Using the Eleventy Image plugin without a central image folder
Eleventy’s official image pre-processing plugin assumes you have a single folder with all your images in it. I needed something different, and this is how I did it.
Blog
Implementing dark mode, for real this time
I knew the basic theory of implementing a dark mode for my site. Making it actually work was a whole other thing.
The books I read in 2021
This year I went back to pick up some previous reads that I'd attempted and abandoned in the past. I'm glad I did!
How we rebuilt Shopify’s developer docs (again)
What we learned from the first year of running Shopify.dev, and what changes we made as a result.
Adventures in web archiving
Inside my 72-hour dash to preserve a complete digital snapshot of CanadianBusiness.com.
My year of Eleventy plugins
Exactly one year ago today, I published my first Eleventy plugin. Here are some of the things I’ve learned since then.
The books I read in 2020
You’d think the waking nightmares of 2020 would prompt more escapist reading, but instead I zagged toward nonfiction.
Embed Everything
I recently released a plugin for quickly embedding media in Eleventy sites. I think it has potential!
How we rebuilt Shopify’s developer docs
March 2025 I recently discovered that the Shopify UX blog was shut down and its archives are no longer online. So I'm updating this post with the full text of the original article. Many of the links are to the Wayback Machine, because Shopify.dev itself has changed a few times since I originally wrote this.
Rebasing against a feature branch with Git cherry-pick
Contributing to a feature branch that periodically gets rebased against master can lead to rebase hell. Here’s how to recover gracefully with `git cherry-pick`