Josh Netherton

Things That Are New

It’s been a wonderful and crazy several weeks around here. I have a couple of new things in the works and one awesome one that was recently delivered.

Starting with the personal portion, my wife and I had our second child on March 17th (a St.Patrick’s Day baby, so I already fear what she’ll be doing for her birthdays years down the road). Her name is Penelope and she’s just awesome. Overall, we’re doing great and are more rested than we thought we’d be at this point. Though I hope I didn’t just jinx us. Here she is laying with her big sister, Ellie (Penelope’s on the left).

On the web front, I’m working on a couple of neat things. The first is a simple web app that should be fairly useful to parents of toddlers (I’ve already used a very early version and it’s helped me tremendously). I’m also using this project as a way to experiment with HTML5 local storage, so this will be a one-pager with no login. Look for an update on this in about a week. In the meantime, here are some of the hand-drawn icons for the app.

I’ve also started working on the rework of this site. The current blog setup was just a quick addition and I didn’t want it to stay up too long. I’m using the rework as my excuse to finally learn Expression Engine, so I’ve been diving into EE2 and really liking it so far. I’ll post some more on that once I have it in a state I’m starting to be happy with or when I can score a Dribbble invite, whichever happens first.