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Scheduling Blog Posts with Eleventy, Netlify, and IFTTT
Eleventy makes it easy to automatically publish future blog posts with a little JavaScript and some outside app help.
The Widening Anxieties of Young Front-end Developers
A recent essay reminded me how the anxieties that pushed me to become a better developer are often drowning me instead.
Six Surprises I Found in the WCAG 2.1 Accessibility Rules
I'm broadly familiar with the current accessibility standards. But when I took some time to read them in detail, I learned some unexpected lessons.
Enjoying A Cabin Vacation
A casual recap of things I enjoyed, didn't enjoy, and really didn't enjoy in a cabin in the woods.
Min, Max, and Clamp
A few useful CSS functions for value ranges have been well-supported for a while, and I finally found them.
Let Yourself Not Be Extraordinary
All the time, but especially during a quarantine, it's okay to not be super amazing awesome.
Keeping Healthy by Controlling Anger
Anger shouldn't motivate us at the cost of our physical health, even amid injustice in a pandemic.
Relearning my Blog's Old Lessons
Sometimes the only way to remember lessons in blog posts is to email them to myself.
Let Them Eat Cricket Cake
It's fun to imagine the future of widespread, sustainable eating could be eating crickets. In many different forms.
Four Ways to Defend Your Identity Against Distractions (and Mental Goblins)
Life is full of distractions that threaten our sense of identity, especially in quarantine. Keeping our identities it means learning to embrace quiet and solitude.
The Ambiguities as Nazi Germany Rose To Power
Nazi Germany is universally seen as bad now, but it happened much later than many today would have expected.
What A Steeled Soup Kitchen Manager can Teach about Giving
Sheltering in place made me realize how much I miss many people in my life. One of them a woman whose unyielding personality helps fuel her selfless work in a soup kitchen.
Don't Abdicate Work to the 'Heroes'
Giving thanks to others should not be an excuse to avoid your share of work in a pandemic.
Spotlighting a Man in the Street
A man leaving a car in the middle of the road to greet someone reminded me how to handle a stressful cognitive bias.