The Darth Mall

There are so many mundane social problems with the technology here and now that don’t even remotely range into the territory of Skynet, Paperclip Maximizer/Grey Goo, Roko’s Basilisk or The Matrix.

I came across this talk a little while back with some great tips for Git (YouTube).

I am inspired by Chris over at uncountable thoughts writing about their experiments with RSS to publish some notes as RSS-only.

A few years back, back when I was rebuilding the Science On a Sphere website, I had the idea that you could use a static site generator (SSG) like Eleventy to write out PHP instead of HTML.

Typically, if you make lists, you probably make lists so that you don’t forget something.

Where I grew up, we were a 30 minute drive from anywhere except a gas station and an elementary school; and even those were 6 miles from my house along a road 5 lanes wide with no sidewalks.

How do we create a just, equitable society?

First and foremost let me state that this post is not about excluding people from the IndieWeb community.

For my photo gallery I decided to use the JPEG files as templates in Eleventy.

I think RSS1 is great, but I sometimes feel like it’s at odds with one of my favorite things about the web.

My friend Hollie invited me to play a game on Mastodon under the hashtag “#10Films”.

Dave Rupert wrote a post about how to handle being accessibility-shamed that’s been making the rounds.

One of my favorite uses of Web Components is as a container for HTML elements that helps manage some aspect of state.

Wildfires have been a going concern in Colorado for a long time.

I turned 40 yesterday.

Alex wrote about his productivity stream, which is something I’ve been thinking about for myself a lot lately.

The other day, a friend of mine mentioned that they thought they’d discovered a problem with the sorting machine at their local Post Office which might have explained why they had so much mail getting mis-delivered.

I just noticed that Jimbo Mathus recorded “Long Black Veil.”

I wrote previously about some changes I made to the design of this site; changes that made text that was previously invisible on the page, but still exposed to assistive technology, visible to everyone.

I just finished listening to the latest episode of The Joy of Why, Is There Math Beyond the Equals Sign?

If you’re at all involved in web development and concerned with accessibility, there’s a good chance you saw one or more articles recently debating the idea of adding a native way to visually hide elements in the DOM without removing them from the accessi…

Generative “artificial intelligence” (AI) seems to have replaced “crypto” and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) as the topic du jour.

Lately I’ve been feeling like my publishing workflow is interfering with my blogging, so I’ve been looking into flat-file content management systems like Kirby.

Lately I’ve been feeling that NPM has had a small negative impact on web development workflows.

I wonder how many people care about HTTP methods anymore.

File this under stuff nobody wants to hear about, but I’m going back to alphabetizing my CSS declarations.

Henry Desroches wrote about his decision to leave New York City and move back to Denver.

The other day, Andy Bell published a great post about how developer experience is a poor excuse for building shitty websites and it got me thinking, “What even is ‘developer experience’?

Robb Owen had a nice post about how his frontend development process is more like making a bowl from clay than it is assembling Lego bricks.

There’s a great bot on the fediverse: TMBG Lyrics.

Last year I started buying music again.

I have too many interests.

I signed up for bringback.blog.

For the first time in years, I had occasion to take my 27mm pancake lens off of my camera and use my 90mm.

Andy Bell wrote about how much he’s enjoying being on Mastodon.

The topic of content warnings — often abbreviated “CW” — has been coming up quite a lot over on the fediverse1.

My interest in Astro has been growing slowly, and it’s causing an absurd reaction in my brain: the more interested in Astro I become, the more guilt I begin to feel because it feels disloyal to Eleventy.

For the past couple of days we’ve been getting some much needed rain in Colorado — we’re getting quite a lot this morning.

We just finished watching Netflix’s adaptation of The Sandman.1 I absolutely adored it!

Recently, Chris Fedinandi wrote about the constructor pattern and when you might use it.

I think it’s hard to overstate the brilliance of Sir Terry Pratchett, although it may have been easy to miss because you were so busy laughing.

A few months ago I started bullet journaling after my brother mentioned that he’d been doing it and that it was working well for him.1 One reason bullet journalling was appealing to me was how it included task management as part of the practice.

Eleventy uses the debug package to log debug messages to the console.

In the grand tradition of web developers everywhere, I have redesigned my website.

For the last ten years, I’ve been using the same image for my phone’s lock screen / wallpaper.

When you’re working with Nunjucks (or Jinja2), you have two1 options for creating reusable bits of template: includes (I often refer to these as “partials”) and macros.

I don’t use Docker for my development environments as a matter of course, but I do sometimes find that it is useful.

Home page of the newly launched Science On a Sphere website Today we launched the new website for Science On a Sphere that I’ve been working on for the past year.

Programming isn't hard, it’s just extremely poorly explained and documented. — Heydon (@heydonworks) May 16, 2021 Nailed it.

I originally saw this on CSS Tricks. 🏠 They say an average person lives in 11 homes in their lifetime.