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Recreating Jekyll’s _drafts Directory in Eleventy
I’m in the process of converting a couple of sites that I built a few years ago using Jekyll to use Eleventy instead. Both tools are static site generators that work very similarly, but Eleventy gives me more flexibility and, given that it’s based in JavaScript—a language I use daily—rather than Ruby—a language I know […]
Dynamic Autocomplete with AlpineJS and (Almost) No Code
I’m in the process of adding some new features to a web application I created several years ago. It’s an app that makes it easy for a handful of non-technical users to manage users and groups in a third-party system. It’s a multipage app that doesn’t use a lot of JavaScript, but where it does […]
I’m An Engineer
From time to time when I was a kid, my grandparents would take me to Santa’s Land, a Christmas themed theme park in southern Vermont. On one of those trips, I remember buying a mechanical Christmas tree toy in the gift shop. The tree was made of three aluminum triangle-ish segments that were mounted to […]
My Decision to Move to US Mobile: Nine Months In
About nine months ago it was time for new phones, and I decided that it was also a good time to leave Verizon after being a Verizon post-paid customer for probably 15 years. The Verizon network is the best bet in this area, especially in the more rural areas I often visit (or at least […]
The Samsung Desktop Experience
I stumbled on this Gizmodo article last night and learned something about my phone that I didn’t know. Apparently every Samsung phone (at least in the Galaxy series) since the Galaxy S8 has a feature built into it called DeX, or the Desktop Experience, that allows you to use the device as a desktop by […]