Adventures in web archiving
Inside my 72-hour dash to preserve a complete digital snapshot of CanadianBusiness.com.
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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
For almost a year I’ve been working on a major project at Shopify and it’s finally out in the world: On February 12, we relaunched the platform’s developer documentation at Shopify.dev.
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`
Content strategy on the command line
Recently at work I had the opportunity to work on Shopify App CLI, a command-line tool to accelerate the development process for developers building on Shopify’s platform.
Create a dark mode with CSS Variables
CSS custom properties make it trivial to add multiple colour schemes to your project. Here’s a simple way to toggle dark mode with three lines of Javascript.
Getting Cron jobs to actually run
For years my Cron jobs wouldn’t run because I was misconfiguring my Crontab commands. Maybe you’re having the same problem.
Theatre in 2030
Theatre keeps fracturing and forking, so there is no coherent vision for theatre in 2030. Instead a thousand new genres are flourishing.