Border Radius on an Outline in CSS

February 20th 2023

Yesterday I was fiddling with the site adding a button to copy code blocks to the clipboard. While I was doing that I figured I'd also add a border to both proper code blocks and to inline code blocks... read more

Copy Code Blocks

February 19th 2023

I've been reading Bryce Wray's site for a little while. Its been interesting watching Bryce switch back and forth between Hugo and Eleventy / 11ty. Keeping both in sync feature wise. Just recently Bryce did a post about adding Code for Copying Code in Eleventy... read more

Site transitioned from Jekyll to 11ty

January 26th 2023

After numerous hours / days of hacking (much more than I care to admit), I have moved the blog from Jekyll to the static site generator 11ty. All the while maintaining using the Jekyll theme Minimal Mistakes Theme... read more

Moving site from Jekyll to ???

January 21st 2023

Goal is that at some point in the not to distant future I will move the blog from Jekyll & the Minimal Mistakes Theme to something built with 11ty. Part of this is to reduce things I need to think about... read more

What happens when I finish a Frontend Mentor Challenge (or how I build and deploy an 11ty site)

October 15th 2022

I've been doing challenges from Frontend Mentor as a means to practice frontend web development. Specifically working with plain HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Rather than just take the simple route of a Git repo per challenge... read more

A short look back on my Camino de Santiago journey

May 27th 2020

A year ago tomorrow I began the most gruelling, yet immensely satisfying, journey of my life. I set off from my home in Buchholz in der Nordheide Germany, to fly to France to walk the Camino de Santiago... read more

Learning Web Development

April 20th 2020

I mentioned in the goals post, one of the things I am aiming to do is to start learning web development. I was well aware that what falls under the banner of web development is massive, I just hadn't realised quite how large it was... read more