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Lost in Time

A list of reasons to include the time and timezone in Date strings and some JavaScript functions I use to consume and format them.

How I shaved 1.5 minutes off my Eleventy build time

I had a revelation earlier today that solved a long-standing performance issue I’ve been having with the initial build of my Eleventy website, and here’s how it saved me a bunch of time!

published Sunday, 24 March 2024
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Prometheus

Reflecting on what striving for success has meant to me over the years until today.

published Thursday, 18 January 2024
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Can you teach an old design system new colours?

Over the years, I’ve changed the colours used across my website a number of times, and I’m happy with what I have now, but what I’m going to talk about today are formats for defining colours and some recent behind-the-scenes changes I made to how I define colours on my website, making theming my website easier.

published Saturday, 23 December 2023
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Halfway to CSS Naked Day 2024

What better time is there to prepare for next year’s CSS Naked Day than the halfway point? Certainly better than the day before, take it from me!

published Monday, 9 October 2023

Moose Country

Photo of a greyed, dead tree, toppled over, lying partially-exposed in a small pond/bog, which is dotted with waterlillies and their pad-like leaves. Surrounding the pond is the characteristic dense carpet of forest undergrowth that can be found across Atlantic Canada, interspersed chiefly with small coniferous trees, which can also be seen in greater size and number in the background, beyond a field of undergrowth. — We can’t stop here — this is moose country!

I took this photo at the along the Cabot Trail in .

This is the 1000^th post on my website!

published Monday, 21 August 2023

Yahaha! in Halifax

A Korok, resembling a small, living tree with arms, legs, and a smiling face from the video game Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, stands (superimposed) atop an intricate structure made of small stones, polished into cubes and organised in a tight and symmetrical way. In reference to the video game, where the player can find and replace missing pieces of these structures, and upon doing so, a Korok will appear to congratulate the player, exclaiming, “Yahah! You found me!”, which is displayed in a dialogue box below the Korok.

Gotta stay alert outside the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia.

published Friday, 18 August 2023
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Happy Canada Day! 🇨🇦 Have a good one, eh?

published Saturday, 1 July 2023

Double-Double

A pixel-art image of a 1990’s-era cup of Tim Horton’s coffee

Today I’m introducing a little dash of CSS syntactic sugar I’ve been using a lot when building components recently that I’m calling the Double-Double technique.

published Monday, 12 June 2023
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Not without sacrifice

With the boom of JavaScript frameworks and legends-come-true like the new CSS parent selector, we’ve borne witness to an explosion of new technologies and ways to build for the web. But what tradeoffs have we made for all these new bells and whistles?