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5.6.6 on 27 Jul 2022: improves consistency of colours site-wide; improves rendering of Donuts by masking—rather than overlaying—cut-out ring; improves legibility of article links; fixes a regression where Timeline event borders would overflow beyond bounds
5.6.5 yesterday: adds map to Contact menu; improves hobby project padding consistency on small displays; fixes regression that caused favicon to return a 404
5.6.4 on 18 Jul 2022: adds support for serving optimised assets based on device capability via srcset; improves rendering of images site-wide; fixes a regression causing polyline caps on Release Pulse to be clipped; drops hobby completion target
5.6.3 on 11 Jul 2022: improves appearance of images on small displays by allowing them to extend edge-to-edge; improves simplicity of responsiveness by reducing number of breakpoints
5.6.2 on 4 Jul 2022: improves discoverability of CV view; fixes a regression on image lazy-loading
5.6.1 on 30 Jun 2022: improves appearance of titles in Features component on small displays; improves products padding consistency on small displays
5.6 on 28 Jun 2022: adds Billboard component to Design posts; adds Platforms component to Design posts; adds image support to Features component; improves placeholder blur-up technique when lazy-loading images; improves email icon; improves and simplifies Timeline layout code by changing from Flexbox to Grid; improves legibility of linked Products; improves alignment of Menu dividers; fixes appearance of text on iOS when in landscape orientation; drops the ability to redact products
5.5.4 on 11 May 2022: fixes issue where some menu items were unavailable due to misaligned breakpoint queries
5.5.3 on 9 May 2022: adds new colour palette including swatches specifically for Dark Mode; adds a fourth colour stop to Release Pulse gradient
5.5.2 on 6 May 2022: fixes an anti-aliasing issue on Releases menu
5.5.1 on 28 Apr 2022: adds direct link to Releases view; improves spacing between Header and body on small displays; improves alignment of Releases menu with Releases view; fixes issue causing Releases menu to span full-width on some displays
5.5 on 25 Apr 2022: adds new favicon, touch icons, mask icon, and Open Graph rich preview; adds new navigation Menu; adds new Releases view; improves animation by using 3D transforms to force hardware acceleration; improves alignment of drop-downs relative to document; fixes issue causing polyline caps on Release Pulse to be clipped; fixes issue where some UI icons could be cropped or offset in Safari if the viewport width had an odd pixel value; fixes alignment of Timeline cells
5.4.3 on 21 Mar 2022: improves alignment of project grid items on Design and Hobby
5.4.2 on 16 Mar 2022: fixes an issue that broke Hobby stat calculation if the view was rerendered
5.4.1 on 7 Feb 2022: fixes regression on Increased Contrast accessibility preference conditioning; fixes regression on Reduced Motion accessibility preference conditioning
5.4 on 25 Jan 2022: adds bespoke image handling for improved UX, security, and performance; improves CLS score by allowing aspect-ratio to reserve space for replaced elements; restores cache control headers; restores X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options, and Referrer-Policy security headers; drops Gatsby image handling
5.3.9 on 13 Jan 2022: improves performance by using WebP for all image assets
5.3.8 on 21 Dec 2021: adds new navigation Menu and simplifies Header; improves appearance of Contact menu on small displays; improves appearance of titles on small displays; drops post tags feature
5.3.7 on 8 Nov 2021: adds completion value to Donut labels
5.3.6 on 1 Nov 2021: improves appearance of carousels on small screens by hiding redacted products; fixes issue where some assets were being inlined rather than sourced; drops pulse animation from latest release badge
5.3.5 on 27 Oct 2021: improves favicon, touch icons, mask icon, and Open Graph rich previews; improves shape of drop-down caret; improves appearance of drop-down contents on small displays
5.3.4 on 22 Oct 2021: fixes regression on alignment of Menu items
5.3.3 on 21 Oct 2021: improves appearance of Menu while handling picturemark
5.3.2 on 12 Oct 2021: adds support for Increased Contrast
5.3.1 on 11 Oct 2021: fixes regression on appearance of Donuts in Dark Mode
5.3 on 7 Oct 2021: adds support for assigning tags to posts; improves appearance of Post component; improves appearance of drop-downs in Dark Mode; improves download speed of images; fixes pixel-snapping on Design product carousel assets; fixes issue causing line-height of code to differ from body content
5.2.9 on 2 Aug 2021: adds ability for project carousels to wrap; fixes issue where Donut shadow would draw in the wrong direction; fixes issue with theme colour appearannce on iOS 15
5.2.8 on 9 Jul 2021: adds completion rate to Hobby view
5.2.7 on 5 Jul 2021: improves accuracy of hobby projections by calculating against latest snapshot instead of today
5.2.6 on 25 Jun 2021: improves performance and reduces file size site-wide

Product designer and UX developer.

👋 Hi, I'm Chris Sealey and I'm based in Queenstown, New Zealand. 51bits is the moniker for my design outfit, where I've been shipping small- and large-scale projects in the form of UI design and front-end web development for 16 years with discerning folks all over the world.

I've consulted to over 140 startups, agencies, entrepreneurs, and indie developers internationally, resulting in millions of people interacting with my work. My passions span health, technology, nature, and miniature painting. Currently, I lead product design at 🍷 WithWine.

💾First PC. Computers are fun.1995
Video games. Interaction. Art.1995
Macs. Photoshop. Animation. This is for me.2000
Right where it belongs.2005
🤑Invoice #1; $250 for a website.2007
📈20% rate bump; $300 for a website.2007
Gridlet, my first product. 1.4K fans. Vapourware.2008
🎓Graduate from Billy Blue.2009
♥️♠️Play poker. A lot.2010
WillyWeather. Small team; big thing.2011
🏅WillyWeather for iOS. #1 on the App Store.2011
👰Marry my best friend, Carmel.2012
Suki. We have a cat.2012
Ship Hubbub. Lesson learned.2012
Ship Stat. Lesson not learned.2012
Zibbet. Something different. Invest.2012
🏋️Learn about health. Obsess.2013
🙄Full-time again. Learn what not to do.2015
☕️Oh, coffee is meant to be black.2016
Extend but don't ship.2016
✈️Contracting again. Travel.2017
⚽Broken leg. Train hard. Back at it.2017
👩‍⚕️Do something that matters.2017
Ship Savings; my first Mac app.2017
🏅#1 on the App Store. Again.2017
Reset. Focus. Essentialism.2018
👶Hello, Jackson. Our family grows.2018
🏔️Move to Queenstown, NZ.2019
Co-found Fundamental.2019
🎲Dive back into an old hobby.2020
Study stoicism.2021
🍷Time to begin again.2022