Graham F. Scott: Blog

The Canadian government is trying to push through yet another intrusive digital mass surveillance law, this time Bill C-22.

A while ago I ran across a stack of old photos that I took at summer camp.

It wasn't my intent, but quite a few of these turned out to be about work, labour, and power.

After more than 10 years, it’s finally the end of the trail for my Salomon X-Ultra 5 hiking boots.

I recently switched my Eleventy site from Nunjucks to Vento for templating.

Only 13 total this year, although one of them was a biggie.

This week, 1,779 days after publishing the first version of the first plugin, Embed Everything earned its 100th GitHub star.

Last week, I finally deleted all my tweets[1].

The Environmental Registry of Ontario asked for comment on the province’s plot to kill Toronto’s bike lanes.

This year I focused on completing some book series, while tracing back the original influences for others.

The first reason I like this song is its ’70s throwback vibe.

Background I maintain an Eleventy plugin, Embed Everything, which aggregates a bunch of other plugins.

I leaned toward novels this year, while belatedly picking up some older non-fiction titles that had been on my to-read list for some time.

“Metropolis”, 2007, by Denyse Thomasos.

Front and back views of a volunteer T-shirt from ChangeCampTO, February 2010.

🚨 Update, December 2024 Eleventy Image 5.0+ offers a better method for achieving this same result.

Years ago I wrote a blog post on creating dark mode with CSS variables.

Not a terribly long list this year but I went back to pick up some previous reads that I'd tried and failed to get through, so I’ll take it.

March 2025 I recently discovered that the Shopify UX blog was shut down and its archives are no longer online.

From 2012 to 2018 I worked at Canadian Business magazine.

One year ago, I published my first Eleventy plugin (and my first npm package of any kind): eleventy-plugin-youtube-embed.

You’d think the waking nightmares of 2020 would prompt more escapist reading, but instead I zagged toward nonfiction.

I recently released an open source Eleventy plugin called Embed Everything.

March 2025 I recently discovered that the Shopify UX blog was shut down and its archives are no longer online.

I’ve been working on a project recently where we occasionally deal with some pretty gnarly rebases.

Recently at work I had the opportunity to work on Shopify App CLI, a command-line tool to accelerate the development process for developers building on Shopify’s platform.

February 2022: I finally got around to implementing this method for real.

Cron is the utility that allows you to schedule repetitive tasks on Unix-like systems.

February 2021: A few years ago I was involved in a digital theatre project called SpiderWebShow, which is still going today.

July 2022: I recently ran across this recording again and wanted to make sure it was saved in my archive.