After I watched some creative videos on YouTube of hand design masks, I decided to try my own. Now, I’d like to share some tips and tricks, some basic steps, and the pattern I created. About masks in general We will need to have masks at the ready for the foreseeable future. So I’d…

We’d like to register our support of better wages & benefits for VCA tech & support workers. We rely on VCA for specialist & emergency care, to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars over the years. Six of our rescue animals have been treated at VCA SF Pet…

If you could pick any healthcare, what would it look like? (Sharing some infographics & asking for case studies.) We’ve been told that we love our private healthcare. We’ve been told that we’d be way better off without private industry. I had heard that Australia, unlike Canada, has a private…

Living in a representative democracy, we still have to get it done. (And, damn, Comey’s wrong/right again.) If a major piece of legislation or a SCOTUS decision gets a lot of media coverage, I get the same feeling as putting on a sweater that I shrunk a bit in the…

Adding HammerJS to Angular 6 — right? we’re at 6? Draft notes: I needed to implement a HammerJS solution (without Material) in Angular 6 and there’s not a consolidated article of how to implement an event plugin, so I thought I’d share how I did it. …

I ride my bike to work along Mission Bay, around the The Ramp and onto the San Francisco Bay Trail. Just past Mission Rock Resort, Leo parks his bike with it’s dog trailer at a picnic table, sets out his dogs’ beds, and they rest in the morning sun together…

A CSS pro cascades styles — and ideas and people. Here’s a list to help. Working on a team isn’t everyone, all at once, diving in together, communitas programming. Often times, it’s serial: first an architect designs a solution, a sole contributor might make the big technical decisions, someone else…

What does it take to be an informed activist? Calling all librarians, researchers, and sub-subs! Fake news is our problem. We create it, innocently, by accident. Journalist simplify information in order to make it more consumable. Citizens share stale old moldy articles before double checking the source — what is…

I remember “Tom’s” first day at work. Not because of something he did, but because of how I felt. Tom’s church had been flooding money into the hetero-religious agenda in California. Millions of dollars were going to make sure I couldn’t marry my wife, and if I did, we would…