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Chef, web mechanic, general mayhem maker.
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Link Roundup – June 5 2019

Let’s Clarify some Misunderstandings around Sign In with Apple Aaron is the smartest person I know on this subject so I recommend reading his clarifications if you don’t understand what Sign in with Apple means. adactio shares the W3C Ethical Web Principles * There is one web * The web should not cause harm to…

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new dark mode theme style for next version of theme.

Making Progress on Jekyll-IndieWeb v2

I’ve been working on v2 of Jekyll-indieweb and the main change is that its a gem based theme. What was holding me back for a long time was that only whitelisted theme gems were allowed on GitHub Pages, with no clear path to how a theme could get whitelisted. Then I found Jekyll Remote Theme…

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The Plan

I’ve really wanted to make the jump back to static and use @eleven_ty this time. Mostly to get more famliar with Node/JS, but also because I love the flexibility. This site currently runs on WordPress, but that experiment is beyond its use by date. Wanting and doing are always two different things for me. I’ve…

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Notes

Quick thoughts and asides

July 17, 2019

18:49 #

Worst part of using public beta for macOS is everytime you update it maxs out the system resources for a day or two re-indexing your photo library.

July 13, 2019

23:11 #

this weekend’s lesson culminated with this https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll/pull/7752

July 12, 2019

15:50 #

Adding to my todo list – make a screencast showing how easy it is to edit a Markdown file in the browser in a GitHub repository. I know I’m an outlier but Google Docs never feels easy for me, despite so many people telling me it is.

11:50 #

Some day I’m going to learn how to take a screenshot with the mouse hover, but doesn’t look like its going to be today.

11:18 #

I know documentation is important to open source projects, but if everyone that’s ever complained about the lack of documentation submitted a PR to a project with more documentation…especially small team projects that are trying to address a need.