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Organizations that I'm supporting
Sep 13, 2025 · I am supporting two organizations that address issues important to me.

August 1, 2025 is a mixed bag
Jul 29, 2025 · I've got mixed feelings about the coming August 1st. Here's why...

What was I thinking? Posts, Notes, & TILs?
Jul 20, 2025 · Why did I make posting more complicated than it needed to be?

Got stickers?
May 27, 2025 · You can now buy 11ty Bundle stickers!

Zottman curls? I had not heard of these.
May 19, 2025 · Curiosity about these curls led me to try them.

Who knew that '/' does 'search in page' on Firefox?
May 18, 2025 · Since I implemented pressing the '/' key to put focus in the search bard on on the 11ty Bundle site, I learned something.

1 + 1: Celebrating 2 years of the 11ty Bundle
May 1, 2025 · 11tybundle.dev is 2 years old. Here are some highlights of the last year.

A keystroke to place focus in the search box
Apr 26, 2025 · How I mimicked the GitHub page functionality of typing a slash key to place focus in the search box.

Fitness is not a project
Apr 25, 2025 · Us project-oriented folks like to see things as come to an close. Sadly, fitness is not one of those kinds of projects.

The personal effects of NIH funding cuts
Apr 17, 2025 · Losing my dad too soon and later scientific breakthroughts that would have saved him.

Empathy is NOT a weakness, Elon!
Mar 31, 2025 · Cory Booker is the antidote to the deeply misguided Elon Musk.

Music as a pain reliever, post-op
Mar 26, 2025 · I've discovered that listening to music is a marvelous way to reduce pain sensation after knee replacement surgery.

YACCB - Yet Another Copy Code Button
Mar 23, 2025 · After reading of the usefulness of a 'copy code' button, it was time to add one here.

If you're considering knee replacement surgery
Mar 13, 2025 · Here are a couple of resources that have helped me to prepare for knee replacement surgery.

Adding tags to my home page
Mar 3, 2025 · I added tags to my home page to make the site's content more discoverable.

A node script to create new entries
Feb 7, 2025 · I made a node script to create new entries for this site. It's up on GitHub.

Sia taught me about lite youtube embeds
Feb 6, 2025 · While I have only one YouTube video on this site, I wanted to make it more performant. Sia Karamalegos taught me how to do that.

The Endless Summer - The Perfect Wave
Feb 6, 2025 · This movie came out just when I became interested in surfing. I absolutely love this clip.

11ty Meetup - How I built my Books page
Feb 6, 2025 · I presented at the 11ty Meetup on how I built my Books page. Here's the video and a link to a PDF of the slides.

Ok, this is my 'final' final word on RSS entry IDs
Feb 2, 2025 · I've been able to fully automate the process of creating, at initial post time, a unique and permanent ID for each RSS feed entry.

What the fuck is happening in our country?
Feb 1, 2025 · We're on the cusp of a serious decline of the country. We all need to remain aware of what's going on.

If this was happening in a foreign country
Feb 1, 2025 · How US media would talk about this if it was happening in a foreign country

I wanted to validate the presence of an rssid in my front matter
Feb 1, 2025 · Rather than have my RSS entry ID be missing, I wanted to validate its presence at build time.

Prepare for a minor flood of RSS entries
Jan 31, 2025 · I have changed the way that I create IDs in my RSS feeds. As a result, there will be a flood of new entries in your feed reader.

My last word on RSS entry IDs
Jan 30, 2025 · In an effort to create more robust and truly unique and permanent IDs for my RSS feed entries, I built a thing to help.

Creating quasi-permanently unique entry IDs for RSS
Jan 27, 2025 · I was inspired to create permanently unique entry IDs for my RSS feed after reading a post by Evan Sheehan.

Much more to come on RSS entry IDs
Jan 26, 2025 · I made the effort to adjust how I create ids for each entry in my RSS feeds. There's a fuller blog post in the works.

On RSS entry IDs
Jan 25, 2025 · Evan Sheehan has a great post about why using the URL for a post for its RSS ID is not a good idea.

Today I Learned, Linked, or Loved
Jan 25, 2025 · Initally a 'note', this is now the first entry in my 'TIL' page for things that I have Learned, Linked, or Loved..

11ty Bundle Moved to Cloudflare
Jan 25, 2025 · I've bitten the bullet and moved the 11ty bundle from Netlify to Cloudflare Pages.

