Posts
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NY Times: “Spare a Thought for the Indies”
Indie bookstores and how they’re coping with the pandemic, illustrated by Bob Eckstein
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Dave Rupert: “Technical debt as a lack of understanding”
Metaphors for technical complexity and refactoring.
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The New Yorker: “How to Misread Jane Austen”
Louis Menand on interpreting the politics of Jane Austen and her work.
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Marius Masalar: “iPhone 11 Camera Retrospective”
Marius Masalar reflects on a year spent shooting with an iPhone 11.
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The Guardian: “Big oil’s answer to melting Arctic: cooling the ground so it can keep drilling”
Lighting fires as the world burns.
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NPR: “How Big Oil Misled The Public Into Believing Plastic Would Be Recycled”
We’ve been recycling plastic for nothing.
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Mandy Brown: “The case for rereading”
A meditation on how books rewire our brains and give us shelter so we can flourish.
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Nimit Shah: “My Landscape of Literature”
Nimit Shah on how they visualized their history of reading.
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Fine-tuning the grid in my Reading log.
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The Ringer: “The Future of Film Talk Is on Letterboxd”
The Ringer takes a look at Letterboxd, the social film discovery network.
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Trying out MacDown, an open-source Markdown editor
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Notes on this website release.
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Eleventy: Escaping Nunjucks Statements in Markdown Code Blocks
Making code blocks with Nunjucks statements safe for Nunjucks template rendering.
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Eleventy: RSS Feeds and Front Matter Data
Getting front matter data into my Nunjucks RSS feed templates.
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Changing up the switches and keycaps on a Drop ALT compact keyboard.
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Eleventy: Tag List Sorting and Post Count
Getting front matter data into my Nunjucks RSS feed templates.
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Eleventy: Images Responsiver Markup
Tweaking Images Responsiver for figure element markup.
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Ethan Marcotte: “The design systems between us”
Link to Ethan Marcotte’s post about teamwork, communication, design systems, and gaps in process.
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Refining my responsive images approach with Nicolas Hoizey’s Images Responsiver plugin.
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I belatedly figure out how to get debug output in Eleventy.