I recently watched Iyad Rahwan's TED talk "What moral decisions should driverless cars make?" and I enjoyed his exploration of the moral dilemmas surrounding self driving cars.

I was particularly interested when he brought up the dilemma of purchasing a self-driving car that might choose to kill its own passengers:

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CSS frameworks are like box mix brownies. They're great if you're not picky and just want something fast. 30 minutes and a scoop of ice cream and everything's great.

As soon as the requirements change, you find yourself needing a new box mix, or a new framework.

Dave has a nut allergy, Sam's gluten free, and the only gluten free box of brownies has walnuts? Now what do you do?

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In 2016 I attended CSSConf and saw Keith Grant's presentation "Stop Thinking in Pixels". When I later redesigned my website, I took inspiration from some of the concepts that he covered. Of particular note—and what I want to dive into in this post—was his section about typographic scale.

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Angular Rules

I really wanted to call this post "Angular Rules" but it's not at all about AngularJS, and I generally dislike clickbait. Rather than mislead people on what this is about, let me make myself clear: This post is about styling horizontal rules to be angular such that they slope at a nice angle.

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For the last few months--wait it's been more than a few now--for the last six months I've had some ideas bouncing around my head, particularly relating to chatbots. Some of these ideas have led me to start working on implementing a chatbot (specifically for Slack, in node) in my spare time. At this point I have little more than an API wrapper, but I've also been learning to use some of the new ES6 features, so even without a working chatbot I'm happy with what I've accomplished so far.

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