Archive

07.11.2024 What next

• cynicism,
• election,
• listening,
• politics,
• USA,

01.11.2024 Overheard on 7th

• aging,
• care,
• health,
• memory,
• mental health,

30.10.2024 Hello again

• Bronx Zoo,
• family,
• NYC,
• parenting,
• this site,
• work,
• zoo,

18.10.2024 A postponed postpartum story

• birth,
• Brooklyn,
• children,
• ER,
• health,
• hospital,
• labor,
• mental health,
• postpartum,
• preeclampsia,

06.05.2024 Shower thought on trust

• mental health,
• relationships,
• trust,
• vulnerability,
• work,

18.04.2024 “When we simplify complex systems, we destroy them”

• diversity,
• ecosystems,
• infrastructure,
• Internet,
• maintenance,
• rewilding,
• standards,
• to read,

20.03.2024 Team retreat at the Eames Archives and Ranch

• agriculture,
• Ambrook,
• Bay Area,
• California,
• Charles Eames,
• Eames,
• Eames Archives,
• Eames Institute,
• failure,
• Letterform Archive,
• Petaluma (CA),
• Ray Eames,
• Richmond (CA),
• sheep,
• sustainability,
• Temple Grandin,

12.03.2024 Still whitecaps

• ocean,
• plane,
• whitecaps,

28.02.2024 WordPress and AI, womp womp

• AI,
• capitalism,
• Tumblr,
• WordPress,
• WordPress.com,

28.02.2024 Inexactly benchmarking Eleventy vs Astro build times

• Astro,
• benchmarking,
• development,
• Eleventy,
• Markdown,
• static site generators,
• work,

19.02.2024 Dia Beacon visit

• art,
• Dan Flavin,
• Dia Beacon,
• Louise Bourgeois,
• New York,
• Rita McBride,
• sculpture,

16.02.2024 “…who am i? why have you brought me in to this world?”

• Brooklyn,
• existential crisis,
• NYC,
• Prospect Park,
• snow,
• snowman,
• winter,

16.02.2024 “‘AI’ is pretty much just shorthand for mediocre”

• AI,
• average,
• mediocrity,
• technology,
• to read,

01.02.2024 Visit the Eames Archives

• Charles Eames,
• development,
• Eames,
• Eames Institute,
• Ray Eames,
• website,
• work,

26.12.2023 On the second day of Christmas…

• Christmas,
• illness,
• parenting,
• toddlers,

18.12.2023 Bell ringing as abstraction, exercise, and communion

• bells,
• community,
• England,
• English Change Ringing,
• exercise,
• math,
• music,
• NYC,
• rope,
• UK,

13.12.2023 Some thoughts about making a Donald Judd-esque table

• DIY,
• Donald Judd,
• furniture,
• Judd Foundation,
• table,
• wood,

11.12.2023 Color contrast tools to check against APCA

• accessibility,
• APCA,
• color,

03.12.2023 New role, big emotions, top of the tops

• Eames,
• Eames Institute,
• tops,
• toys,
• winter,
• work,

11.11.2023 Probably more than you ever wanted to know about this site

• interview,
• Manuel Moreale,
• this site,

05.11.2023 “When the blazing sun is gone”

• concert,
• Kronos Quartet,
• Laurie Anderson,
• lullabies,
• music,
• NYC,

05.11.2023 “an example of how wonder and humility can build up in the same way as toxins in nature and in ourselves”

• Carnegie Hall,
• Hamza El Din,
• Kronos Quartet,
• music,
• NYC,
• Rachel Carson,

05.11.2023 Chicken tinga recipe

• chicken,
• chipotles,
• cooking,
• dinner,
• food,
• Mexican,
• recipes,
• stew,

04.11.2023 ◯

• maintenance,
• Ursula K. Le Guin,
• ◯,

31.10.2023 Visiting Storm King

• Andy Goldsworthy,
• art,
• sculpture,
• Storm King,

27.10.2023 Oh deer. Or elk?

• elk,
• found images,

27.10.2023 SUCCESSFUL Adventures in setting up ActivityPub + Webfinger on a Flywheel-hosted WordPress site

• ActivityPub,
• caching,
• Fastly,
• Fediverse,
• Flywheel,
• hosting,
• Mastodon,
• Webfinger,
• WordPress,

