Join us for two great talks about the Eleventy community and caching data with Eleventy Fetch.

• published Wednesday, May 10^th, 2023

Sad to be missing the wonderful in-person atmosphere of All Day Hey this year, but counting myself lucky that I can watch the talks online anyway!

• published Thursday, May 4^th, 2023

Dynamic Heading Borders

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

• published Monday, April 17^th, 2023

This month we have two presentations that promote joining the Indie Web by adding your social content to your 11ty site plus adding webmentions to like and comment across the web!

• published Tuesday, April 11^th, 2023

Tune in to hear Zach's State of Eleventy and learn what's new and changed for Eleventy v2! We're also pleased to welcome new speaker Lene Saile to explore considerations for organizing the config file.

• published Thursday, March 2^nd, 2023

WebC, a new HTML-driven file format from Eleventy’s creator, the venerable Zach Leatherman, has very much piqued my interest, so I’m really looking forward to hearing more about it, sinking my teeth in, and starting to use it myself!

• published Friday, September 30^th, 2022

Happy to announce that I’ve released version 1.0.0 of Eleventy Cache Webmentions! Although it introduces some breaking changes for earlier versions, 1.0.0 makes it a lot easier to attach Webmentions to your pages as data using eleventyComputed. Check out my…

• published Tuesday, September 13^th, 2022

Delighted to be once again organising and attending State of the Browser, this year being the tenth edition and taking place at the incredible Barbican Centre in London!

• published Tuesday, August 16^th, 2022

Just updated eleventy-cache-webmentions to version 0.2.0, a shallow first attempt at making the package work with any Webmention server, not just Webmention.io.

• published Tuesday, June 14^th, 2022

I’ve got a quick little nugget of CSS to share today, a selector containing all interactive content.

• published Tuesday, May 17^th, 2022

Happy to say the sparklines are going well—pushed an update yesterday, in fact, to allow them to inherit the color of wherever they are in the DOM for the colour of the line itself. Still working on posting a bit more!…

• published Sunday, May 15^th, 2022

This month we're excited to have Nick Taylor show us how he does automatic syndication using Eleventy and Dev.to as a CMS. Also Ben Myers is back to show how they cloned Wordle using 11ty and edge functions!

• published Wednesday, May 11^th, 2022

What a pleasure to attend in-person this year!

• published Monday, May 9^th, 2022

David East will show us how async shortcodes work and Sia will preview how all the pieces would fit together for a serverless e-commerce site.

• published Thursday, February 3^rd, 2022

Finding Purpose in CSS

I think you hit the nail on the head with this one. As I like to think CSS is my strongest language (the ego on this guy, honestly), your simile with the layout of a keyboard was spot on—layout, in particular,…

• published Friday, January 21^st, 2022

Fixed a bug in eleventy-cache-webmentions from a silly assumption I made about determining a since value to get new Webmentions when the cache exists.

• published Saturday, January 15^th, 2022

10000

It’s been nearly nine years since I last updated my website's logo, the ethereal Raven, but sixteen years since I began my journey into web development. To commemorate reaching a 5-bit milestone, this year seemed like a good one to…

• published Thursday, January 13^th, 2022
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This looks like an incredible line-up, and, completely predictably, I cannot wait!

• published Thursday, December 9^th, 2021

Thoroughly looking forward to attending this short meetup this evening to learn more about 11ty Serverless and the Data Cascade!

• published Wednesday, December 8^th, 2021

Fun stuff I’m proud of achieving on my website recently: finished building and released eleventy-cache-webmentions as a working and publicly-avaliable Eleventy plugin, which automates retrieving and sorting of Webmentions as well as being as kind as possible to the Webmention.io API automatic…

• published Sunday, December 5^th, 2021

Update: still not caught my own tail—I'll get back to that when I find my way out of these rabbit holes, and on that note, I bumped up to 1.708 commits/day as of today. Continue to do with that information what…

• published Monday, November 29^th, 2021

Finally figured out the problem with how I was caching Webmention avatars. One of those typos that got away for… maybe more than a year?…

• published Wednesday, November 24^th, 2021

After another year of hard work and planning, pleased to be putting on 2021’s edition of State of the Browser!

