Fuck, I'm so sad to hear about the passing of Manchester legend Gary ‘Mani’ Mounfield. Listening to Fools Gold and remembering the seismic impact that track had on me the first time I heard it.

@endonend Hi Jason, is creating an RSS/JSON feed for individual users' Crucial Tracks something you already have or might consider doing? It's a bit of a selfish/lazy ask—I was thinking that way I might be able to automatically fetch my journal entries periodically and include them on my […]

On the theme of lifelong learning, today I discovered there's a turnip emoji. There's probably a course all about this on LinkedIn Learning, but I'm clearly not paying close enough attention. 🫜

Attention #11ty devs. usp=sharing&ouid with @damianwalsh#11tyon a redesign of the 11ty Bundle website. usp=sharing&ouid a survey to get your input. We’d love for you to fill it out. It's pretty short. Boosts appreciated […]

Alongside my own efforts to build a personal digital music library, I've been enjoying @endonend's Crucial Tracks project. Using it to create a journal and discover what others share has been fruitful. Hopefully a practice I can maintain. Sharing my latest entry here as it intersects with my […]

Hey @endonend really enjoying Crucial Tracks—using the prompts to think more deeply about my music and seeing others' public responses. I know I can create my own entries with custom prompts, but listening to Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out got me thinking: with all the remasters and rereleases featuring […]

Mind *still* buzzing after listening to @NicMakesStuff talk about using #11ty and web standards to power various aspects of a museum's digital infrastructure: signage, guides, etc. and the benefits this smart approach brought to the organisation and visitors […]

Anxiety dream: I go for a haircut, Mick Jagger (70s version) is the hairdresser. Between pulling faces and dancing in the mirror, he gives me a terrible, terrible mullet. I burst into tears so he reassures me everything can be fixed with the "product". This turns out to be Vaseline applied […]

Not sure who actually needs to know this, but today is going to be a good day. I have new vinyl to play (unbelievably the first new record I've gotten all year), oh and it's my birthday too.

Redid https://www.steele.blue's templating with VentoJS. Using it for site layout, with a smattering of WebC leaf components, is a hell of a combination. Thanks @chriskirknielsen for the inspiration and a great post on integrating with @11ty […]

The old web was decentralized: - Newsgroups - Personal Websites - Bulletin board - Email as a service, not a platform - Internet relay chat (IRC) - Early blogs Then corporations arrived with money and lock-in, turning the internet into centralized ad farms (Meta, X, TikTok). Users became […]

I can't afford new devices, so instead I decided to "treat" myself by installing iOS 26 and Tahoe last night. I know decision-making in orgs is torture, but seriously—if you picked almost anything in the new UI and compared it against what came before and asked "Is this better?" I can't see how […]

Building on lessons learned from my music collection project, I've created a digital bookshelf using Eleventy and the OpenLibrary API to organise my reading list. Many similar projects and write-ups already exist. This one just happens to be mine, and this article documents my personal approach. […]