The books I read in 2024
This year, among other things, I finally finished off two dense reads I’d previously stalled on, and tackled a big landmark novel.
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100 stars
This week, 1,779 days after publishing the first version of the first plugin, Embed Everything earned its 100th GitHub star. It’s a nice little milestone, and a good opportunity to take stock.
Archiving your Twitter account with Eleventy
The Twitter we knew is dead, but I wanted to preserve an archive of my account, on my own terms. Here's how I did it.
Save the bike lanes
The Environmental Registry of Ontario asked for comment on the province’s plot to kill Toronto’s bike lanes. Here’s what I said.
The books I read in 2023
This year I focused on completing some book series, while tracing back the original influences for others.
Good song: “How We Drift Away” by Tim Heidecker and Weyes Blood
Some works of art deliver penetrating observations of human nature. Some grapple with cosmic mystery. Few manage to do both at once.
How to merge multiple Git repos and keep their commit history
I wanted to merge several different repos into a single monorepo, while preserving their commit histories. Here's how I did it.
The books I read in 2022
I leaned toward novels this year, while belatedly picking up some older non-fiction titles that had been on my to-read list for some time.
Denyse Thomasos at the AGO
An absorbing posthumous retrospective introduced me to an artist whose vision was all the more thrilling for being completely unexpected.
The Age of Participation
Ode to a free T-shirt — and the extremely specific political and cultural moment it stood for.