Josh Vickerson's Blog

This is a recording of a talk I presented at the 11ty Meetup on February 4th, 2026.

I've become a huge fan of making interactions with my phone more intentional.

Over the past year, I’ve been working with 8BitJosh to create and maintain a website to showcase his YouTube video content.

A few months ago I relaunched my website, building on Eleventy to replace my use of AnchorCMS, a lightweight, open source, PHP-based CMS that has been out of active development for about 3 years.

An old-ish, but great read about Private Equity came across my social feed yesterday… Why Private Equity Should Not Exist by Matt Stoller.

I was inspired by a brief exchange of tweets today with Brandon McConnell about the idea of a "native function for fallback values" in CSS, who was commenting on a wide gamut color demo by @bramus which also demonstrated how custom properties can be used…

With any craft, high quality output takes time.

I’ve struggled with what I even want to say about this year.

Well, it’s been a hot minute since I’ve completed a review.

The Highlights After resuming dating again around Christmas time and things going really well for a couple months, Chelsea and I decided to give our relationship another shot so once again, I have a girlfriend.

Well… we all know what happened in March, but here’s some highlights about me.

For 2020 I decided to simplify the format of my reviews a little.

2019 turned out to be a tumultuous year.

The end of the year is always a packed time.

November brought a few notable events.

October was a pretty full month.

There’s not a whole lot to say about September, as it was pretty uneventful.

August marked a real embrace of summer.

Summer in New York has been pretty stellar.

June was a pretty exciting month!

I feel pretty good about May!

One of the first things a handful of people asked when they learned Tia and I split up is if I was staying in New York.

April has been a month of adjusting.

March was… a month.

The big highlight of February is that I went on vacation with Tia and her family to St.

January was a relatively mild month, which was a nice way to kick off the year.

“They ‘trust me’.

Well, 2018 sure was a year, wasn’t it?

December was a fast, fairly busy month full of seeing Tia’s family, holiday parties and a long stretch of time off – 11 days in a row without work, which was a nice end-of-year vacation.

November was pretty eventful.

October marked one full year since I moved to New York City, which is pretty wild.

September was highlighted by time spent with Tia’s family.

August felt pretty busy, with a lot of my free time being consumed with various plans, but with summer coming to a close that isn’t surprising.

This summer has been pretty packed.

Took me a while to get around to this this month, so it’s a bit brief, but here we go: Productivity Productivity is mostly flat, though a bit less consistent.

More consistent productivity, turning 25 and getting a new iPad are the April highlights.

Not a whole lot noteworthy happening in March, but a pretty good month overall.

Moved into an apartment, went on vacation, had my iPad stolen, filed my taxes, finished an online course… February was a hectic month, but I’m pretty satisfied with it.

I had a busy start to the year, apartment hunting, then preparing to move.

The story of 2017 is that it was not at all what I expected it would be.

A pretty good end to the year, I think.

November was a lot of fun.

It was a month of settling in.

At the end of last month’s review, I teased, “more to come in September,” with the intention of writing a separate post telling about what would be happening.

Less productive and not as active, but strong goal progress.

About a month ago, MacWorld published an article showing that Safari 11 is the fastest browser for the Mac.

July was my strongest month of the year, financially; enabled by refinancing my student loans and getting a raise at work.

This month I overspent, stuck to my workout routine pretty well, and was more productive than usual.

Took some time off from work to travel to Maine for my brother’s college graduation, which was much-needed.

Update 10/12/23: Due to the paywalling of the Twitter / X API, the bot described here no longer exists.