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Junk Drawer updates
New content and a homepage update.
2023-03-20
Spring cleaning Projects section.
Upgrading to Eleventy 2.0.0
A step-by-step for an incredibly easy process, again.
2023-02-24
Eleventy v2.0.0 upgrade!
Regaining momentum
Trying to get the ball rolling again.
HTMHell: Reading the meter
Considerations when using the meter element published at HTMHell.
Shifting things around
Figuring a few things out around here, and maybe elsewhere.
2022-11-16
Accessibility fixes.
2022-11-07
Added Mastodon to footer links.
2022-11-06
Adding studio links and other tweaks.
2022-11-05
Small footer updates.
Logical Junk Drawer
I used logical properties for a new site, and I liked it.
Year two in the books
Year-in-review, part two.
2022-09-06
A little bit of clean-up.
WordPress & Eleventy part two: Eleventy
Some considerations for using WordPress as a headless content management system for Eleventy.
WordPress & Eleventy part one: WordPress
Some considerations for setting up WordPress to use with Eleventy.
2022-07-29
Finally, a contact form!
Behold the Junk Drawer
Another new site! And a new article or two on the way.
2022-07-15
RSS bug fix and skip link improvement.
2022-06-05
Adding Eleventy as the generator and other things.
2022-05-16
Quickie Safari focus outline fix.
2022-05-02
Spring cleaning!
Two new sites
New sites, existential quandaries and burnout.
2022-04-01
Link rot cleanup and other housekeeping
2022-03-04
Accessibility tweaks
2022-02-09
Minor clean-up
Upgrading to Eleventy 1.0.0
A step-by-step for an incredibly easy process.
2022-01-30
Eleventy upgrade!
Finally adding a dark theme
A minor health scare was the prompt I needed to add a dark theme.
2021-12-30
Dark theme!
2021-11-28
Back to top, Kofi, dev.to
Dear HTML element
A collection of love letters to HTML tags.
2021-11-20
Added Plausible
Time is on your side
The HTML time element is both useful and easy to use.
2021-11-16
Small fixes
2021-11-14
IndieWeb!
2021-11-01
Updated anchor links and added monetization.
The accidental project
When an existing project suddenly needs a new home.
2021-10-29
Dropped Gulp, added Kofi.
2021-09-25
Back to top and other things.
2021-09-08
Style tweaks.
Year one in the books
A year-in-review of sorts.
2021-09-05
One more homepage tweak.
The sprucing party continues
The homepage and Projects landing page get a freshening.
2021-09-03
Small mostly homepage related tweaks.
2021-08-30
Homepage and Projects landing page refresh.
2021-08-28
Added a Manifest.
A bit of sprucing up
Addressing an initial annoyance and adding something unexpected.
2021-08-23
Added a Style Guide!
2021-08-22
New footer!
2021-08-21
Small CSS tweaks.
2021-08-06
A grab bag of tweaks.
Migrating the Pile
Using Pocket, Airtable and Eleventy for a personal bookmarking site.
How to turn off Browsersync ghostMode in Eleventy
A quick how-to.
2021-07-04
A fix and a tweak to Browsersync.
2021-06-14
A lot content style updates.
Do New York City mayoral candidates have accessible campaign sites?
Nine candidates, ten review criteria, how did they fare?
2021-05-24
Added anchor to heading level 3.
2021-05-20
Added an accessibility statement.
Testing Forestry CMS with Eleventy
I created a test site to learn about using Forestry CMS with Eleventy.
2021-05-19
Streamlined list styles, that's it!
2021-04-27
Snazzing up the type and some housekeeping.
2021-04-22
Reworking some text and opting out of FLoC.
Annual Kentucky Derby 8 ball
Unintentionally tracking my dev skills.
2021-04-10
A few little clean up items.
Quick fix and a test
Two great resources and testing out something unrelated.
2021-04-01
Dates updates!
Horse Racing Datasets redesigned
A redesign and port to Eleventy is finally in the books.
2021-03-05
Fixed a bug, whoops!
Ugging along
A brief catch up on slow progress and other items of note.
2021-02-05
No more smooth scrolling.
Random Replay Generator spiff up
Wrapping up the end of the year list by knocking off one final to-do.
2020-12-26
A few tweaks.
Dynamic heading levels in Eleventy
While looking around a repository at something else I discovered this clever approach.
2020-12-14
Added accessible permalinks to heading anchors.
2020-12-11
Added heading anchors and table styles.
Using Airtable with Eleventy
A long-winded look at getting Airtable data into Eleventy.
Update on the end of the year to-do list
A quick update on the quick note about some work I'd like to get done by the end of the year.
2020-11-23
A few little fixes.
End of the year to-do list
A quick note to keep myself honest about some work I'd like to get done by the end of the year.
Omnisurface Stars Archive
An archive and upgrade of an old project.
2020-10-30
A few accessibility improvements.
Responsive and Accessible Data Tables
Giving an old project a new home provided an opportunity for an upgrade.
2020-10-19
Adding a new project and a few small tweaks.
2020-10-07
Tweak to headingLevel variable plus a few others.
2020-10-02
CSS clean-up continues.
2020-09-28
Restructured the content layouts to better share the styles across content sections.
Manually splitting CSS files in Eleventy
Don't want to use a bundler? Eleventy makes it easy to manually split your CSS.
2020-09-24
Moved the 'set css' variable from the base template into content-specific templates.
2020-09-21
Fixed a CSS code splitting whoopsie and a few other tweaks.
2020-09-20
Homepage clean-up and lots of CSS rearchitecting.
2020-09-16
Cutting down on requests.
2020-09-15
The tweak-a-thon continues.
2020-09-14
Image swap and font preload.
Fun with image optimization
Over the weekend I updated the site to use next-gen image formats, and it was kind of fun.
2020-09-13
Image optimization and a new changelog format.
2020-09-09
A homepage update and a lot of little tweaks.
Stakes Profiles
Data visualizations of trends for specific Thoroughbred stakes races since 1991
Random Replay Generator
Making it easy to binge-watch Thoroughbred horse racing replays.
Pile of hrefs
A hastily thrown together project, prompted by a moment of thinking "Maybe I would use Pinboard more if it was responsive?"
Paths to the Kentucky Derby Since 1990
Viewing prep race paths of Kentucky Derby winners over the years.
Kentucky Derby Magic 8 Ball
Fun with randomization.
Horse Racing Datasets
Shared datasets for Thoroughbred horse racing.
Finally, a new site
After many fits and starts I finally have a proper site. Let me tell you all about it!
Using Eleventy data files for frequently used links
Have a set of frequently referenced links? A global data file can come in handy.