• published Saturday, October 30^th, 2021

Over the last couple of months I’ve made some small improvements and additions to 🐋 Bowhead, which is now at version 0.2.1. Since last posting about it, I’ve cleaned up the documentation, added some minor bits and pieces, and used…

• published Thursday, August 26^th, 2021

There are some talks I’m immensely looking forward to this year; though, I'm sure the entire show will knock my socks off again! 🧦💨

• published Wednesday, May 5^th, 2021

It’s nearly Christmas so what better way to celebrate than with two talks about RUM? Jonathan Fielding will be exploring how you can capture and analyse performance data from your visitors using services like Segment and BigQuery. Tim Vereeke will be digging…

• published Monday, December 7^th, 2020

Join us to close out the year with a truly global perspective on the ways that CSS is evolving

• published Sunday, November 29^th, 2020

Programmed in Pencil is a bi-monthly meetup that brings together engineers from across the tech industry to listen to talks on digital product engineering. Register quickly here!

• published Wednesday, October 28^th, 2020

11 min ⚡️ talks on 11ty, on 11/11 Register for free here!

• published Monday, October 26^th, 2020

I've been going through @wesbos’ JavaScript30 challenges, enjoying it a lot, and I completed challenge #17 today. Check out my log of completed challenges, follow along with RSS, or even join in if you’re interested!

• published Friday, October 23^rd, 2020

SAE invites our web lecturer Dominic Patmore to host a panel event with tech professionals on how we take down racism in tech. Register for free here!

• published Thursday, October 15^th, 2020

We’re back from our extended summer break with talks by two of our organisers, Simon and Andy… Simon will be talking about the psychology and physiology of speed, why slow sites are irritating and how that feeds into visitor behaviour and…

• published Monday, October 12^th, 2020

Uh oh, I’ve been found out… Ru totally sniped me with her call-out, in the best way possible! I guess I better double-down and make this a proper thing for myself—30 days, 30 JS challenges—let’s do this! I made a little Eleventy…

• published Wednesday, October 7^th, 2020

Jamstack conferences host speakers, workshops, and more for learning to design, develop, & deploy modern web projects. Join us online October 6–7, 2020. Register here!

• published Sunday, September 20^th, 2020

Discovered that I can make custom waveforms for use with my noisy sparklines. Swapped from the humble sine wave to a an "Ahh" sound—like I used to go crazy for on early MIDI keyboards!

• published Thursday, September 10^th, 2020

This time our speakers take us on a very human journey, an arc from the history of CSS to its new New, from the vector-sharp lines of modernity to the messy glory of experimentation and play Join us once more… in…

• published Monday, September 7^th, 2020

🚚 Bowhead is now at version 0.1.8, which adds a few things and fixes others, namely cleaning up what files are packaged for npm so as to send as little as necessary. If you're looking for a barebones SCSS solution for…

• published Monday, September 7^th, 2020

📦 Packaged up a bit of SCSS I’ve been happily using into a thing called Bowhead (it’s a whale, but I totally swear the filesize is tiny) and I’d love your feedback! https://chrisburnell.com/bowhead/

• published Wednesday, August 26^th, 2020

Eleventy is a go! Managed to migrate all of my content, pages, and a whole lot more. Article about the transition coming soon!

• published Thursday, August 6^th, 2020

An online meetup for people who work on the web, featuring talks by Andy Bell, Cassie Evans and more! What a hell of a line-up. Super excited for this evening! https://twitch.tv/webclerks

• published Wednesday, July 29^th, 2020

Thanks Keith. Aw, this makes me so sad. I hope that we at least get to see a flourishing and full-of-life Hyrule in the sequel. I loved exploring the broken and devastated world in BotW, but I do wish there…

• published Sunday, July 12^th, 2020

Nooo, what a terrible disappointment! BotW is one of my all-time favourite games and I've been stoked for the 2nd… Do you happen to have a link to the full news from Nintendo?

• published Sunday, July 12^th, 2020
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Finally made a solid start on my rebuild on Eleventy. Hoping to get all the content-y stuff finished up tomorrow, then time to think about redesign. 😬

• published Wednesday, June 10^th, 2020
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First time going and, as usual, immensely looking forward to it!

• published Wednesday, May 6^th, 2020

I've been using Odesli [https://odesli.co] (formerly Songlink) for a bit of time now, and although I haven't heard any feedback about it, provides links out to multiple platforms like I think you're looking for!

• published Tuesday, March 17^th, 2020

First time going and immensely looking forward to it!

