Blog
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Deconstructing these auto-generated OG images
May 7, 2026 · A walk through the build-time plugin that gives every blog post here its own social-share image.
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Three years in on the 11ty Bundle
May 4, 2026 · The 11ty Bundle site launched on May 1, 2023. Here's a recap of the past year.
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Changing how I deploy my Eleventy sites
Apr 30, 2026 · I'm using Cloudflare's Wrangler utility to deploy my Eleventy sites.
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North Bay Python 2026 - Afterthoughts
Apr 27, 2026 · I had the awesome pleasure of both attending and speaking at the 2026 version of North Bay Python, and I came away changed.
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How I've been using AI
Apr 23, 2026 · I've been using AI quite a bit this year. Here's what I've managed to do.
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Site redesign progress
Mar 24, 2026 · A peek into the current state of the redesign of this site
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A post I didn't want to have to write
Feb 23, 2026 · If I can prevent hate from entering our community, I will.
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Seeking RSS feeds, favicons, and descriptions
Feb 1, 2026 · Useful resources to help you add visible RSS links, favicons, and web page descriptions.
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Cache-busting that CSS & JS
Jan 28, 2026 · The saga continues...now we cache-bust those CSS and JS references.
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On not minifying CSS & JS (part 2)
Jan 27, 2026 · So this is how I am now not minifying CSS and JS bundles in 11ty.
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Minify those CSS & JS bundles? Maybe not.
Jan 26, 2026 · I saved a ton on site build time by not minifying CSS & JS...YMMV.
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11ty Bundle Redesign Survey
Nov 11, 2025 · If you work with 11ty and make use of the 11ty Bundle website, we're redesigning it and we'd love your input. Please the take the survey.
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Sounds of the Pacific
Oct 2, 2025 · At the beach today, I captured 2 minutes of waves crashing on the shore.
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Yes, racism still exists in the US
Sep 28, 2025 · Please watch this video and reflect on its message.
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Where do the red and blue colors on this site come from?
Sep 27, 2025 · I chose these colors based on an old personal preference.
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Fetching a JSON file from GitHub at build time in Eleventy
Sep 25, 2025 · Today I learned how to fetch a raw JSON file from GitHub at build time in Eleventy. Here's how I did it.
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CSS Class Dismissed?
Sep 20, 2025 · Rethinking how I use CSS classes in my projects.
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Organizations that I'm supporting
Sep 13, 2025 · I am supporting two organizations that address issues important to me.
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August 1, 2025 is a mixed bag
Jul 29, 2025 · I've got mixed feelings about the coming August 1st. Here's why...
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What was I thinking? Posts, Notes, & TILs?
Jul 20, 2025 · Why did I make posting more complicated than it needed to be?
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Got stickers?
May 27, 2025 · You can now get a 11ty Bundle sticker!
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Zottman curls? I had not heard of these.
May 19, 2025 · Curiosity about these curls led me to try them.
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Who knew that '/' does 'search in page' on Firefox?
May 18, 2025 · Since I implemented pressing the '/' key to put focus in the search bard on on the 11ty Bundle site, I learned something.
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1 + 1: Celebrating 2 years of the 11ty Bundle
May 1, 2025 · 11tybundle.dev is 2 years old. Here are some highlights of the last year.
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A keystroke to place focus in the search box
Apr 26, 2025 · How I mimicked the GitHub page functionality of typing a slash key to place focus in the search box.
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Fitness is not a project
Apr 25, 2025 · Us project-oriented folks like to see things as come to an close. Sadly, fitness is not one of those kinds of projects.
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The personal effects of NIH funding cuts
Apr 17, 2025 · Losing my dad too soon and later scientific breakthroughts that would have saved him.
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Empathy is NOT a weakness, Elon!
Mar 31, 2025 · Cory Booker is the antidote to the deeply misguided Elon Musk.
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Music as a pain reliever, post-op
Mar 26, 2025 · I've discovered that listening to music is a marvelous way to reduce pain sensation after knee replacement surgery.
