My favorites in 2024 for building a website are Contentful, Eleventy, LiquidJS, vanilla CSS, and vanilla JS.

I, like many people, hated email. Because, like many people, I hadn't tamed it.

I ran my fastest half marathon to date at this year’s edition of this race.

In July of this year, we gave up our rental of three years and became vagabonds. For some time, it has felt stifling to be in one place, and the lack of (physical) momentum creates a stagnancy that I don’t find comfortable. On the contrary, it is something I wish to avoid like the plague. This is a manifesto for all...

Truthfully, there is not much to recap from the past couple of weeks because I spent all of my time playing Destiny. Destiny 2 The Final Shape, the newest expansion, came out on June 4 and completely consumed me. My review: it’s excellent, and Destiny is the most beautiful game in the world. Highlights: Contest mode...

Last Sunday night we awoke to the sounds of sirens and the smell of acrid smoke. Pulling on ugg boots and going outside we were greeted by our neighbours house in flames. We ran across the road as the firetrucks pulled up. Firies began pulling on PPE and setting up hoses while the IC went looking for the electrical...

Hello, and welcome to my journal and site. This site is made in Zola and presented using a simple CSS file. No themes or plugins, so far, have been used in its creation. I’m quite proud of that. It is presented in four sections: The Journal: you are here, where I write about the workings of this site, bits of what...

I wrote my first blog post 10 years ago using Jekyll as a framework. I didn’t love the process. It took quite a bit of work to get something I liked. I felt like I was promised a quick-and-easy solution but found that I was sinking an unexpected amount of time into tweaking things. Plain HTML blogging I recently...

I noticed a while back that a lot of new romantic comedies (especially those pumped out by streaming services like Netflix and Amazon Prime) have optimized their formulas to the point that you can predict basically the whole plot from just the title and movie poster. To bring a little more spice into them, I started...

A humble prayer: Dear God, come down, be present in this needy soul, explain the way of life again, give power to save the wayward fool.

I went to Berlin for the first time and spoke at The Merge, a developer experience conference!