Code Samples

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My growing collection of code.

Rainier Atlantic Neighborhood

I designed and built this interface in 2003 as part of my graduate thesis in Urban Planning at the University of Washington. It is a JavaScript-based tool for comparing historical maps of a specific neighborhood in Seattle, to facilitate analysis of change in the landscape over time. I am currently in the process of expanding […]

Smart Dropcaps with JavaScript & jQuery

This is a simple but powerful (and fun) JavaScript+jQuery dropcaps solution. It uses a combination of js and css to render a drop cap at the start of the first child paragraph of a given div class (or id). The letter will span a specified number or rows precisely, and will resize according to font […]

Viewport Breakpoint Font Sizer

This is a Sass function I wrote to facilitate predictable viewport-based font sizes. I wrote it to accompany my conference session on viewport units.  It uses simple math to calculate what combination of settings would give us the font size we desire at a specific “threshold” breakpoint above which (and below which) we want the font size […]