26.10.2023 Adventures in setting up ActivityPub + Webfinger on a Flywheel-hosted WordPress site

• ActivityPub,
• Fediverse,
• Flywheel,
• hosting,
• Mastodon,
• Webfinger,
• WordPress,

25.10.2023 “Power and safety are not the same thing”

11.10.2023 @piperhaywood.bsky.social

• Bluesky,
• Mastodon,
• RSS,
• social media,

20.09.2023 Thoughts on search, AI as a rubber duck, and this blog

• AI,
• ChatGPT,
• Google,
• Maggie Appleton,
• podcasts,
• rubber duck,
• search results,
• ShopTalk Show,
• this site,
• Transplaining with Jordan Gray,

11.09.2023 Dave Rupert’s animation-timeline example

• animation,
• animation-timeline,
• CSS,
• progressive enhancement,
• scroll,

11.09.2023 Current listening: “Transatlanticism”

• current listening,
• Death Cab for Cutie,
• high school,
• memories,
• music,
• nostalgia,
• Postal Service,

08.09.2023 Like the time I canoed into a tree full of spiders

• found images,
• tree,
• water,

08.09.2023 “And the monster on the bus says I’m gonna scare you”

• dancing,
• Jonathan Richman,
• music,
• toddlers,

08.09.2023 ooh.directory

• archive,
• blog,
• personal site,

23.08.2023 Manifesting cake

• birthdays,
• cake,
• children,
• parenting,
• toddlers,

23.08.2023 “Kill your personas”

• accessibility,
• design,
• engineering,
• personas,
• testing,
• work,

22.08.2023 GDS’s Accessibility Personas

• accessibility,
• design,
• engineering,
• GDS,
• personas,
• testing,
• work,

17.08.2023 A long-overdue work update

• engineering,
• engineering management,
• job,
• layoffs,
• SuperHi,
• tech,
• work,

27.07.2023 Family recipe for classic white frosting

• baking,
• cake,
• dessert,
• family,
• family recipes,
• frosting,
• Grandma Piper,
• recipes,

24.07.2023 Not a baby anymore

• babies,
• childhood,
• family,
• parenting,
• toddlers,

24.07.2023 Family recipe for white layer cake 🎂

• baking,
• cake,
• dessert,
• family,
• family recipes,
• Grandma Piper,
• Grandpa Piper,
• recipes,

24.07.2023 “I have a bad feeling `//about this. I’m not sure I like the idea that I’m not unique.`”

• AI,
• GitHub Copilot,
• writing,

24.07.2023 Favorite season

• seasons,

30.05.2023 Knotty thoughts

• crafts,
• hobby,
• knots,

28.04.2023 Grandma Piper’s Cheesecake recipe(s)

• baking,
• cake,
• cheesecake,
• dessert,
• family recipes,
• Grandma Piper,
• recipes,

28.04.2023 Grandma Piper’s Strawberry Shortcake 🍓 recipe

• baking,
• cake,
• dessert,
• family recipes,
• Grandma Piper,
• recipes,
• strawberries,

28.04.2023 Grandma Piper’s Ice Cream Cake 🍦 recipe

• cake,
• dessert,
• family recipes,
• Grandma Piper,
• ice cream,
• recipes,

28.04.2023 We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming

26.04.2023 Why can’t you show AM/PM time on an iPhone?

• accessibility,
• Apple,
• design,
• family,
• Grandpa Piper,
• iOS,
• iPhone,
• memory,

10.03.2023 How to make around 40 applesauce and oatmeal mini-muffins with a 1½-year-old

• applesauce,
• baking,
• muffins,
• oats,
• parenting,
• raisins,
• recipes,

04.03.2023 Moody tree

• family,
• Stanza Stones,
• travel,
• tree,
• Yorkshire,

06.02.2023 High speed warehouse

• black and white,
• found images,
• motion,
• warehouse,

06.02.2023 The serial (“Oxford”) comma and screen readers

• accessibility,
• content,
• Oxford comma,
• punctuation,
• screen reader,
• writing,