I might make a Today I Learned / Linked section
Jan 20, 2025 · I'm considering making a Today I Learned / Linked page. Inspired by Simon Willison's link blog.

Blog Questions Challenge
Jan 20, 2025 · I've been tagged to answer the big blog questions of the day. Here goes.

Playing Poosticks
Jan 16, 2025 · We played Poohsticks on this bridge today.

Music is replacing my self-talk
Jan 15, 2025 · Ever since I started listening to music while working out, I've noticed that my self-talk has been replaced by the songs I listen to.

Number 24, a powerful WW II movie
Jan 6, 2025 · We watched Number 24 on Netflix. It was a very moving portrayal of an incredibly brave Norwegian.

How I built the Books page
Jan 2, 2025 · I went live with my Books page a short while ago. Here's how I built it.

I'm really not enjoying these afib episodes
Dec 28, 2024 · I had my 7th afib episode of 2024. It took longer that usual to convert back to normal sinus rhythm. I'm really not enjoying these afib episodes.

Look Ma, I've styled my RSS feed
Dec 26, 2024 · I'd seen this done by several people and decided to give it a go.

No cochlear implant...yet
Dec 26, 2024 · Due to the lack of Medicare coverage for single-sided deafness, I've opted out of getting a cochlear implant.

Final Christmastime Fiddling
Dec 24, 2024 · I spent the last several days fiddling with this site. I changed the microBlog terminology to call them notes and I built a bookshelf page.

Trying to develop a new reading habit
Dec 21, 2024 · My book reading has been all over the map. I'm going to try to develop a more consistent habit.

This site now lives on Cloudflare
Dec 19, 2024 · I migrated this site to Cloudflare to reduce the bandwidth demands on my Netlify account. Details later.

Migrating this site to Cloudflare
Dec 16, 2024 · Netlify surprised me with a bandwidth notice, so I've decided to move this site to Cloudflare.

Tagging posts and 'futzing' with my site
Dec 8, 2024 · I've spent some time adding some more descriptive tags to my posts. I call this phase of blogging "futzing."

Going all in with 'native' markdown
Dec 3, 2024 · I've been typing way too much. There are simpler ways to use markdown for images and tables of contents. Here's how I'm doing it.

Knee replacement 2.0, things have changed
Dec 1, 2024 · I had my right knee replaced four years ago. In March 2025, I will have my left knee replaced. What has changed? With me and with the technology of knee replacements.

Happy Thanksgiving 2024
Nov 27, 2024 · Wishing everyone a happy Thanksgiving. Be safe, be grateful and enjoy the day.

A tweak to how I use Pagefind
Nov 27, 2024 · I use the Pagefind package to add search to my personal site. It was returning way too many result for simple words. I made a small tweak to fix that.

Is there an echo in here?
Nov 26, 2024 · I'm trying out Robb Knight's Echofeed service

Eleventy transform speeds local development...a lot!
Nov 24, 2024 · I just converted all the images on my site to use the Eleventy Transform capability in v3.0.0 and wow did it slash my local build times.

What will I do next among the many things I want to do?
Nov 23, 2024 · I've got a lot of things I want to do, but I can't do them all at once. What will I do next?

I'm finally unvexed by microblog post dates
Nov 23, 2024 · I recently had a problem on this here microblog. It has to do with dates. But it's all ok now.

My circle of friends on Bluesky
Nov 23, 2024 · There's a very cool service called Skircle that generates an image of your circle of friends on Bluesky. Here's mine.

Issue 61 is shaping up
Nov 18, 2024 · We're still in Italy, but Issue 61 of the 11ty Bundle is shaping up to be a doozy.

We're in Italy at the moment
Nov 14, 2024 · Vacationing in Italy has its upsides, especially following the US election.

The day after...and we're in Italy
Nov 7, 2024 · The day after the election. The results are in. The country is divided. The future is uncertain. And we're in Italy.

Anxiety officially reduced
Nov 5, 2024 · After an eventful day, I'm feeling much better...for several reasons.

I'm currently anxious about way too many things
Nov 4, 2024 · On the eve of the election and international travel, I'm worried about a lot of stuff.

Is it really a new design?
Nov 2, 2024 · I've "redesigned" my personal site.

The first microBlog post
Nov 2, 2024 · I've set up a microBlog on the site and this is the first post in it.

My letter to President Biden
Jul 3, 2024 · I wrote this letter to President Biden to express my thoughts on his candidacy for the office of President in 2024.