• published Thursday, February 27^th, 2020

I must be in a bad mood this morning because @_iamarek told me, “you look like someone was using tabs” (instead of spaces) and I can't disagree

• published Tuesday, February 25^th, 2020

Shoutout to the good ol' days when @ForgottenMG, @pwiddop, @redsoniafb and I would get amazing Malaysian food for lunch as the Ninja Turtles :')

• published Friday, January 24^th, 2020
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Hey, thanks! That means a lot! 😄

• published Wednesday, January 15^th, 2020

Pig's Ear Beer Festival, third year going. As usual, couldn't be happier, but seriously missing @dletorey!

• published Friday, December 6^th, 2019
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🥖 Made some bomb-ass warm and fluffy breadsticks last night. They were far more amazing than my terrible photo of them, honest. 🗒 Recipe here: https://chrisburnell.com/recipe/breadsticks

• published Wednesday, November 27^th, 2019
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Excited for @halfstackconf today! First conference with @dletorey where neither of us are organising too.

• published Friday, November 22^nd, 2019
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@RealSnarkyPuppy at @RoyalAlbertHall last night. Unbelievable show!

• published Friday, November 15^th, 2019

Recently tucked away a bulk of the meta information about my posts behind a visibility-toggling button. Not sure it's the best solution for my meta-heavy posts, but cleans things up for now, at least.

• published Monday, October 28^th, 2019

That being said, I'm nearly positive you'll love it. Wes is a fantastic teacher and his enthusiasm is infectious!

• published Thursday, October 10^th, 2019

I'd consider myself a beginner; I found it very approachable, and it strengthened my core JS knowledge, making me more confident to explore more advanced topics. I think it's best to have some basic experience with JS, but that's it!…

• published Thursday, October 10^th, 2019

I very highly recommend @wesbos’ course, ES6 for Everyone: https://es6.io/

• published Thursday, October 10^th, 2019

I've been thinking about this ever since you posted it, and this realisation resonates really strongly with me. Coding is a means to an end for me now, rather than coding for its own sake, and hey, bonus I'm getting…

• published Wednesday, October 9^th, 2019

Interesting. Everyone who insists I should be more involved and interested in politics seems to have a very specific context they want me to get involved in. Almost like they have an agenda and what I think doesn't actually matter to…

• published Wednesday, September 25^th, 2019
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Really looking forward to IndieWebCamp Brighton 2019!

• published Wednesday, August 21^st, 2019
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Shout-out to @codefundio https://codefund.io for their fantastic service and above-and-beyond team. I cannot state strongly enough how kind and understanding they are—they get the highest possible recommendation from me!

• published Thursday, August 15^th, 2019
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Happy Canada Day! 🇨🇦 Hope it’s a good one, eh! 🍁

• published Monday, July 1^st, 2019
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It makes me so sad to see this tweet coming from this account.

• published Thursday, June 27^th, 2019

@​Anonymous Do you have any ideas how to present this metadata in a way such that information doesn’t get lost?

• published Monday, June 24^th, 2019

Bout time I show my face at Homebrew Website Club again, and, as usual, I cannot wait! Looking forward to seeing everyone again. 😄

• published Friday, June 21^st, 2019

@monosnap Figured I’d add to the heap of people reminding you that your subscription model is laughably bad and has lost all trust I ever had in your company.

• published Thursday, June 20^th, 2019

I think I'm going to try to make this happen. For a long time I have been building my site on a mostly vanilla Jekyll set-up as an example of a complex site that works on GitHub Pages, but I…

• published Wednesday, June 19^th, 2019

I would love to try switching my site from @jekyllrb onto @eleven_ty, but it looks like such a huge undertaking, as I have heavily customised the way I use Jekyll. Anyone got any pointers or quick changes I can make…

• published Monday, June 10^th, 2019
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So I decided today to remove trailing slashes from my URLs and forgot that it would affect the URLs of posts in my feeds. Apologies if I’ve bombarded you with old entries!

• published Monday, June 3^rd, 2019

Another 🐇 🕳 idea… Input a YouTube channel URL → The channel’s Atom feed is added to your Microsub "YouTube" channel. YouTube subscriptions without a Google account. No idea how original this idea is, but for now I’ve built https://chrisburnell.com/get-youtube-feed/

• published Friday, May 3^rd, 2019

Neil, this is both remarkably well-written and informative! I have to agree with all the points you’ve raised, particularly about the high barrier to entry for non-technical folks wanting to get on the Fediverse, but I think with posts like…

• published Thursday, May 2^nd, 2019

I definitely have improvements to make, but at present I use the Twitter API to create a tweet, and I pull the URL of the tweet from the response into the front-matter/YAML of the Jekyll post which I then commit…

• published Thursday, April 11^th, 2019

That's totally fair—I think development can and should be a joy wherever possible! I don't think that strict adherence to a standard trumps happiness—I think the opposite—but I do often wonder if there's a middle ground and how to get…

• published Wednesday, April 10^th, 2019

I still fail to see what benefits arise from shortened variable names. Why is "currPag" preferable to "currentPage", "btn" preferable to "button"? Without context, I'm guessing what the author intended, and this only makes verbal discussions about it all the…

• published Tuesday, April 9^th, 2019
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Up too late, again, working on my latest rabbit hole project. So close!… but got to sleep.