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YACCB - Yet Another Copy Code Button
Mar 23, 2025 · After reading of the usefulness of a 'copy code' button, it was time to add one here.
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If you're considering knee replacement surgery
Mar 13, 2025 · Here are a couple of resources that have helped me to prepare for knee replacement surgery.
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Adding tags to my home page
Mar 3, 2025 · I added tags to my home page to make the site's content more discoverable.
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A node script to create new entries
Feb 7, 2025 · I made a node script to create new entries for this site. It's up on GitHub.
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Sia taught me about lite youtube embeds
Feb 6, 2025 · While I have only one YouTube video on this site, I wanted to make it more performant. Sia Karamalegos taught me how to do that.
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The Endless Summer - The Perfect Wave
Feb 6, 2025 · This movie came out just when I became interested in surfing. I absolutely love this clip.
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11ty Meetup - How I built my Books page
Feb 6, 2025 · I presented at the 11ty Meetup on how I built my Books page. Here's the video and a link to a PDF of the slides.
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Ok, this is my 'final' final word on RSS entry IDs
Feb 2, 2025 · I've been able to fully automate the process of creating, at initial post time, a unique and permanent ID for each RSS feed entry.
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What the fuck is happening in our country?
Feb 1, 2025 · We're on the cusp of a serious decline of the country. We all need to remain aware of what's going on.
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If this was happening in a foreign country
Feb 1, 2025 · How US media would talk about this if it was happening in a foreign country
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I wanted to validate the presence of an rssid in my front matter
Feb 1, 2025 · Rather than have my RSS entry ID be missing, I wanted to validate its presence at build time.
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Prepare for a minor flood of RSS entries
Jan 31, 2025 · I have changed the way that I create IDs in my RSS feeds. As a result, there will be a flood of new entries in your feed reader.
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My last word on RSS entry IDs
Jan 30, 2025 · In an effort to create more robust and truly unique and permanent IDs for my RSS feed entries, I built a thing to help.
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Creating quasi-permanently unique entry IDs for RSS
Jan 27, 2025 · I was inspired to create permanently unique entry IDs for my RSS feed after reading a post by Evan Sheehan.
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Much more to come on RSS entry IDs
Jan 26, 2025 · I made the effort to adjust how I create ids for each entry in my RSS feeds. There's a fuller blog post in the works.
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On RSS entry IDs
Jan 25, 2025 · Evan Sheehan has a great post about why using the URL for a post for its RSS ID is not a good idea.
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Today I Learned, Linked, or Loved
Jan 25, 2025 · Initally a 'note', this is now the first entry in my 'TIL' page for things that I have Learned, Linked, or Loved..
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11ty Bundle Moved to Cloudflare
Jan 25, 2025 · I've bitten the bullet and moved the 11ty bundle from Netlify to Cloudflare Pages.
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I might make a Today I Learned / Linked section
Jan 20, 2025 · I'm considering making a Today I Learned / Linked page. Inspired by Simon Willison's link blog.
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Blog Questions Challenge
Jan 20, 2025 · I've been tagged to answer the big blog questions of the day. Here goes.
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Playing Poosticks
Jan 16, 2025 · We played Poohsticks on this bridge today.
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Music is replacing my self-talk
Jan 15, 2025 · Ever since I started listening to music while working out, I've noticed that my self-talk has been replaced by the songs I listen to.
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Number 24, a powerful WW II movie
Jan 6, 2025 · We watched Number 24 on Netflix. It was a very moving portrayal of an incredibly brave Norwegian.
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How I built the Books page
Jan 2, 2025 · I went live with my Books page a short while ago. Here's how I built it.
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I'm really not enjoying these afib episodes
Dec 28, 2024 · I had my 7th afib episode of 2024. It took longer that usual to convert back to normal sinus rhythm. I'm really not enjoying these afib episodes.
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Look Ma, I've styled my RSS feed
Dec 26, 2024 · I'd seen this done by several people and decided to give it a go.
