This is a curated list of articles I've read and have shared online as I believe they are worth sharing. I aim to update this list on a weekly basis. You can keep up to date with all the links I share by revisiting this page, or alternately, you can subscribe to the RSS feed for links.
Re: Blocking Bots
Inspired by Neil Clarke and Ethan Marcotte, I moved my list of crawlers to a Jekyll YAML data file, and now use it to compile both the .htaccess and robots.txt…
A Multiplicity of Writing
On this site, I write and publish in a variety of different forms, each serving their own unique purpose. I want to describe what these different are and how...
More Indieweb Automation
Follow-up to a previous case study on how I automated my static website publishing workflow. This time, a lean Shortcut script is allowing me to write…
Dynamic Content Includes
Those of you who have been following along with my posts this month may have noticed that I’m participating in Weblog Posting Month 2024. At the end of each of…
Thinking Big and Small
It’s so easy to start with the question, “What should I do?” And end up with a discussion about other people and what they’re doing. Here’s Paul Ford: I’ll give…
But what about the shadow DOM?
I got a lot of responses to my article yesterday about the wrong way to build Web Components that insisted that “HTML only shows when the JavaScript loads” is a…
Upgraded to Eleventy v3
The alpha release of Eleventy v3 became available in December '23. It took me a little while, but I finally upgraded this website to v3.0.0-alpha.10 today. This…
Slash Pages
Don't care about the backstory? Go check out slashpages.net. While putting Baby Knight to bed I had an idea for a project: a…
Design interviews
I’ve been doing a lot of interviews for designers lately so here’s a list of all the questions I’m asking along the way and maybe this helps someone out there…
CSS is fun again
CSS has been undergoing a quiet renaissance lately. Lots of big features which previously required an external tool to use, are now native parts of the…