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The Age of Participation

Ode to a free T-shirt — and the extremely specific political and cultural moment it stood for.

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.

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.