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My fondness for typing with JSDoc grows unabated, but/and I occasionally get jammed up and have to pull over to figure out how to get unstuck.

I’ve been using the recently revamped Reeder on iOS, and after just a few weeks it feels pretty darned close to my ideal way of reading feeds.

Frankie (“Franklin” for short) turns six today, or thereabouts, making her second-oldest in the house now.

I love, love, love to walk, especially when I’m stuck on a problem.

One of my very favorite things is noticing small changes in my friends as we age.

WWDC starts tomorrow, which means I feel compelled to do this thing where I imagine what the “average” executive at Apple might look like.

I was noodling around on my computer the other weekend and thinking about CSS Grid, as one does.

Our gal Frankie turns five today, give or take.

If you’re already familiar with JSDoc and just want to see how to import type definitions, you can skip the backstory and jump down to the recipe 🧑‍🍳 I’m a big, big fan of using JSDoc docblocks to annotate JavaScript, primarily functions and class methods.

While I was working on robots.txt file automation, I found myself repeating a very familiar pattern: writing an Eleventy global data file with boilerplate logic for fetching remote data and exporting the response directly.

“Greetings from Oregon!”

I have a handful of Eleventy-based sites I actively fuss over, and every now and then I need to update some bit of metatdata or other that they all have in common.

If you’d asked me on Monday how much thought I give to saxophones, I’d have said I love a song with a sax but that’s about it.

Once upon a time — way back in, like, 2004 or something — I used to turn my nose up at sites that served an RSS feed with only an excerpt.

Terminal Escape is an escape room puzzle by Ryan Kubik with all the trappings of the command-line: ----- [CUSTOM User Greeting] ----- This SERVER is super 1337 and SECURE.

You know when someone shares a good link, and they take an extra beat and a few more characters — “via @doctormittens,” it usually goes — to shout out where they came across it originally?

Inspired by Mu-An Chiou’s <open-heart> component, I’ve been building a little fave button as an HTML web component and I backed into a simple pattern I quite like: using custom-element attributes to both store state and drive lightweight reactivity.

I was working through my pile of unreads in Feedbin this morning, like you do, and Trys Mudford’s feed was lit up with “A quick guide to destructuring”.

Oisín Prendiville — who you might know as one half of the late-great Supertop, creators of Castro — has an adventurous spirit I find deeply admirable, and has been on a long-distance trip since April: Trying to cycle from Vancouver to Ireland with the help

A couple of months ago I released version 0.2.0 of my classnames plugin for Eleventy, a port of the popular package by JedWatson.

A fun project by Max Siedentopf: “Passport Photos” looks at one of the most mundane and unexciting types of photography.

(I’m writing this as I wait for some automated tests to pass — I’ve had to re-run them three times so far because the test runner fails intermittently in a way that’s just part of its personality, or something.

I frequently switch machines while I’m in the middle of work that I’m not quite ready to commit.

It’s a widely held belief in indie web circles — it’s the indie web belief, I suppose — that we should own our content.

Three-and-a-half years after we moved back to Denver, and three very hectic weeks after putting it up for sale, we just handed over the keys and closed on our favorite little house.

A couple of years ago, I was on another tezeta kick and wanted to learn more about the genre beyond the handful of songs I knew.

If you’re like me, you’re constantly moving where DevTools is docked — on the bottom, then to the right, then back to the bottom again.

WWDC kicks off today, which means it’s that time of year when I imagine what the “average” executive at Apple might look like.

We got Frankie over a long weekend in May 2019, when she was a little razor-mouthed cream puff.

Hector is a cumulonimbus thundercloud cluster that forms regularly nearly every afternoon on the Tiwi Islands in the Northern Territory of Australia, from approximately September to March each year.

I was poking around Dave Rupert’s site a few weeks ago (like you do 💁) and ran across his /likes page: My favorite RSS reader, FeedBin, graciously spits out a reverse chronological list of articles I’ve faved.

As I wrote last year, neighborhood walks during the pandemic kicked off my fascination with stamps and plaques found in sidewalks.

Kottke linked to a pretty grim article on all the ways cryonics have gone horribly wrong.

James Ball’s Guide To Computing is a jaw-dropping photo series of vintage computers: His delightful images present every dial, button and screen in exquisite detail.

Sneaking in a quick reflection of my year on the last possible day.

The admins of my Mastodon instance, front-end.social, have done a terrific job of encouraging good alt-text habits by using some custom CSS to apply badges to every user-posted image.

Mandy Brown, in a lovely piece about trees (and people): And we must remind ourselves that growth occurs in intervals: there are times of growth, and there are times of non-growth.

This post assumes familiarity with Eleventy, a static-site generator.

Speaking of lettering, walking around our first night in Donostia-San Sebastián I noticed a typeface I’d never seen before: I don’t have much of a typographic vocabulary, but to my untrained eye the weight gives it a serious presence, but the flared serifs

Pooja Saxena’s India Street Lettering is a lovely ongoing series capturing lettering and signage in cities around India.

Ask almost any nerd my age about AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), and I’d bet you $8 they have a whole medley of memories about “away messages,” the ephemeral statuses you’d set when you were online but (ostensibly) away from the computer.

My pal Neven changed my life a few years back, and I’d like to do the same for you: Hi, good day to you.

If you’re like me, Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter feels like a good sign it’s finally time to peel away and do something different.

I’m a big fan of using Nunjucks macros to build pre-rendered components in Eleventy projects.

Around the start of the pandemic, I started snapping photos of the sidewalks in our neighborhood — specifically, the imprints and seals left by the people who poured them.

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I’m really fascinated by this version of LOW←TECH MAGAZINE: This website runs on a solar powered server located in Barcelona, and will go off-line during longer periods of bad weather.

Michele Catalano, on the mixtape of yore: It was about so much more than grouping some tunes together.

Tomohiro Okazaki has a long running series of eye-popping stop-motion animations using three simple ingredients: a matchstick, some paper, and a magic red dot.