zacharyc

I was working on setting up a favicon for this site. You can see it here: The process was simple. I created a mock in Sketch using the Futura Font for the “Z”. I then brought the image into Icon Composer, and exported it as an ICO. I modified the functions.php for the theme to include a function for rendering the link tag in the wp_head, and that should be it. It’s not appearing for me yet, but I assuming it’s a cache issue for now. ...

On Christmas Eve last year I made a new close friend. She asked me if I wanted to train and do a Triathlon in May. This past weekend was that Triathlon. On Friday, my creative drive was very focused on the triathlon. Here was a sketch I made:

One of my very good friends successfully defended her PhD yesterday in mechanical engineering (really astrophysics, but they called it mechanical engineering). The only think I could think of all day was a logo. She made the mistake of saying that I could call her Dr. anything once she graduated. Her new nickname from me is Dr. McHotPants. Here was the logo I drew for her: ...

I’ve been working on a new footer for this site. For a while I’ve wanted a fat footer with more information. Today, you’ll see, I have one. It still needs a lot of work, but at least it’s there. Areas for improvement: Remove the stupid 1px border Put in some social media icons

The other week we decided to send out a mass email to our cheerleading team in order to get information from each cheerleader. The problem was that we didn’t want to send sizing data about other cheerleaders. This meant a custom written emails for each cheerleader. We had an excel spreadsheet, I exported it to CSV and then wrote a ruby parser to generate custom email files for each cheerleader. ...