Links
A pile of links that I have found interesting for one reason or another.
This is meant to be a much more ephemeral feed than the others - posts may
disappear over time as they become less interesting to me.
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Jan 7, 2021, 1:31 PM -05:00 Hidde de Vries (@hdv@front-end.social) is a web enthusiast and accessibility specialist from Rotterdam (The Netherlands). He currently works with the NL Design System team and is a participant in the Open UI Community Group. Previously, he worked for W3C (WAI), Mozilla, the Dutch government and others as a freelancer. Hidde spoke at 64 events, most recently in Eindhoven, Netherlands. Buy me a coffee Follow @hdv on MastodonJan 3, 2021, 7:00 PM -05:00How I turned my Goodreads data into a self-hosted website with Eleventy
In the last week of 2020, I decided to export my Goodreads data to display it on my personal website. This post is about what I did and how. Screenshot Why export? First, I quite like Goodreads. It lets me see the reads of friends and acquaintances. It lets me share my own. This is all splendid, but it is still somebody else’s site. Somebody with very different life goals from my own, in fact. For more control on what I display and how, I decided to create a new section of this website ded... -
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Dec 27, 2020, 7:00 PM -05:00IndieWeb, Revisited
A couple of years ago I started building an IndieWeb website. Then I got painfully busy at work, stopped improving it, and basically ran out of free time to even post to it. Fast forward a couple of years, and I've got a new job that's somewhat more manageable, and during the holiday break I'm trying to get this thing going again. I've made a couple of changes: For the static site generator itself, I replaced Gatsby with Eleventy and am happier with it; it's basically just a pile of simple t... -
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Nov 28, 2020, 9:01 AM -05:00“Stupid light software”
Martin Tournoij wrote about “stupid light software”. When you try to be a bit too minimalistic with your software, it’s probably “stupid light software”.There’s also the concept of stupid light: when you save weight to the point of stupidity. You won’t be comfortable, you’ll miss stuff you need, your equipment will be too fragile and break.With software I most often go from “heavy” to “light”. First, I try to realize the features I need and then I try to optimize where possible. First, I will... -
Nov 22, 2020, 3:02 PM -05:00 The Organic Web
If we lived close to nature in an agricultural society, the seasons as metaphor and fact would continually frame our lives. But the master metaphor for our era does not come from agriculture—it comes from manufacturing. We do not believe that we “grow” our lives—we believe that we “make” them. Just listen to how we use the word in everyday speech: we make time, make friends, make meaning, make money, make a living, make love. — Parker Palmer, “Let Your Life Speak” (97) You know what else we... -
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Oct 22, 2020, 3:34 PM -04:00 Bookmark of https://obsidian.md/
@obsdmd
Obsidian - Sharpen your thinking
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Oct 17, 2020, 8:55 PM -04:00 Bookmark of https://jlelse.blog/links/2020/10/searchmysite/
Oct 17, 2020, 4:12 PM -04:00Search personal websites
Michael Lewis had a pretty great idea, he created a search engine for personal websites. I really like that idea because I like exploring personal websites and especially reading personal blogs. It’s always interesting to read about people’s thoughts, hobbies, lives, experiences and point of views.There are already a couple of resources to discover personal sites (like this, this or this), but having more is even better! Michael Lewis also wrote some background posts about creating this proje... -
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Sep 21, 2020, 8:41 PM -04:00 Bookmark of https://doubleloop.net/2020/09/21/7170/
Sep 21, 2020, 3:16 PM -04:00I finished A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers recently. I loved it. There’s something very lovely about Becky Chambers’ sci-fi – it’s much more touching and emotional than a lot that I’ve read. I felt quite emotional at the ending of this one – it’s so full of heart and compassion. -
Sep 13, 2020, 10:53 PM -04:00 Free Woodworking Plans to Build a Twin Low Loft Bunk Bed
The Design Confidential Free DIY Furniture Plans to Build a Twin Sized Low Loft Bunk Now, I am going to assume most of you have kiddos…or will have kiddos…or your kiddos have grown and have their own kiddos..either way I know this will excite you because the project I will share with you retails for more than $1300 when you add up all of the extras. Can I tell you how much I spent on this from start to finish? $118 TOTAL including an entire gallon of Zinc by Martha Stewart for H... -
Sep 7, 2020, 11:16 PM -04:00 Bookmark of https://jlelse.blog/dev/miniflux-blogroll/
Jul 9, 2020, 9:00 AM -04:00How my blogroll gets generated (now completely automatic!)
