Mission Success 👨🏾🍳 🌱
👨🏾🍳 - Looking forward to seeing how this vegan turkey roast comes out.
📸 - Small list of favorites from this past weekend/mini vacation:
The END of Sony a6000 | Officially Discontinued by Jason Vong
“31.” 🎈
Vacation starts…now 😌
After seeing all of the reviews coming out for the M1 Macs, definitely leaning towards picking up an Air.
🎮 [PC] - Started Playing: Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War
🎵 - Black Thought - State Prisoner | A COLORS SHOW
🎵 - Currently Playing: japanese math rock to listen while strolling around in the cherry blossoms
Looking forward to taking these out in West Virginia next week.
A Few Favorites From Jacksonville Last Weekend
🎵 - Now Playing: Mick Jenkins - “Carefree” Black Boy
Hellooo Jacksonville 🛬👋🏾
🛫
Finally got some snow ❄️
Successfully added Netlify CMS to my personal site. ✨
Whenever I visit the 11ty.dev site, this big ol button for the docs always cracks me up.
Early exploration of getting 3 different product navigation bars in alignment along with some interactive states for the buttons featuring Baptiste.
🕹️ - Started Playing: Surviving the Aftermath
📖 - Started Reading: Offscreen Magazine: Issue 22
Starting off the New Year a little rough.
End of the year ramen with the crew 🍜
🔗 - Digital Ocean Spaces Custom Domain without Digital Ocean DNS
🕹️ - Started Playing: Pokémon Sword
Continuing work on a new side project and added a few game type identifiers for rivalry/playoff games as well as highlighting the winning team. Really enjoying @eleven_ty after working with it the last two days.
Dove head-first into playing with 11ty today for a new side project to house photo albums from this past season (and eventually future seasons). Definitely looking forward to iterating and improving on this.
See you in 2020 ✌🏾
Cooked miso soup + noodles tonight. Definitely want to tweak for future meals but this one came out pretty well 🍜
TFW you’re looking up vegan recipes but getting served Oscar Meyers bacon ads 😒
🎵 - Now Playing: Marcellus Juvann - The Great Escape
🕹️ - Started Playing: [GTFO (PC)](https://www.igdb.com/games/gtfo)
🕹️ - Started Playing: [GTFO (PC)](https://www.igdb.com/games/gtfo)
Midday doggo walks with the team
Project Wallace is coming up huge as I work through the CSS provided by a theme from our documentation site provider to have it better match our design system.
Video conversions 😤
AIGA DC Holiday Party 🎄
🕹️ - Started Playing: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (PC)
I think the Spotify team should’ve taken into account what the messaging should be when a “Top Artist” is deceased…
Being able to edit photos in Lightroom CC on the metro on the iPad has definitely made my commute much more tolerable over the past week.
I don’t recognize any small wins at work nearly enough, but today that changes:
- Today I launched a new event site for our annual conference. We have a second lined up that will also follow suit in the coming weeks. 🚀
🔗 - Opening Links in New Tab using Markdown
Was an extra chilly day today so I tried to emulate my moms “arroz con pollo”, featuring chicken seitan instead of chicken.
Not quite like how mom made it, but turned out pretty close 👍🏾
Took way longer than I expected but finally was able to transfer all of my content out of Notion.
Decided to make the jump to using the11” iPad Pro as my everyday carry, replacing the 2013 13” MBP docked behind it.
Finally going through photos from last weeks game and this sequence was the start of a string of unlucky breaks.
Wanted to try something new and treated myself to the latest version of the Raspberry Pi 🖥
🏈 - The boys unfortunately fell to South County tonight in the 2nd round of the playoffs. Im definitely looking forward to seeing what the Titans can do next year after the great run they had this past season.
🏈 - Not looking good for the boys tonight
Making progress on the header build and am pretty happy with how it’s turning out.
Birthday lunch with the team 🍣
Can’t think of a better way to celebrate turning 30 than:
- getting pho from my favorite spot
- having a quiet night at home
- disconnecting for the evening
Cheers to more nights like tonight. 🎉
🎵 - Vince Staples / 6lack / Mereba - Yo Love
Morning Fog
🔗 - The Line of Fire
Gun violence, high school football and what coaches are doing to keep their players safe
🕹 - Started Playing: State of Decay 2
Self-Care day with the crew
🏈 - The T.C. Williams Titans held on for a slim victory over West Springfield tonight.
Super excited to see these boys move onto the next round 🎉
😩😬
🏈 - Looking like a good night for the Virginia State Playoffs
Clean Slate
🔗 - Live Redesign
Really enjoying seeing Jonnie walk through each step of his website redesign.
🎵 - Now Playing: JPEGMAFIA - Free the Frail
Hello again 👋🏾
🎓 Winter 2019 Product Bootcamp Graduates 🎓
Hello Philadelphia!
