✅ went to Ep. 11: WebC with Zach on October 6, 2022 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 30th, 2022 note
in reply to eleventy-cache-webmentions 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 13th, 2022 note
✅ went to State of the Browser 10 on October 22, 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 16th, 2022 note
in reply to eleventy-cache-webmentions 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 14th, 2022 note
I’ve got a quick little nugget of CSS to share today, a selector containing all interactive content. published Tuesday, May 17th, 2022 note
in reply to a previous note 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 15th, 2022 note
✅ went to 11ty Meetup Ep. 9: Automatic syndication and Wordle on the edge on May 26, 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 11th, 2022 note
✅ went to All Day Hey! 2022 on May 5, 2022 What a pleasure to attend in-person this year! published Monday, May 9th, 2022 note
✅ went to 11ty Meetup Ep. 6: Async Shortcodes and Serverless E-commerce on February 10, 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 3rd, 2022 note
in reply to Writing CSS with Purpose by Binyamin Green 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 21st, 2022 note
in reply to eleventy-cache-webmentions 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 15th, 2022 note
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 13th, 2022 3 responses to 10000 note
✅ went to Holiday Snowtacular on December 17, 2021 This looks like an incredible line-up, and, completely predictably, I cannot wait! published Thursday, December 9th, 2021 note
✅ went to Ep. 5: 11ty Serverless Search and the Data Cascade on December 8, 2021 Thoroughly looking forward to attending this short meetup this evening to learn more about 11ty Serverless and the Data Cascade! published Wednesday, December 8th, 2021 note
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 5th, 2021 note
in reply to a previous note 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 29th, 2021 note
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 24th, 2021 note
✅ went to State of the Browser 2021 on October 30, 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 30th, 2021 note
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 26th, 2021 note
✅ went to All Day Hey! Live 2021 on May 6, 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 5th, 2021 note
✅ went to Yo Ho Ho! ‘Tis the season for some RUM on December 8, 2020 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 7th, 2020 note
✅ went to London CSS Holidays on Ice on December 10, 2020 Join us to close out the year with a truly global perspective on the ways that CSS is evolving published Sunday, November 29th, 2020 note
✅ went to Programmed in Pencil October 2020 on October 28, 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 28th, 2020 note
✅ went to Jamstack Toronto: 11ties on November 11, 2020 11 min ⚡️ talks on 11ty, on 11/11 Register for free here! published Monday, October 26th, 2020 note
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 23rd, 2020 note
✅ went to SAE Extra: Anti-racism, one line of code at a time on November 11, 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 15th, 2020 note
✅ went to London Web Performance October on October 13, 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 12th, 2020 note
in reply to JavaScript30 Day #02 - Wes Bos’ JavaScript30 course, grouping operator, HOCs in ReactJS. by Ru Singh 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 7th, 2020 note
✅ went to Jamstack Conf Virtual 2020 on October 6, 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 20th, 2020 note
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 10th, 2020 note
✅ went to London CSS Endless Summer on September 10, 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 7th, 2020 note
🚚 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 7th, 2020 note
📦 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 26th, 2020 note
in reply to a previous note 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 6th, 2020 note
✅ went to #ViennaCalling on July 29, 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 29th, 2020 note
in reply to Keith J Grant 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 12th, 2020 note
in reply to Keith J Grant 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 12th, 2020 1 response to note
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 10th, 2020 1 response to note
✅ went to All Day Hey! Live 2020 on May 7, 2020 First time going and, as usual, immensely looking forward to it! published Wednesday, May 6th, 2020 note
in reply to Playing music on the web by Neil Mather 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 17th, 2020 note
✅ went to London CSS March 2020 on March 12, 2020 First time going and immensely looking forward to it! published Thursday, February 27th, 2020 note
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 25th, 2020 note
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 24th, 2020 1 response to note
in reply to https://www.mathewpacker.com/2020/01/2020-01-04-21-49-44/ Hey, thanks! That means a lot! 😄 published Wednesday, January 15th, 2020 note
Pig's Ear Beer Festival, third year going. As usual, couldn't be happier, but seriously missing @dletorey! published Friday, December 6th, 2019 2 responses to note
🥖 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 27th, 2019 2 responses to note
✅ went to HalfStack London Conference 2019 on November 22, 2019 Excited for @halfstackconf today! First conference with @dletorey where neither of us are organising too. published Friday, November 22nd, 2019 1 response to note
@RealSnarkyPuppy at @RoyalAlbertHall last night. Unbelievable show! published Friday, November 15th, 2019 note
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 28th, 2019 note
in reply to a previous Twitter post That being said, I'm nearly positive you'll love it. Wes is a fantastic teacher and his enthusiasm is infectious! published Thursday, October 10th, 2019 note
in reply to Justin Avery 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 10th, 2019 note
in reply to Justin Avery I very highly recommend @wesbos’ course, ES6 for Everyone: https://es6.io/ published Thursday, October 10th, 2019 note
in reply to Andy Bell 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 9th, 2019 note
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 25th, 2019 1 response to note
✅ went to IndieWebCamp Brighton 2019 on October 19, 2019 – October 20, 2019 Really looking forward to IndieWebCamp Brighton 2019! published Wednesday, August 21st, 2019 1 response to note
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 15th, 2019 8 responses to note
