Moose Country

Photo of a greyed, dead tree, toppled over, lying partially-exposed in a small pond/bog, which is dotted with waterlillies and their pad-like leaves. Surrounding the pond is the characteristic dense carpet of forest undergrowth that can be found across Atlantic Canada, interspersed chiefly with small coniferous trees, which can also be seen in greater size and number in the background, beyond a field of undergrowth. — We can’t stop here — this is moose country!

I took this photo at the Bog along the Cabot Trail in Cape Breton Highlands National Park. This is the 1,000th post on my website!

published Monday, August 21^st, 2023

Yahaha! in Halifax

A Korok, resembling a small, living tree with arms, legs, and a smiling face from the video game Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, stands (superimposed) atop an intricate structure made of small stones, polished into cubes and organised in a tight and symmetrical way. In reference to the video game, where the player can find and replace missing pieces of these structures, and upon doing so, a Korok will appear to congratulate the player, exclaiming, “Yahah! You found me!”, which is displayed in a dialogue box below the Korok.

Gotta stay alert outside the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia.

published Friday, August 18^th, 2023
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Happy Canada Day! 🇨🇦 Have a good one, eh?

published Saturday, July 1^st, 2023

Double-Double

A pixel-art image of a 1990’s-era cup of Tim Horton’s coffee

Today I’m introducing a little dash of CSS syntactic sugar I’ve been using a lot when building components recently that I’m calling the Double-Double technique.

published Monday, June 12^th, 2023
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Not without sacrifice

With the boom of JavaScript frameworks and legends-come-true like the new CSS parent selector, we’ve borne witness to an explosion of new technologies and ways to build for the web. But what tradeoffs have we made for all these new bells and whistles?

Dynamic Heading Borders

three headings in succession, the second and third containing more words than their previous, accompanied by a thin border under the text, its inline size equal to the inline size of the text plus some arbitrary amount

I found a useful trick for achieving the long-standing design of Level 2 Headings across my website.

published Monday, April 17^th, 2023

CSS Naked Day JavaScript Function

Rather than remove CSS from my website manually on CSS Naked Day, I have employed a short JavaScript function to perform the check for me.

updated Wednesday, April 19^th, 2023
published Monday, April 17^th, 2023

Why I participated in CSS Naked Day

CSS Naked Day has come and gone for this year, but I’ll be making it a point to participate for many years to come.

published Friday, April 14^th, 2023

Generating Automatic ShortURLs with NewBase60

I’m still auto-generating ShortURLs for each of my posts using Tantek Çelik’s NewBase60, but in a much more organised fashion and leaning into the JavaScript-based ecosystem of Eleventy.

published Sunday, March 26^th, 2023

Copilot me if you can

A short tale about how GitHub Copilot generated some “real” data about my website.

published Wednesday, December 7^th, 2022
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