Snow Day in Reston
Super impressed with the iPhone XS battery. I’ve had my phone off power since about 5:15 AM and there’s still 30% left.
Good first impressions after switching back from the original Pixel XL.
Shoutouts to Phil Stollery with this quick guide for addressing this bundler issue in Netlify.
Pre-game meal at Haikan before seeing “Into the Spider-verse”
🕹- Started Playing: Monster Hunter World (PC)
🕹- Started Playing: Stardew Valley.
Note to self: Take more time off.
Beach Buds
🎵 - Denzel Curry - Ta13oo has been on constant repeat since its release. I’ve really enjoyed seeing him grow as an artist and branch into some different sounds.
After spending the last 2 years or so almost exclusively designing in the browser, using Sketch outside of quick mockups or wireframes feels super sluggish.
New plant child to add to the family 🌵
New PC Build:
Sometimes, just starting over from the ground floor is refreshing.
Getting through “Going Offline” by Jeremy Keith (@adactio). Super excited to get service workers up and running on my site. 👨🏾💻
Tonight, I was able to get my jekyll powered portfolio site to build locally on my PC running Windows 10. Looking forward to testing out how the site handles switching from PC to OSX tomorrow. 👨💻
If Figma was able to get offline mode working, I’d be able to fully switch off Sketch. 🤔
Yucky day outside means spending time organizing files on my PC. Now if only Dropbox could move a bit quicker with this library transfer.
🎵- Now Playing:
Overwatch and pizza was a really good way to ring in 5 years together last night. Looking forward to what the next 5 have in store for us! 🙏🏾
Surprised at how simple it was to use feature queries to implement css grid in IE11 on several pages I’m building out at work. ⌨️
After 3 long seasons grinding through gold, finally made it to platinum in Overwatch. 🎮
It’s been a long while since I’ve written or shared anything on here. I think this month is a good time to change that.
🎵: Atmosphere - Gods Bathroom Floor
🔗 - Generate All Your Utility Classes with Sass Maps
As much as I’ve liked using VS Code almost exclusively for the last 6 months, its been refreshing to give the latest version of Sublime Text a try.
🎵 - Now Playing Felly - Seattle
Discord always finds a way to brighten my day any time they release a [www.youtube.com/watch](www.youtube.com/watch product update).
Updating my portfolio to use CSS grid has been a lot of fun over the last 2 weeks, hoping to share some progress shots soon 🤗
🎵 - Now Playing Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment
Post workout breakfast 👨🏾🍳
Only a month late with starting my New Years resolution but felt good to finally get back into the gym 💪🏾
Was recently gifted the Rotring 600 mechanical pencil by my gf and I think it’s hands down the best pencil I’ve ever used. 👌🏾
It’s always nice catching up with old co-workers 🍵
Now Playing: American Football - When The Summer Ends 🎵
I think I might start a series of mini-projects where I try to build some of my favorite UI’s (games, software, etc) from scratch. 🤔
Always get caught offguard every time this song comes up. 🎵
Hearing other players praise my play at Zenyatta in competitive Overwatch matches is definitely encouraging me to keep geting better with him and reminds me that it’s not everyone is super toxic. 🎮
Finally got around to building our 2nd bookshelf and loading up the rest of our books. 🛠
Making progress towards completing the CSS Grid course on Treehouse and it’s gotten me excited to experiment and work on new layouts for some upcoming projects.
Friday night is as good a time as any to start learning about CSS Grid.
New Baron Fig notebooks finally came in. Probably going to keep one at home for personal projects and the other for professional work. 🤔
Woah. 367k people are watching Overwatch League on Twitch right now 😮
It’s almost game time! Looking forward to the for the first season of Overwatch League 🕹
Have been super impressed with Aldi’s lineup of meatless vegan/vegetarian options. Can’t decide on if the meatless italian meatballs or the chicken patties are better 🤔
I think moving forward, this blog will serve as a little journal of sorts featuring thoughts/observations, things I’m enjoying in the moment and photographs.
Looking forward to seeing how this changes over time as I continue to make an effort to publish and share more.
Slowly figuring all this micro.blog stuff out 😅
All done! Was able to use Siteleaf as the CMS for my portfolio while hosting through Netlify. 🚀 marcusrelacion.com
Still grateful this YouTube channel has been brought to my attention. A+ work vibes: www.youtube.com/watch
On second thought, going to give Siteleaf another shot as I’m more comfortable with Jekyll. Hugo isn’t making much sense to me for right now.
Really enjoying this NPR Tiny Desk episode with Open Mike Eagle: www.npr.org/event/mus…
Little buddy at work held their own over the holiday vacation.
2018.
Converting my current Jekyll site to work with Netlify CMS has been a breeze so far.
