All posts from 2020
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Apple’s long-rumored over-ear headphones launch.
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Two different flavors of Netlify redirects, in an Eleventy context.
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Eleventy: The
logUniversal FilterAfter writing my own filter it turns out Eleventy already has one.
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Remembering one of my favorite NYC record stores.
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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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Eleventy: Tag List Sorting and Post Count
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: 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.
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Eleventy: Paired Shortcodes and Markdown Rendering
Implementing figure markup with a Paired Shortcode, plus adventures in Markdown rendering.
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Eleventy: Markdown and Footnotes
Adding footnote support to markdown-it in Eleventy.
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Dates, Data files, and Custom Filters in Eleventy.
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Eleventy: Custom Content Type and Collection for Books
Building a custom content type, collection, and templates for logging my reading.
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Sally Rooney’s short story prequel for Normal People.
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Alice Wu’s follow up to Saving Face.
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Austin Kleon: “If you are having trouble reading…”
Austin Kleon’s advice for reading during this pandemic.
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NYT: “‘Mad Max: Fury Road’: The Oral History of a Modern Action Classic”
Mad Max: Fury Road, in the words of those who created it.
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Captain Awkward: “How do I set goals if I don’t want anything?”
Grappling with career goals in the midst of a pandemic.
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The Sweet Setup: “Using an iPad for Photography Workflows”
The Sweet Setup updates their look at turning the iPad into your go-anywhere photography workstation.
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Jeff Chu: “It Is Not Well with My Soul, But I’m Trying (Part 2)”
Jeff Chu remembers Rachel Held Evans, one year after her death.
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Emily VanDerWerff: “On editing”
Notes on editing mixed in with a meditation on narration in Susan Choi’s “Trust Exercise”
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Video Editing Comes to Darkroom
Embracing video in Darkroom
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Another one for the notebook nerds.
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Visualizing my Reading with Semiotic
Notes from my experiments with the Semiotic dataviz library.
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Robin Rendle: “Friendship Homework”
Robin Rendle on friendship, books, and links.
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Mandy Brown on leading remote teams in a pandemic.
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Netflix’s series set between WWI and WWII
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Ethan Marcotte: “Through a design system, darkly.”
Ethan Marcotte on pattern-led and process-led approaches to design pattern systems.
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Ben Brooks’ review of the ALT keyboard, and links to features on custom keyboard builder Tae Ha Kim.
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Laura Kalbag: “How to Read RSS in 2020”
Laura Kalbag’s quick overview of RSS, its benefits, and some RSS clients.
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NPR’s Code Switch on Friendships and Race
A podcast two-parter from NPR’s Code Switch.
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Netlify Large Media and Eleventy
Some links that helped me figure out image derivatives with Eleventy and Netlify.
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(Almost) everything I read in 2019.