “years in review” by others in the tech community, but never did one of my own...