It is said that Thomas Jefferson was such an inveterate tinker that Monticello was in a simultaneous state of being built while falling down.

Likewise this site.

Davidputney.com been in a continual state of repair and renovation since launch. (I’m sure you all noticed the new data-URI/local storage font loader.) My latest change, is a bit more public.

I swapped out the sans serif font Montserrat with another sans, Ginger. It’s a font I’d seen some time ago, but was reminded of it by one of my former colleagues.

Ginger and Montserrat are both geometric... More

I’m like a caveman finding a new shiny pebble.

There’s nothing wrong with the old shiny pebble I’d been enamored with seconds ago, it’s just that … It’s new! Look how shiny it is!

I’ve been experimenting with various methods of cutting this site’s load time, particularly through asynchronously loading blocking files like webfonts and scripts.

I’d been using the Adobe/Google asynchronous font loader, but Adam Beres-Deak’s method became my latest new shiny pebble. His script loader limits the font palette to WOFF and WOFF2 files which have been encoded as base-64... More