It’s been awhile since I shared what’s new with my coding life, so here’s a quick update.

In one online development course I took not too long ago, the instructor made BEM one of the focal points of the example project. I kept saying, “OMG, BRAD! ANOTHER CLASS?!” way too loudly a few times when he introduced it. Thankfully, an online student is like the proverbial tree that falls in the forest: Silent and dignified because there’s no one there to hear her. After a few sections, BEM grew on me. Thanks, Brad.

No tricks today, but if you need some ideas, take a look here.

Recently, I came across this article, which discusses the psychology of color to get your online visitors to do what you want them to do– whether that is to buy a product, use a service, register for a newsletter or email, download material, or fill out a form. Although much of the ideas presented are intuitive, I learned some things that surprised me.

Here’s a quick run-through of things I’ve delved into since last year. It’s nice to be able to put a checkmark next to a few items on a long list of things I want to learn.

If you’re from Boston like I am, New York City, Chicago, and many other cities in America, you’re Irish on St. Patrick’s Day and all that this implies. That being said, most people outside of Ireland don’t know much about this day except for the part about wearing green and drinking Guinness. Here are some surprising facts:

More than ever, our world is becoming more mathematical. The need to be proficient is not just about managing personal finances or solving puzzles anymore. In an increasingly mathematical world of computer logic and statistics necessary to shape important opinions regarding public policy, all should agree that studying math is important, but how do you study math? As a person who has worked in math-related fields, I get this question often. What follows outlines the basics of my answer.

I joined Codepen last October right before Halloween, and it changed my (developer) life.

I’m always bookmarking great articles, so I thought I’d share some of them here.

The other day I was reading a CSS-Tricks article on ordering CSS.