Yesterday I teased a new post about how I automated my blogroll generation by writing a Go script and using the Miniflux API. Here it is.Up until yesterday, I always updated my blogroll manually. I wrote about that process here. It was a bit of automation but not completely automated. I fixed that and now do what Robert van Bregt suggested or what Jan Boddez does with his WordPress plugin.To generate my site I use a self-hosted instance of Drone CI (I already wrote about that a few times) wit... -
Sep 7, 2020, 11:03 PM -04:00 Sep 5, 2020, 7:00 PM -04:00Things I Learned to Become a Senior Software Engineer
In 2018, I started working at Bloomberg. Things have changed a lot since. I’m not the most junior member in the company anymore and I’ve mentored quite a few new engineers, which has been amazing. It helped me observe how others differ from me, absorb their best practices, and figure out things I’ve unconsciously been doing pretty well. Yearly work reviews are a good way to condense these lessons I’ve learned. They’re valuable for pattern matching, too. Only when I zoom out do certain patte... -
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Aug 30, 2020, 11:30 AM -04:00Structured data for book reviews
Bookshelves crammed with lots of books Almost a week ago, I noted a blog post by Ana Ulin: Adding Structured Book Data to My Blog Posts. Ana added a section to the front matter of her book posts that contains information about the book in question, including her rating. She was kind enough to share her example and the partial template that displays the information on her site. Because I use Grav rather than Hugo as my CMS I couldn’t just steal Ana's template, but I was more than happy to ba... -
Aug 20, 2020, 8:41 AM -04:00 Bookmark of https://asoftmurmur.com/
A Soft MurmurA Soft Murmur
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Aug 4, 2020, 4:08 PM -04:00 Bookmark of https://vincentp.me/articles/2020/07/16/16-20/
From Indieweb Monolith to Microservices
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LogRocket Blog
A guide to theming in CSS - LogRocket Blog
This tutorial shows you how to create apps that are theme-aware using CSS variables and JavaScript to enable a better presentation. -
Aug 1, 2020, 12:45 PM -04:00 
The amazing power of service workers
Today, I want to talk about service workers: what they are, and when and why you’d use them I won’t be digging into code specifics today. This one is going to be a lot more high level that looks more at strategies and approaches. I will be sharing code details in some future articles. Let’s dig in. What is a service worker? A service worker is a special type of JavaScript file that browsers install and store locally. -
Jul 31, 2020, 4:15 PM -04:00 Interconnected, a blog by Matt Webb
How would I improve RSS? Three ideas
Posted on Wednesday 29 Jul 2020. 1,702 words, 7 links. By Matt Webb. -
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Gatsby
The World’s Sneakiest Route Change | Gatsby
The story of how we added dynamic filtering to an entirely statically-built Gatsby site. -
Jul 16, 2020, 2:15 PM -04:00 Bookmark of https://adactio.com/journal/17140
Jul 16, 2020, 10:45 AM -04:00Hey now
Progressive enhancement is at the heart of everything I do on the web. It’s the bedrock of my speaking and writing too. Whether I’m writing about JavaScript, Ajax, HTML, or service workers, it’s always through the lens of progressive enhancement. Sometimes I explicitly bang the drum, like with Resilient Web Design. Other times I don’t mention it by name at all, and instead talk only about its benefits. I sometimes get asked to name some examples of sites that still offer their core functiona... -
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Matthias OttMay 12, 2019, 7:05 AM -04:00Into the Personal-Website-Verse
Social media in 2019 is a garbage fire. What started out as the most promising development in the history of the Web – the participation of users in the creation of content and online dialogue at scale – has turned into a swamp of sensation, lies, hate speech, harassment, and noise. Your Unfriendly Neighborhood Craving for attention and engagement, our timelines have changed. Algorithms now prioritize content from people with a huge following and everything that is loud and outrageous. It’...
