Levi McGranahan

In 2001, my band Canterbury Effect released a record called An Exercise in Humility.

We went with our friends Alan and Bridget on a quick 24-hour road trip to see one of my favorite bands when I was in college, Hot Water Music.

I've been overweight most of my life.

Update!

I never knew there was an official term for the language phenomenon where people substitute words in common phrases because they don't know the real words.

I keep this note in my Obsidian vault called Things I can't remember anymore.

I built a Web Component that adds native copy to clipboard and sharing controls to a web page.

I started a Git repo eight or nine years ago to store all of the recipes I use regularly.

I started playing in a new band on a fairly regular basis this year.

It's been a heck of a few weeks around here.

Is there a way to bequeath your ownership of a collection of digital stuff?

I wrote a post a while back toying with the idea of migrating my personal site from Eleventy to a new platform with more built-in content management features.

As I've grown older it's become a lot easier for me to tell when I'm in desperate need of a break.

Back in early 2022 I decided to start being a bit more intentional about the way I capture and keep track of my notes.

I started growing a garden in my back yard two years ago in the spring of 2021.

We are in the process of redrawing all of the source artwork for our design system's icon set at work, and he other day we came up against some issues with Figma's default SVG exports.

I remember years ago reading this article by Marcin Wichary about how they created custom link underlines at Medium using a lot of CSS trickery.

There have been a handful of times in the last few months when I was able to pinpoint some past event in my life based on when I wrote something completely unrelated down in a blog post or notebook.

I would like to start writing a monthly check-in post that I can aggregate into a feed for a new now page.

The recent and unexpectedly fast implosion of Twitter made me realize that it's just not a place that I want to spend much more of my time.

I've been running my site on static site generators (SSG) for a little over eight years now.

My friend text me a link the other day to some music they thought I should check out.

The WebC plugin brings a component model similar to frameworks like Vue and Svelte to Eleventy.

I Gave my old bass a makeover today—a quick list of what I upgraded.

I've found myself needing to do this on a couple of projects lately so it seemed like a good idea to write it down here as a snippet to reference later.

It can take a while to realize the path you were on was the right one at the wrong time.

I'm glad the weather is finally starting to turn and it really feels like Spring.

I’m consistently inspired by the work of Corita Kent.

I read this article by Dan Mall last week that really nails why it's important to not dwell in the creation phase of a project because it's easier to revise and improve once you get the initial ideas on paper.

We traveled last week for first time this year.

I turn 40 tomorrow and pandemic life continues.

There are several ways to hide content using CSS.

I watched this mini documentary about a French butter maker the other day that makes high-end butter with old techniques that very few places use anymore.

It's that time of year again, so I thought I'd do a quick post on the simple bit of JavaScript I use to keep the copyright date current in the static sites I build.

The urge to create can feel like a struggle sometimes.

I’m not religious, but when I looked out my front window yesterday morning at the church across the street from my house I felt my heart sink a little when I saw a completely empty parking lot.

One of the things that interests me about Web Components is that they make it possible to build components that can be progressively enhanced.

I maintain a lightweight JavaScript theme switcher library called Themur.

I was looking through Microsoft's design system Fabric the other day and came across an interesting component in the Utilities section called FocusTrapZone.

I saw James Victore (I'm pretty sure it was him) speak at a conference a long time ago where he talked about sharpening the saw.

I made this shitty stool in design school.

We brought home a new family member last night—Rocky.

I used the last few pages of my most recent notebook to write down all the stuff I want to do this year.

It's almost 4pm on the last day of 2018 and after reading so many wonderful end-of-year wrap up posts and top three accomplishments tweets I'm motivated enough to at least record some of my thoughts about this past year, even if it's just for me.

When I write CSS I generally favor clarity over brevity when choosing the way I name classes/components.

We lost our dog Bowie earlier this year.

I've been the lead on a design system project that serves dozens of development teams across a fairly large organization for a little over a year now.

My partner and I bought a house this summer in the town where we've lived and worked for the past five years.

I've been feeling a lot of the tell-tale signs of burnout.

Our dog Bowie passed unexpectedly on Thursday, February 1 2018.