Blog (RSS, includes microBlog)

My letter to President Biden

Jul 3, 2024

1 minute to read

Trump with image of NY Times front page headline

Upgrade 11ty to v3, reorg, ESM, and debug

Jun 28, 2024

8 minutes to read

Got RSS Feeds?

Jun 11, 2024

5 minutes to read

billboard in a field with the words 'got milk?'

The node CLI scripts of my dreams

Jun 5, 2024

13 minutes to read

A top-level view of a node CLI

My hearing loss journey...consider a cochlear implant?

May 17, 2024

8 minutes to read

a drawing of a person without hearing in their left ear

The 11ty Bundle continues - A year in review

May 1, 2024

6 minutes to read

an early sketch of the 11ty bundle website design

Time-lapse gym construction

Mar 15, 2024

2 minutes to read

the insides of a construction site for a new gymnasium

Refactoring by shortcode

Feb 19, 2024

7 minutes to read

A programmer feverishly refactoring some code

Slashing by caching

Jan 31, 2024

4 minutes to read

the word cache on a printed circuit board

One amazing sunset

Jan 29, 2024

Less than 1 minute to read

My wife and our dog silhouetted against the sunset

Declassifying my site header

Jan 26, 2024

2 minutes to read

an empty classroom with a blackboard and a few chairs

Adding webmentions to my site

Jan 13, 2024

8 minutes to read

a neon sign with a heart and a zero next to it

My defaults are my faults

Dec 24, 2023

1 minute to read

WTF in an office setting

Adding pagefind to my Eleventy personal site

Dec 6, 2023

5 minutes to read

a magnifying glass sitting on a blue surface

Generating the Firehose page on the 11tybundle site

Nov 21, 2023

3 minutes to read

A notebook of pages

Pagination in a Javascript template with Eleventy

Oct 31, 2023

3 minutes to read

A notebook of pages

Scratch that...use the Google Sheets API

Oct 30, 2023

12 minutes to read

Google sheet icon on the left, json output on the right

From Airtable to Google Sheets with Some AI

Oct 17, 2023

10 minutes to read

The top portion of the Google Apps script to export a Google Sheet to json.

Finding an exercise regimen that sticks

Oct 16, 2023

7 minutes to read

My home gym setup, a yoga mat, some kettlebells, and a balance cushion

Question...how to count outbound links and saving that count

Jun 4, 2023

2 minutes to read

child playing with abbacus

The 11ty Bundle - Issues 1 - 4

May 15, 2023

Less than 1 minute to read

an AI-generated image of the number eleven

The evolution of my CSS pipeline in Eleventy (part 2)

Mar 26, 2023

13 minutes to read

a screen containing a jumble of minified CSS

The evolution of my CSS pipeline in Eleventy (part 1)

Mar 14, 2023

13 minutes to read

a screen with a few lines of CSS

My first 30 days of learning to play the piano

Feb 4, 2023

6 minutes to read

a man playing a Steinway piano

Learning to play the piano

Jan 23, 2023

7 minutes to read

a man playing a Steinway piano

My winding road toward knee replacement surgery

Dec 28, 2022

11 minutes to read

picture of my knee, prior to replacement surgery

I left Twitter

Dec 26, 2022

1 minute to read

firefighter walking away from a dumpster fire

Losing my brother to cancer

Apr 26, 2022

5 minutes to read

The day we spread my brother's ashes in the Atlantic Ocean

This never happened, but...

Apr 2, 2022

4 minutes to read

a man smoking a cigarette

From all Open Props to only Open Props I use

Mar 8, 2022

4 minutes to read

essential love drawn in color on a chalkboard

Dipping my toe in the Open Props water

Feb 22, 2022

2 minutes to read

a foot near the water at the beach

Calculating reading time for a post

Feb 6, 2022

3 minutes to read

a boy reading at sunset

Is this thing on?

Feb 5, 2022

1 minute to read

a boy screaming into a microphone