Happy Canada Day! 🇨🇦 Hope it’s a good one, eh! 🍁 published Monday, July 1st, 2019 3 responses to note
in reply to @totalplay It makes me so sad to see this tweet coming from this account. published Thursday, June 27th, 2019 note
in reply to Reply Targets, a previous article @Anonymous Do you have any ideas how to present this metadata in a way such that information doesn’t get lost? published Monday, June 24th, 2019 note
✅ went to https://www.hwclondon.co.uk/meetups/20190626 on June 26, 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 21st, 2019 note
@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 20th, 2019 note
in reply to a previous note 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 19th, 2019 note
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 10th, 2019 1 response to note
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 3rd, 2019 note
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 3rd, 2019 note
in reply to Bridging the Indieweb and the Fediverse with Bridgy Fed, part 1 by Neil Mather 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 2nd, 2019 note
in reply to Ana Rodrigues 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 11th, 2019 note
in reply to Jacky Alciné 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 10th, 2019 note
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 9th, 2019 1 response to note
Up too late, again, working on my latest rabbit hole project. So close!… but got to sleep. published Friday, April 5th, 2019 note
in reply to Vincent Pickering Really enjoyed reading this—looking forward to more! published Wednesday, April 3rd, 2019 1 response to note
in reply to @untappd_support Fantastic! That was quick! Thank you so much. 😊 published Tuesday, April 2nd, 2019 note
in reply to @untappd_support My username is chrisburnell published Tuesday, April 2nd, 2019 2 responses to note
@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 2nd, 2019 2 responses to note
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 30th, 2019 1 response to note
in reply to Aaron Parecki 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 17th, 2019 note
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 26th, 2019 6 responses to Lifelong Superpowers note
in reply to Dom Patmore 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 22nd, 2019 3 responses to note
✅ went to IndieWebCamp Online 2019 on March 9, 2019 – March 10, 2019 I will be attending https://2019.indieweb.org/online My first IndieWebCamp! Can’t wait. published Monday, February 18th, 2019 1 response to note
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 8th, 2019 8 responses to Eight Years note
✅ went to https://www.hwclondon.co.uk/meetups/20190227 on February 27, 2019 I’m going to the Indigenous & Micropub #hwclondon Special! 🎉 Are you? https://www.hwclondon.co.uk/meetups/20190227 published Tuesday, January 29th, 2019 1 response to note
in reply to Calum Ryan Works for me. Can’t wait! published Tuesday, January 29th, 2019 1 response to note
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 13th, 2019 note
✅ went to https://www.hwclondon.co.uk/meetups/20190109 on January 9, 2019 Indieweb: A New Hope 🚀 meets Return of the Chris 🙌… Can’t wait to attend HWC London again! published Saturday, December 22nd, 2018 note
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 20th, 2018 6 responses to note
😔 wasn’t able to go to https://www.hwclondon.co.uk/meetups/20181212 on December 12, 2018 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 11th, 2018 1 response to note
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 11th, 2018 3 responses to note
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 6th, 2018 1 response to note
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 6th, 2018 5 responses to note
Been looking forward to Pig’s Ear Beer Festival since last year. I'm in heaven. published Wednesday, December 5th, 2018 3 responses to note
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 4th, 2018 3 responses to note
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 3rd, 2018 note
in reply to Dom Patmore That cuts deep. I don't even want to go there. published Thursday, November 29th, 2018 note
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 29th, 2018 6 responses to note
✅ went to ffconf 2018 on November 9, 2018 An excellent event I attended in Brighton with friends from work. published Friday, November 9th, 2018 note
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 2nd, 2018 5 responses to note
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 9th, 2018 2 responses to note
Been waiting a while for this, and boy, does it ever deliver. https://open.spotify.com/album/2MdTsQBOs71AZuqETMyLY2 published Thursday, October 4th, 2018 note
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 4th, 2018 note
If this makes it onto Mastodon 👋, it means my Micropub endpoint is syndicating correctly! published Monday, October 1st, 2018 note
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 1st, 2018 4 responses to Living Deliberately note
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 13th, 2018 13 responses to DB5 note
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 8th, 2018 12 responses to note
Today at #hwclondon I’ll be attempting to enable my Micropub endpoint to accept JSON #indieweb published Wednesday, July 25th, 2018 1 response to note
✅ went to https://www.hwclondon.co.uk/meetups/20180725 on July 25, 2018 Looking forward to this again! published Monday, July 2nd, 2018 note
in reply to a previous Twitter post If this makes it onto both Twitter and my website (PESOS for now), then it looks like my endpoint is working! published Friday, June 29th, 2018 1 response to note
Rolling my own Micropub server is proving immensely difficult. Way out of my depth. Feels good to learn, albeit slowly, though. published Thursday, June 21st, 2018 1 response to note
Mugged Drinking coffee out of a sub-standard mug today because some mug has taken my mug! published Tuesday, June 19th, 2018 7 responses to Mugged note
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 15th, 2018 1 response to note
in reply to Dave Letorey I don’t think that’s a good idea. published Tuesday, May 1st, 2018 1 response to note
At my first Homebrew Website Club meetup! Planning how to roll my own micropub endpoint... #hwclondon #indieweb published Wednesday, January 24th, 2018 6 responses to note
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 25th, 2017 1 response to note
This is my first Note that I'm posting and syndicating automatically! published Wednesday, October 18th, 2017 note
Anyone using IntersectionObserver seen intersectionRatio>1? I’ve been rounding this attribute, toFixed(n), to help keep things clean. published Sunday, October 15th, 2017 note
