Collecting: thoughts
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First day, first commute.
🤔️ My first day back into the Clearleft office was made all the more easier with an almost-off-road commute through the South Downs. Splendid!
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Introducing Eleventy to an eleven-year-old
🤔️ Spent a couple of hours blowing the mind of an eleven-year-old with Eleventy layout and partial includes. Lots of ear-to-ear grins and excited squeaks. Kudos to @andy@bell.bz for making his Eleventy From Scratch resource available for free. Granted it’s a few years old but has explained the few concepts I need really well. Looking forward to porting my own site to Eleventy over the Christmas break.
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Goodbye engagement vanity metrics
🤔️ One thing I’m really enjoying about the Mastodon reading experience is the concealment of a post’s engagement vanity metrics. With the number of Boosts, Favourites, Bookmarks and to some degree replies all hidden at the feed level, I find I focus more on the content.
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Teaching how to fish
🤔️ I spent some of yesterday afternoon teaching my son some very basic principles of HTML and CSS. The delight on his face when he figured out where he was going wrong and fixed a few bugs by himself.
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In search of a simpler Twitter experience
🤔️ Inspired by @craigmod’s tweet about using Twitter’s search to improve the experience I had a bit of a play myself.
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We Got Homebrew Covered
🤔️ An evening of beer @eleven_ty and music covers
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Homebrew Webify Top
🤔️ A long overdue, refreshing Homebrew to counter the current scorching heat
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Omni-cancel
🤔️ I’ve just been told about of a great experience using a taxi service telephone channel
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Homebrew Tags
🤔️ Twisting off the lid of my website and adding tags at Homebrew Website Club
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Home-brew
🤔️ Home-brewing - Adding @clagnut’s hyphenation and other offline enhancements
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Offline Homebrewing
🤔️ Going Offline - Adventures online/offline at the rebooted Homebrew Website Club @clearleft
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Homebrewing Again
🤔️ Homebrewing again - Attempting an automated POSSE webmention via brid.gy at tonight’s Homebrew Website Club
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You’re the designer, isn’t this your job?
🤔️ You’re the designer, isn’t this your job? - Thoughts on collaborative UX + Dev sessions
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Smartphone vs Dumbphone - where’s the middle ground?
🤔️ Is going “full dumbphone” really necessary? Here’s my thoughts on dumbing down the smartphone
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Taking time to form a writing habit
🤔️ I’m taking time out to write in hopes of forming a healthier habit
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Shared understanding - Keeping your assumptions in check
🤔️ Build better shared understanding by leading from a macro to micro level
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HTML Prototyping 101 - Offline Mode
🤔️ HTML Prototyping 101 - Build with the assumption you’ll be demoing them without an internet connection
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Jekyll collections are hard
🤔️ After muddling along for a few hours with Jekyll collections, I now have a home for my thoughts and links. Now to #POSSE #indieweb