Imaginary Conversations
One of the things that has helped my mental health is recognizing all of the imaginary conversations that I have. Full blown arguments that get me angry and frustrated and at the end of the day, the only person involved in those conversations is me. Each time I notice that I’m doing this to myself, I start to say in a sing-song way, “you’re having an imaginary conversation!” Best to pu...
Recently Read
I don’t consider myself an avid reader. Sometimes I go months without reading a book. I have been in a season of reading, engaging my brain in a different way. As I get back into writing more, it’s a delight to read those who write well. (And perhaps frustrating to come across a book that isn’t written well.) On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous The last handful of books I’ve read mus...
Jungle
Every now and then, an album just really hits the spot. Most of my music recommendations come in through TikTok these days and the latest video from Jungle, Back on 74, has spawned a rabbit hole of videos that I refuse to swipe past. I watch every one. So enamoured, I downloaded Jungle’s album, Volcano, and then discovered that they have a nearly 50 minute movie that puts the music to an i...
A Home For My Photos
Years ago, I wanted to showcase my photography outside of Flickr or Instagram and figured I could integrate it into this very blog. Unfortunately, the backend that I built didn’t make it easy to post new photos. I had to upload the photo to a server somewhere, then go into the content management system and make my edits to point to those images. It was very much shoehorned in and reflected that ...
Not So Fast
“The industry changes so quickly! It’s hard to keep up with everything.” I’ve been mostly out of touch with the industry over the last couple years, only working on smaller front-end projects, and not really paying much attention to the firehose of web development content being put out there. What’s interesting is dipping my toes back into the stream and seeing that—despite a...
Vibing
I got into a bit of a rut where everything I listened to seemed to be garage rock from the early 2010s. (Or post-punk revival, or however you want to classify music.) The Black Keys, The White Stripes, Arctic Monkeys, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Franz Ferdinand. I didn’t listen to the radio anymore so I had little to no exposure to new music. Maybe a coffee shop or restaurant would be playing a track a...
Downtown Man
That’s what I am. I’ve gone camping. I’ve done resorts. I’ve been on cruise ships. They all range from “this is fine” to “why are we pretending to be in an episode of the Walking Dead?” I’m definitely a city boy, through and through, though. When I travel, it’s to other cities. It’s staying in the hustle and bustle, with people and museums and restaurants and shows. It...
Deploying an 11ty Site to GitHub Pages Using GitHub Actions
The last time I wrote about deploying to GitHub Pages, it was essentially a tutorial on how to use Travis CI for deployment to GitHub Pages. Travis, unfortunately, discontinued their free plan but GitHub Actions has become available and, for my needs, works just great. So, here’s how I set up my 11ty sites to deploy automatically to GitHub Pages. Workflows GitHub uses custom workflow...