Anthony Ciccarello
Anthony Ciccarello
Anthony Ciccarello
I'm a software engineer living in Southern California building cool things using JavaScript and other web technologies. I enjoy travel, disc sports, and spending time in nature.
Latest Posts
Thanks Joe for hosting HTML Day San Diego 2026. I had a great time exploring some CSS features I use less frequently while getting fresh air. Plus I met some great new people! It’s not much but I’ve published my HTML page with a few...
Bookmarked “HTML Day San Diego 2026”: Let's write and celebrate HTML and hang out San Diego! I’m excited to be attending this event in San Diego writing HTML in the park is tomorrow (Saturday August 8) in San Diego (among other places)!...
This book had some fantastic passages. The detail that Baker captures about the life of a falcon is impressive and offers an interesting window into this bird of prey. But I struggle to see who I can recommend it to. I only see the most...
Was hanging out on the beach tonight and saw a SpaceX rocket. I’m not sure the world needs more Starlink satellites but it is a cool sight to witness. It’s interesting to see how the rocket changes as it gets higher into the atmosphere....
Another season of travel is wrapping up. As hard as travel days and flight delays are, there is always something magical about seeing the world from above.
Bookmarked “You don’t have to blog like me” by Dan Q This is your reminder that having a personal website entitles you to blog however you want. There are lots of patterns communities have developed but it’s basically all optional. The...
It was really great to be back on the lake in New Hampshire with family. Other than some smoke, the weather was great. The green trees were a welcome contrast to California dry sumer. We swam, kayaked to the island, picked blueberries,...
Caspian Tern looking for food in the San Diego River This May I set some big goals for my birthday month. Coming off of a fun experience at the 2026 San Diego Bird Festival, I decided to share my hobby with my friends and family. Most...
Bookmarked “From coder to curator” by André Staltz I don’t claim to know what the future holds for AI software. But I this post aligns most with where I see the industry going in the short term. As a senior engineer I spend a lot of my...
Omnibear v2.3.0 has been release with some improvements to the login flow. But more importantly, it is now available in the Chrome Web Store! If you have a website that supports Micropub, check it out. Also posted to: news.indieweb.org
Had some fun with the site recently and added some new pages/functionality: added animations between pages (when opening posts) improved caching to faster page loads updated search page components added more hats
Raptors are so cool. I had a great time watching and interacting with this Harris Hawk and Lanner Falcon with Total Raptor eXperience in La Jolla. Such amazing birds with unique abilities that fit unique niches in ecology. It takes a lot...
I now have bird stats on my website pulled from my ebird profile!
2026 Preface Back in 2022 I imported my photos from Instagram to my site. I started with Instagram’s official export file and converted to markdown files which is the format my site uses. While I worked on the import I started...
Spangled Cotinga Had lots of fun with the camera at the San Diego Safari Park with my sister. So many cool animals and fun scenes. It’s not every day you see a man walking an aardvark or a zookeeper named Fern. I finally caught a (poorly...