Declan Byrd's Personal Site: Articles

Content warning: pet death.

I'm not very good at writing about life events outside of my week notes.

Over the last 21 weeks I've been following a Garmin Coach 5km running plan in an attempt to run 5km in under 30 minutes.

In my 2024 to-do list post I noted that I wanted to be able to change the colour theme to something other than a dark or light theme.

When I first started playing basketball I didn't think about my footwear.

I first starting using Eleventy to build this site back in 2020 using version 0.10.0 and through a combination of the official documentation and other people's source code on GitHub, I managed to piece together the foundations for this site.

In my 2024 to-do list I noted that I never introduce myself on my own website.

What is this?

The 48th week of 2023, and the notes that I wrote for that week have provided a landmark moment.

I previously wrote about how I used VS code snippets in a markdown file to auto-fill some YAML frontmatter when I wanted to add some notes for a book I had finished reading.

The posts on my site are all written in Markdown and have some front matter at the top of each file.

With the announcement that mastodon.technology is being shut down, one of the comments I saw mentioned that it was disappointing that while you could migrate your account and followers to a new server, your posts were not transferred.

What exactly is it that I'm trying to share on the world wide web?

Some Background One feature I had been trying to add to my personal site for a long time has been to show my last played track from Spotify.

Today I learnt how to use Array.some().

While hosting content on my website allows me to own the content I post, it does not generate the exposure that community based blogging websites would.

When I first started learning web development at university, I was taught that a media query should be used to modify styles to target a specific screen size.

TLDR: I stumbled upon an invite only coding challenge created by Google to hire developers.