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Hike
Today’s hike was more business than pleasure lol. I only had a few minutes of stopped time because some days you just need to get the miles in and grid it out.
POV: it's 2016 and I don't have a beard yet.
Ice cream date night in the car with my love Azure
Walk
Over the weekened Azure and I went for a walk around the neighborhood and saw some really fun and cute houses. It was nice to get outside despite it being cold! The sun felt increidble juxtaposed against the cold air.
I start a new job tomorrow at Filevine, and I’m more than a little excited. So excited, in fact, that it felt like the perfect excuse to finally upgrade my desk setup 📸
IKEA came through with the GLADHÖJDEN sit-stand desk, and Amazon handled the rest with a new keyboard, mouse, and monitor arm.
The last piece left is a chair. Something comfortable is next on the list, I just have not landed on the right one yet.
And just like that, one bug fixed, one test case created, and we have the 100th unit test for the software powering this blog 🎉
I'm implementing custom theme settings! This is something I had the idea for late one night last week. You define the settings you want in your theme's theme.json like this:
{
...
"settings": {
"fields": {
"accent_color": {
"type": "color",
"label": "Accent color",
"default": "#cc3f2e"
},
"background_color": {
"type": "color",
"label": "Background color",
"default": "#f8f4ef"
},
"max_width": {
"type": "string",
"label": "Layout max width",
"default": "72rem",
"help": "Used for the main content column."
}
},
"groups": [
{
"label": "Colors",
"fields": ["accent_color", "background_color"]
},
{
"label": "Layout",
"fields": ["max_width"]
}
]
}
}
The result is the UI you see above! Then they can be used your theme like this:
<style>
:root {
--accent: {{ theme.settings.accent_color|default:"#cc3f2e" }};
--bg: {{ theme.settings.background_color|default:"#f8f4ef" }};
}
</style>
This seems like a small feature but it gives users and theme devs a ton of flexibility! I'm exicted to someday see how people use it.
Azure and I bought this bookshelf wayyyyy back in December, but couldn't put it up until the Yule tree went away. We did that last weekend but finally had the energy to assemble the BILLY tonight.
It went together much easier than I expected, even for IKEA furniture. And I love how it came together!
I’ve been wanting a dead‑simple way to publish small personal sites on Neocities without build tools, databases, or plugins. Today I’m sharing Neo‑CMS — a tiny flat‑file CMS that renders Markdown right in the browser. The whole idea is: just files. Drop Markdown into /content, list those files in content/index.json, and add a little YAML front matter for titles, menus, and slugs. That’s it. No build step. No dependencies. No CLI. If you can edit a text file and upload it to Neocities, you ca...
Read moreI’ve been having a lot of fun the past few days building out my home server. It’s been a fun adventure revisiting old territory, and I wanted to take some time to write about the setup I’ve settled on for now. The core idea behind this setup is simple: the foundation should be well documented. That way, if I want or need to tear it all down, build a new server, and spin everything back up, I can do it with minimal effort. This setup definitely still has some rough edges, but what I have is so...
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