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No cochlear implant...yet
Dec 26, 2024 · Due to the lack of Medicare coverage for single-sided deafness, I've opted out of getting a cochlear implant.
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Final Christmastime Fiddling
Dec 24, 2024 · I spent the last several days fiddling with this site. I changed the microBlog terminology to call them notes and I built a bookshelf page.
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Trying to develop a new reading habit
Dec 21, 2024 · My book reading has been all over the map. I'm going to try to develop a more consistent habit.
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This site now lives on Cloudflare
Dec 19, 2024 · I migrated this site to Cloudflare to reduce the bandwidth demands on my Netlify account. Details later.
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Migrating this site to Cloudflare
Dec 16, 2024 · Netlify surprised me with a bandwidth notice, so I've decided to move this site to Cloudflare.
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Tagging posts and 'futzing' with my site
Dec 8, 2024 · I've spent some time adding some more descriptive tags to my posts. I call this phase of blogging "futzing."
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Going all in with 'native' markdown
Dec 3, 2024 · I've been typing way too much. There are simpler ways to use markdown for images and tables of contents. Here's how I'm doing it.
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Knee replacement 2.0, things have changed
Dec 1, 2024 · I had my right knee replaced four years ago. In March 2025, I will have my left knee replaced. What has changed? With me and with the technology of knee replacements.
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Happy Thanksgiving 2024
Nov 27, 2024 · Wishing everyone a happy Thanksgiving. Be safe, be grateful and enjoy the day.
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A tweak to how I use Pagefind
Nov 27, 2024 · I use the Pagefind package to add search to my personal site. It was returning way too many result for simple words. I made a small tweak to fix that.
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Is there an echo in here?
Nov 26, 2024 · I'm trying out Robb Knight's Echofeed service
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Eleventy transform speeds local development...a lot!
Nov 24, 2024 · I just converted all the images on my site to use the Eleventy Transform capability in v3.0.0 and wow did it slash my local build times.
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What will I do next among the many things I want to do?
Nov 23, 2024 · I've got a lot of things I want to do, but I can't do them all at once. What will I do next?
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I'm finally unvexed by microblog post dates
Nov 23, 2024 · I recently had a problem on this here microblog. It has to do with dates. But it's all ok now.
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My circle of friends on Bluesky
Nov 23, 2024 · There's a very cool service called Skircle that generates an image of your circle of friends on Bluesky. Here's mine.
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Issue 61 is shaping up
Nov 18, 2024 · We're still in Italy, but Issue 61 of the 11ty Bundle is shaping up to be a doozy.
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We're in Italy at the moment
Nov 14, 2024 · Vacationing in Italy has its upsides, especially following the US election.
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The day after...and we're in Italy
Nov 7, 2024 · The day after the election. The results are in. The country is divided. The future is uncertain. And we're in Italy.
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Anxiety officially reduced
Nov 5, 2024 · After an eventful day, I'm feeling much better...for several reasons.
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I'm currently anxious about way too many things
Nov 4, 2024 · On the eve of the election and international travel, I'm worried about a lot of stuff.
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Is it really a new design?
Nov 2, 2024 · I've "redesigned" my personal site.
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The first microBlog post
Nov 2, 2024 · I've set up a microBlog on the site and this is the first post in it.
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My letter to President Biden
Jul 3, 2024 · I wrote this letter to President Biden to express my thoughts on his candidacy for the office of President in 2024.
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Upgrade 11ty to v3, reorg, ESM, and debug
Jun 28, 2024 · I upgraded to 11ty v3 and proceeded to debug.
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Got RSS Feeds?
Jun 11, 2024 · How I search for, and find, RSS feeds, programmatically.
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The node CLI scripts of my dreams
Jun 5, 2024 · I built a few node CLI scripts to support management of the 11ty Bundle site database.
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My hearing loss journey...consider a cochlear implant?