• published Friday, April 5^th, 2019

Really enjoyed reading this—looking forward to more!

• published Wednesday, April 3^rd, 2019
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Fantastic! That was quick! Thank you so much. 😊

• published Tuesday, April 2^nd, 2019

My username is chrisburnell

• published Tuesday, April 2^nd, 2019
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@untappd_support Who should I contact about my application for an API key? It’s been way more than 10 days, and I don’t think my application has been rejected, but I don’t know for sure…

• published Tuesday, April 2^nd, 2019
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If I ever get Untappd API access I would love to try writing some code to help people syndicate check-ins, toasts, comments, etc. back to their own websites. Another rabbit hole for another day.

• published Saturday, March 30^th, 2019
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Fantastic photo. Reminds me of this piece that I saw just over a month ago at the National Gallery Singapore MINIMALISM exhibition. https://www.minimalism.sg/

• published Sunday, March 17^th, 2019

I sit on both socks.

• published Tuesday, February 26^th, 2019

Lifelong Superpowers

A handful of my superpowers: I always sit on the second sock when I sit down to put on the first. I always check the time at 12:34. But what happens if my first superpower ever fails? Does my day shift enough to…

• published Tuesday, February 26^th, 2019
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I find the non-self-hosted version of @1Password really clean and easy to use on both my laptop and phone. Although it’s not free, I don’t mind paying a bit for the ease of use. I share it with family and…

• published Friday, February 22^nd, 2019
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I will be attending https://2019.indieweb.org/online My first IndieWebCamp! Can’t wait.

• published Monday, February 18^th, 2019
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Eight Years

Overjoyed to be celebrating the greatest milestone of my life today. Eight wonderful years with my best friend, girlfriend, partner in crime, and love of my life, Rachel. Stoked for the next byte!

• published Friday, February 8^th, 2019
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I’m going to the Indigenous & Micropub #hwclondon Special! 🎉 Are you? https://www.hwclondon.co.uk/meetups/20190227

• published Tuesday, January 29^th, 2019
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Works for me. Can’t wait!

• published Tuesday, January 29^th, 2019
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Late night coding means I’ve managed to create a clear division between my website’s various post types. And alongside that, I’m now using NewBase60 for my shortened URLs, which happens for each of my posts automatically. 😌

• published Sunday, January 13^th, 2019

I am indeed! Can't wait 😀

• published Saturday, December 22^nd, 2018

Indieweb: A New Hope 🚀 meets Return of the Chris 🙌… Can’t wait to attend HWC London again!

• published Saturday, December 22^nd, 2018

Switched my main browser from Chrome to Firefox this week. Can’t say I miss anything in particular. Only gripe so far is having to change my muscle memory for keyboard shortcuts, which I’m sure will be a quick transition.

• published Thursday, December 20^th, 2018
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Sadly, I won’t be able to attend, but if you’ve ever been curious about content ownership, IndieWeb, or new ways to tinker on your website, Homebrew Website Club London is unbelievably welcoming and inspired me a great deal. Highly recommended…

• published Tuesday, December 11^th, 2018
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I gave a lightning talk in 2016 about writing readable and maintainable code, and @DvBerzon is doing some fantastic research in this area that really intrigues me. I’m eagerly waiting for the next phase of research and results! http://howreadable.com/

• published Tuesday, December 11^th, 2018
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I un-linked my Facebook account from Spotify a little less than a month ago. So here’s my year of music #SpotifyWrapped ☹️

• published Thursday, December 6^th, 2018
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Super pleased to say that I just gave a short presentation about #indieweb to my team at work, and I didn’t butcher the explanation too badly, so everyone’s on-board! Feels great to be a part of this community and welcome…

• published Thursday, December 6^th, 2018
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Been looking forward to Pig’s Ear Beer Festival since last year. I'm in heaven.

