Made Mistakes is the personal site of Michael Rose.
I'm just another boring, tattooed, time traveling designer from Buffalo New York who enjoys eating chicken wings, sketching on an iPad Pro, building with static site generators, and playing Nintendo Switch.
Recent posts
Faster Netlify builds
Slowly but surely, I’ve been chipping away at my site’s build time on Netlify.
There’s little left for me to optimize until Jekyll drops some nice updates in version 4.0. I’ve cached the rendering of Liquid includes…
Autumn refresh
Featured articles
How I'm using Jekyll in 2017
Improving static comments with Jekyll & Staticman
Going static part 2: static comments
Mastering Pencil by FiftyThree
Mastering Paper for iOS: drawing portraits and faces
Mastering Paper for iOS: back to the basics
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Articles
Long form writing mostly about design and web development.
Notes
Thoughts, inspiration, mistakes, and other minutia you’d find in a blog.
Works
Hand-picked selection of things I've designed, illustrated, and developed.
Mastering Paper
Tutorials to help master the iOS drawing app— Paper
Contact
Preferred methods of sending questions, messages, and love letters to me.
Show your support
Give thanks for the free open source goodies I provide.
Frequently asked questions
There’s no such thing as a dumb question…
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Archive of all posts organized by topic.