Upgrade 11ty to v3, reorg, ESM, and debug
Jun 28, 2024 · I upgraded to 11ty v3 and proceeded to debug.

Got RSS Feeds?
Jun 11, 2024 · How I search for, and find, RSS feeds, programmatically.

The node CLI scripts of my dreams
Jun 5, 2024 · I built a few node CLI scripts to support management of the 11ty Bundle site database.

My hearing loss journey...consider a cochlear implant?
May 17, 2024 · I'm considering getting a cochlear implant after having lost hearing in my left ear 9 years ago.

The 11ty Bundle continues - A year in review
May 1, 2024 · The 11ty Bundle website launched one year ago today. I'm still doing it.

Time-lapse gym construction
Mar 15, 2024 · Way back in 2005-06, I helped a young school generate a time-lapse video of the construction of their new gymnasium. It was a fun project and I'm glad to have been a part of it.

Refactoring by shortcode
Feb 19, 2024 · I decided to take on some overdue refactoring of the 11tybundle.dev site. Here's what I did.

Slashing by caching
Jan 31, 2024 · I've reduced the build time for the 11ty Bundle site from 30 seconds to 10 seconds. Here's how.

One amazing sunset
Jan 29, 2024 · Last night's sunset was amazing.

Declassifying my site header
Jan 26, 2024 · I've been reviewing my html and css and decided to remove unnecessary classes from my header.

Adding webmentions to my site
Jan 13, 2024 · I had told myself that I wouldn't do this...but, seeing them on other people's sites changed my mind.

My defaults are my faults
Dec 24, 2023 · Welcome to my list of defaults!

Adding pagefind to my Eleventy personal site
Dec 6, 2023 · I've been wanting to add search functionality to this site for a while. Pagefind made it simple.

Generating the Firehose page on the 11tybundle site
Nov 21, 2023 · Here's how the Firehose page of the 11tybundle.dev site is built.

Pagination in a Javascript template with Eleventy
Oct 31, 2023 · Here I use a javascript template to generate json data files for selected categories of the 11tybundle.dev site.

Scratch that...use the Google Sheets API
Oct 30, 2023 · Just generating a json file from Google Sheets was not good enough. I had to use the API.

From Airtable to Google Sheets with Some AI
Oct 17, 2023 · From paid to free, I've moved the 11tybundle.dev data from Airtable to Google Sheets.

Finding an exercise regimen that sticks
Oct 16, 2023 · At 68 years old, it was high time to find an exercise regimen that I could stick with...at least for a while.

Question...how to count outbound links and saving that count
Jun 4, 2023 · I'm in search of a solution to add outbound link tracking to my site for use as a post popularity indicator.

The 11ty Bundle - Issues 1 - 4
May 15, 2023 · These have been moved to 11tybundle.dev.

The evolution of my CSS pipeline in Eleventy (part 2)
Mar 26, 2023 · Evolution is a continuous phenomenon.

The evolution of my CSS pipeline in Eleventy (part 1)
Mar 14, 2023 · Handling CSS in Eleventy has been an evolutionary experience.

My first 30 days of learning to play the piano
Feb 4, 2023 · A brief dive into my journey...with a few stats and a couple of (bad) audio clips.

Learning to play the piano
Jan 23, 2023 · It's time for a new learning experience. So this year, I decided to learn to play the piano.

My winding road toward knee replacement surgery
Dec 28, 2022 · Seeking to buy time as I prepare for what seems to be inevitable…knee replacement surgery.

I left Twitter
Dec 26, 2022 · I left the dumpster fire that is Twitter a couple of weeks ago.

Losing my brother to cancer
Apr 26, 2022 · Feelings of pain, fond memories, and odd coincidences keep me connected to the brother I lost to cancer.

This never happened, but...
Apr 2, 2022 · The following recounts a very real dream/nightmare that I had in the early morning hours of Jan 4, 2022.

From all Open Props to only Open Props I use
Mar 8, 2022 · Got Open Props working on my site, but wanted to reduce the size of my CSS in production.

Dipping my toe in the Open Props water
Feb 22, 2022 · I saw the recent launch of Open Props and watched an intro video. I was intrigued, so I dipped my toe in the water.

Calculating reading time for a post
Feb 6, 2022 · Where does that '3 minutes to read' come from?

Is this thing on?
Feb 5, 2022 · Welcome to the first post of my new site!