• published Wednesday, December 5^th, 2018
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At long last, I’ve managed to add the ability to edit my existing notes through my Micropub endpoint, and given my track record of totally making no mistakes, this is a good thing. #indieweb

• published Tuesday, December 4^th, 2018
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Listened to Hardwired, a new EP by @mitch_murder, just about all weekend, and I can’t recommend it enough! Check it out if you’re into punchy 80s synths https://mitchmurder.bandcamp.com/album/hardwired

• published Monday, December 3^rd, 2018

That cuts deep. I don't even want to go there.

• published Thursday, November 29^th, 2018

I’ve made an average of 1.498 commits/day to my website over the last 5.5 years. ~670 of those commits contained fix in the commit message. Do with that information what you will while I continue to endlessly chase my own tail.

• published Thursday, November 29^th, 2018
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An excellent event I attended in Brighton with friends from work.

• published Friday, November 9^th, 2018

I’ve sat down with three developers this week to help them diagnose some errors, but as soon as I sat down the errors mysteriously vanished. Anyway, hit me up if you want a quote for me to come sit next…

• published Friday, November 2^nd, 2018
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Learned today that the price to renew a domain I’ve owned for several years has increased by ten times because it’s a premium domain. RIP nyer.audio.

• published Tuesday, October 9^th, 2018
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Happy Thanksgiving! 🍁

• published Monday, October 8^th, 2018
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Been waiting a while for this, and boy, does it ever deliver. https://open.spotify.com/album/2MdTsQBOs71AZuqETMyLY2

• published Thursday, October 4^th, 2018

Been keeping track of musical albums I’ve enjoyed recently at /music. Let me know if you have any recommendations I should check out!

• published Thursday, October 4^th, 2018

If this makes it onto Mastodon 👋, it means my Micropub endpoint is syndicating correctly!

• published Monday, October 1^st, 2018

On its own: 5/5. In the forest: 6/5.

• published Monday, October 1^st, 2018
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Living Deliberately

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that…

• published Monday, October 1^st, 2018
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DB5

Had the joy of visiting the Bond in Motion at @ldnfilmmuseum a few weeks ago and got to see this bad boy DB5 in all its (blue-tinted) splendor.

• published Thursday, September 13^th, 2018
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Couldn't be happier with how #SotB18 turned out this year. It was an honour and a pleasure to be involved in organising such an incredible event. Massive thanks to all of our speakers, attendees, sponsors, and supporters. We couldn't have…

• published Saturday, September 8^th, 2018
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Today at #hwclondon I’ll be attempting to enable my Micropub endpoint to accept JSON #indieweb

• published Wednesday, July 25^th, 2018
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Looking forward to this again!

• published Monday, July 2^nd, 2018

Happy Canada Day! 🇨🇦 Have a good one eh

• published Sunday, July 1^st, 2018
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If this makes it onto both Twitter and my website (PESOS for now), then it looks like my endpoint is working!

• published Friday, June 29^th, 2018
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Rolling my own Micropub server is proving immensely difficult. Way out of my depth. Feels good to learn, albeit slowly, though.

• published Thursday, June 21^st, 2018
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Mugged

Drinking coffee out of a sub-standard mug today because some mug has taken my mug!

• published Tuesday, June 19^th, 2018
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Added Jeremy Keith’s Canvas Sparklines to my site, to further visually demonstrate the vast spaces of time between my posts! Next step: create less vast spaces of time between my posts (read: publish more).

• published Tuesday, May 15^th, 2018
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I don’t think that’s a good idea.

• published Tuesday, May 1^st, 2018
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btn elem evt lnk tgl

• published Tuesday, April 17^th, 2018

At my first Homebrew Website Club meetup! Planning how to roll my own micropub endpoint... #hwclondon #indieweb

• published Wednesday, January 24^th, 2018
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Crispy Fried Noodles

• published Saturday, November 25^th, 2017
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Whoa. This ’97 beat tape from Kanye is incredible.

• published Sunday, November 19^th, 2017

Fresh keys.

• published Friday, November 10^th, 2017

Game night! 😊

• published Sunday, October 29^th, 2017

Every rose has its thorn. @CodePen just crashed on me for the first time in over a year. Still using it everyday though. 😄

• published Wednesday, October 25^th, 2017
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This is my first Note that I'm posting and syndicating automatically!

• published Wednesday, October 18^th, 2017

Anyone using IntersectionObserver seen intersectionRatio>1? I’ve been rounding this attribute, toFixed(n), to help keep things clean.

• published Sunday, October 15^th, 2017

"Why don't you smile more?" Thanks for asking!

• published Friday, September 22^nd, 2017