Ruminations on Coding and Crafting

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Simple apps for complex emotions

Recently I made a couple apps with my friend Emily Theis based on podcasts by WNYC's Death, Sex and Money. This first one is breakupsurvival.…
a month ago Katie Broida Code

Exploring the dis/u/topia in our media landscape

I've been working on a fun JavaScript art project lately that I've been calling Youtopia. It's my interpretation of how someone living in the 80s…
3 months ago Katie Broida Code

"Restarting a Ghost blog in production" or "an exercise in rubber ducking"

[SPOILER ALERT] I figured out that the steps I describe in this post weren't necessary for my Ghost blog after all. So, I recommend holding…
a year ago Katie Broida Code

Creating a Zoom Indicator for Firefox

Don't be fooled by my previous posts, I didn't just work on Windows 10 bugs during my Firefox internship! I also created a button that…
2 years ago Katie Broida Mozilla, Code

It's over already?! A few thoughts at the end of my internship

I can't believe the summer has already ended! Seems like the old adage is true: time flies when you're debugging code. "I hope I…
2 years ago Katie Broida Mozilla, Code, Outreachy

Eureka! We sort of got it

Part 4 in a series on improving Firefox's Windows 10 start menu tile Maybe we didn't discover a fundamental law of the universe, but it's…
2 years ago Katie Broida Code, Mozilla, Windows10

Adding hidpi images to Firefox's Windows 10 start tile and a dead end

Part 3 in a series on improving Firefox's Windows 10 start menu tile After improving the Windows 10 start menu tile for at least some…
2 years ago Katie Broida Mozilla, Code, Windows10

Formating Firefox's VisualElementsManifest file

Part 2 in a series on improving Firefox's Windows 10 start menu tile Into the start menu rabbit hole ... Once I understood how to get…
2 years ago Katie Broida Code, Mozilla, Windows10

Copying files to Firefox's root install folder

Part 1 in a series on improving Firefox's Windows 10 start menu tile I've been working on a pretty challenging bug, and I thought I'd…
2 years ago Katie Broida Code, Mozilla, Windows10

Solving some Mercurial mysteries

[edit 7/12/16: This post goes through some pretty specific issues I had, but if you're looking for more general information on how Mercurial…
2 years ago Katie Broida Mozilla, Code, Version Control
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