parenting
Today I would like to sing the praises of parenting a two year old. I am having so much fun, and my kid is such a joy to be around. Sometimes the narrative around parenting a toddler is all about the Terrible Twos or having a Threenager and how your
tools
The other day I came across the results page for a "Back to School" Community Code Jam hosted by 32-Bit Cafe, an online community for website hobbyists & professionals. The Code Jam was a challenge to build a webpage about "a complicated concept you love explaining."
canada
I have been working to learn over the last decade or so to reject binary frameworks: very little (but probably not nothing, I note with irony) is an all or nothing proposition; very little is as black and white as the convenient narratives and theories of my childhood made it
code
Here are some useful settings in my Zsh profile and a few other dotfiles. See also: some useful snippets for programming, and keyboard shortcuts I like and all my other tech resources posts. Docker stuff If you have an M-series (Intel) Mac, put this in your .zshrc right now to
nebraska
Today A month ago (this took a bit to finish writing, it turns out) I read a blog by Lou Plummer about the town he lives in: Fayetteville, NC. I thought it was a nice little look at his view of what makes his town nice to live in, and
books
The following are notes I took from the "Where to Live" chapter of David Pogue's book "How to Prepare for Climate Change". If you are thinking about what life in your area may be like in the coming years of climate chaos, or are
recommendations
Sometimes people with a body type similar to mine want to wear a suit to some fancy event, and don't know where to shop. They may be looking for a more masculine or androgynous look, or they may just want something that fits a body with hips/butt/
code
First posted: January 12, 2024 Updated 3-26-2024: Added timestamp to date to make my RSS feed better I have been thinking for a long time that it would be nice to have a script that would easily scaffold out the frontmatter for a new post on my blog (aka this
resources
Theory * Everyone Should Blog, and That Includes You, a manifesto. * I recently read a post (sorry, have already lost the link) that emphasized that you should just pick a way to blog (a static site you built? WordPress? something else?) and then stop messing with it and just get writing.
books
First posted: March 15, 2023; last updated February 2024. A short(ish) list of queer books I've read & enjoyed over the last couple years. None of these are affiliate links. (read: I'm not making money on this) Fiction * Detransition, Baby is so, so good. A
abundance
Today I was introduced to the work of Juliet Schor, whose book The Overspent American was published in 1997. Schor is an American economist and sociologist, who has studied work and consumerism for a long time now. She's still out there doing it, too. I read Chapter One
code
I've been wanting a way to add posts in markdown to my 11ty site from my Android phone, without using a 3rd party CMS. I'm going to try out Decap CMS (formerly Netlify CMS) to do this, and tell you what I do to get it
