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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I saw "You Can Create Private Properties in JS (Accessor Pattern)" by Kirill Shestakov in my twitter feed, and I was hopeful that someone else had articulated the thoughts that I'd had mulling around in my head recently about new ES2015 features. Particularly about how you can use those features to encapsulate data.

Unfortunately after having read the post, I realized I still needed to articulate my thoughts on the matter, particularly around private variables and what "private" actually means.

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