Just finished adding webmentions to my blog and now I'm already neck deep into building a comments system using Akismet and CloudFlare Turnstile to fight spam. Can't beat a cozy coding Sunday!

POV: it's 2016 and I don't have a beard yet.

Ice cream date night in the car with my love Azure

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!