Chris Aldrich

@wynlim Your site is awesome. I love the design/simplicity, ideas, & writing. I'm seeing so many topics/collections I love including digital gardens, notes, IndieWeb, etc., and you're following so many people I know and read myself. Such a small world.

@anomalily You definitely don't want to miss that 11:59pm taco data point! But I know there's dozens of hours of data crunching and a few dozen more hours of design work. We'll certainly have patience well into March if necessary... ;)

@kevinmarks @benwerd Source evaluation is harder now for web as design is subjective and unevenly applied on the internet.

@Pitanity @nursingdean Biomedical Engineering (BME) is better thought of an addition layer of biology, chemistry, physiology, medicine, etc. on top of the "traditional" disciplines. (Or in your case nursing as well.) So which of the traditional areas are you most interested in? Then with some foundational work in that you can layer on your health care training.

As an example, I started out in electrical engineering, then subspecialized in signal processing and imaging which led me into MRI and CT which I further sub-specialized into cardiac imaging.

The question you'll need to figure out is which traditional branch of engineering you're going to layer your nursing training onto as a substrate? With a nursing degree you've got most of the biomed portion of a curriculum under your belt, now you just need to add the (traditional) engineering portion.

I don't know your other interests/background, so I might suggest industrial engineering as being a very fruitful area combined with nursing (especially if you're interested in research.) I can also see some applications of network theory (within computer science/electrical engineering and industrial engineering) being interesting -- think about the patient with a network of specialized careworkers, friends, family around them and how can one optimize that network to improve healthcare outcomes...

To help focus your search, take a look at "BME Focus Areas Course Lists" at http://www.bme.jhu.edu/undergraduate/resources. Browsing through course offerings from BME programs will also help you narrow down your interests to figure out the best path.

Also: Do you want to do basic research? Teach? Design/Build/Manufacture products? Work with patients? Patient-based research medicine? These will help you narrow down which programs/degrees you may need professionally as the individual tracks have different requirements.

@jdconnor #Selffulfillingprophesy? https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/05/09/the-hottest-trend-in-web-design-is-intentionally-ugly-unusable-sites/

I'm certainly not defending the practice. I don't like repeated pull quotes either, and prefer to use highlight quotes that supplement the text without repeating myself (and I use a CSS class called pullquote to do so.)

I suspect that in an era where TL;DR is the norm (has anyone thought about naming this "Generation TLDR"?) they're mostly used to get 1% of the audience to read something more than the headline and see the featured photo before retweeting or posting to Facebook. Unfortunately, we're apparently part of the 0.001% that bothers to read through an entire post anymore, so we're the only ones to notice the UX problem.

Maybe being able to embed a pull quote in a title would help fix the issue?!

I think that for many, the advent of responsive design has done great things, but things like this fall through the cracks in the process. It would be nice if mobile displays would automatically redact CSS classes that are used in this manner as part of their workflow. I find the logic about as smart as including bulky javascript widgets for sharing articles to Facebook, Twitter, et al on mobile when almost all users will use the built-in mobile sharing ability instead.

Maybe the new AMP spec can help publishers to automatically remove these repetitive type of pull quotes for the next generation?

I like that Indie Auth at the bottom of the top page; It reminds me of a keyhole, which could be an interesting design element given the function; perhaps a second color below it to finish out the keyhole portion but still keeping the "i" and the "A"?