May 17, 2024 · I'm considering getting a cochlear implant after having lost hearing in my left ear 9 years ago.
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The 11ty Bundle continues - A year in review
May 1, 2024 · The 11ty Bundle website launched one year ago today. I'm still doing it.
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Time-lapse gym construction
Mar 15, 2024 · Way back in 2005-06, I helped a young school generate a time-lapse video of the construction of their new gymnasium. It was a fun project and I'm glad to have been a part of it.
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Refactoring by shortcode
Feb 19, 2024 · I decided to take on some overdue refactoring of the 11tybundle.dev site. Here's what I did.
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Slashing by caching
Jan 31, 2024 · I've reduced the build time for the 11ty Bundle site from 30 seconds to 10 seconds. Here's how.
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One amazing sunset
Jan 29, 2024 · Last night's sunset was amazing.
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Declassifying my site header
Jan 26, 2024 · I've been reviewing my html and css and decided to remove unnecessary classes from my header.
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Adding webmentions to my site
Jan 13, 2024 · I had told myself that I wouldn't do this...but, seeing them on other people's sites changed my mind.
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My defaults are my faults
Dec 24, 2023 · Welcome to my list of defaults!
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Adding pagefind to my Eleventy personal site
Dec 6, 2023 · I've been wanting to add search functionality to this site for a while. Pagefind made it simple.
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Generating the Firehose page on the 11tybundle site
Nov 21, 2023 · Here's how the Firehose page of the 11tybundle.dev site is built.
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Pagination in a Javascript template with Eleventy
Oct 31, 2023 · Here I use a javascript template to generate json data files for selected categories of the 11tybundle.dev site.
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Scratch that...use the Google Sheets API
Oct 30, 2023 · Just generating a json file from Google Sheets was not good enough. I had to use the API.
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From Airtable to Google Sheets with Some AI
Oct 17, 2023 · From paid to free, I've moved the 11tybundle.dev data from Airtable to Google Sheets.
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Finding an exercise regimen that sticks
Oct 16, 2023 · At 68 years old, it was high time to find an exercise regimen that I could stick with...at least for a while.
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Question...how to count outbound links and saving that count
Jun 4, 2023 · I'm in search of a solution to add outbound link tracking to my site for use as a post popularity indicator.
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The 11ty Bundle - Issues 1 - 4
May 15, 2023 · These have been moved to 11tybundle.dev.
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The evolution of my CSS pipeline in Eleventy (part 2)
Mar 26, 2023 · Evolution is a continuous phenomenon.
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The evolution of my CSS pipeline in Eleventy (part 1)
Mar 14, 2023 · Handling CSS in Eleventy has been an evolutionary experience.
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My first 30 days of learning to play the piano
Feb 4, 2023 · A brief dive into my journey...with a few stats and a couple of (bad) audio clips.
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Learning to play the piano
Jan 23, 2023 · It's time for a new learning experience. So this year, I decided to learn to play the piano.
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My winding road toward knee replacement surgery
Dec 28, 2022 · Seeking to buy time as I prepare for what seems to be inevitable…knee replacement surgery.
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I left Twitter
Dec 26, 2022 · I left the dumpster fire that is Twitter a couple of weeks ago.
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Losing my brother to cancer
Apr 26, 2022 · Feelings of pain, fond memories, and odd coincidences keep me connected to the brother I lost to cancer.
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This never happened, but...
Apr 2, 2022 · The following recounts a very real dream/nightmare that I had in the early morning hours of Jan 4, 2022.
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From all Open Props to only Open Props I use
Mar 8, 2022 · Got Open Props working on my site, but wanted to reduce the size of my CSS in production.
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Dipping my toe in the Open Props water
Feb 22, 2022 · I saw the recent launch of Open Props and watched an intro video. I was intrigued, so I dipped my toe in the water.
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Calculating reading time for a post
Feb 6, 2022 · Where does that '3 minutes to read' come from?
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Is this thing on?
Feb 5, 2022 · Welcome to the first post of my new site!