03.02.2023 NOW v7: More of the same

• now,
• this site,

01.02.2023 Winter cherry tree

• ASCII,
• Brooklyn,
• Brooklyn Botanical Garden,
• HTML Energy,
• tree,

31.01.2023 Tasty tree

• bird,
• Brooklyn,
• Brooklyn Botanical Garden,
• crabapple,
• NYC,
• tree,
• woodpecker,

30.01.2023 What a cake

• baking,
• cake,
• chocolate,
• coffee,
• family,
• family recipes,
• friends,
• frosting,
• honeycomb,
• recipes,

26.01.2023 “But still, you’ll live there beside the ocean”

• David Naimon,
• Molly Gloss,
• poetry,
• practice,
• Ursula K. Le Guin,
• writing,

25.01.2023 Oh to be a kid floating in a kidney-shaped pool

• blue,
• California,
• found images,
• pink,
• pool,
• water,

25.01.2023 No more unravelled TP

• is this my life now,
• parenting,
• tips,

24.01.2023 Balance brushing

• balance,
• health,
• memory,

21.01.2023 Mainly female mice in space

• female,
• mice,
• science,
• space,

21.01.2023 Norovirus postmortem

• illness,
• norovirus,
• parenting,

21.01.2023 Reading recs from Gem

• books,
• fiction,
• nonfiction,
• to read,

16.01.2023 How I thoroughly clean Jellycat stuffed animals

• cleaning,
• parenting,
• stuffed animals,

16.01.2023 RSS category links and an attribution policy

• policy,
• RSS,
• this site,

12.01.2023 WAI’s `alt` Decision Tree

• accessibility,
• alt text,
• development,
• images,

11.01.2023 What to do if Command + R won’t reload your VSCode window

• development,
• shortcut,
• VSCode,

04.01.2023 Three sherry-and-rum-based cocktails

• alcohol,
• Campari,
• cocktail,
• drink,
• drinks,
• eggs,
• gin,
• holidays,
• lemon,
• Negroni,
• recipes,
• rum,
• sherry,

04.01.2023 New Kobo, more illness, intentions

• family,
• illness,
• intentions,
• to read,

01.12.2022 If I had to guess, I’d say Carson Valley

• desert,
• found images,
• landscape,
• snow,

29.11.2022 Thanksgiving 2022 notes

• baking,
• cooking,
• cornbread,
• cranberries,
• dinner,
• family,
• food,
• holiday,
• pies,
• recipes,
• Thanksgiving,
• turkey,

17.11.2022 “Good enough for now, and safe enough to try”

• decisions,
• Gemma Copeland,
• governance,
• groups,
• mental health,
• sociocracy,

17.11.2022 To read: 2015 essay from the lead of Twitter’s Engineering Effectiveness group

• engineering,
• Ruby on Rails,
• tech stack,
• Twitter,

16.11.2022 READING LIST from the Glasgow Women’s Library

• clothing,
• design,
• feminism,
• Glasgow,
• to read,
• women,

15.11.2022 “BE SOMEONE ELSE !”

• Blackbird Spyplane,
• identity,
• self,
• style,

15.11.2022 Ghost leaves

• autumn,
• Brooklyn,
• concrete,
• leaves,
• NYC,
• walk,

11.11.2022 Covid still sucks

• brain fog,
• Covid,
• illness,

09.11.2022 Walk on beach

• beach,
• found images,
• ocean,
• photo,
• sea,

07.11.2022 Interested in an instance

• decentralization,
• independent web,
• Mastodon,
• social media,
• social networks,

10.10.2022 An important memory, gone

• childbirth,
• memory,

16.09.2022 To read: Rest of World

• anything but the West,
• journalism,
• tech,
• technology,
• to read,

15.09.2022 Like a cat

• animals,
• family,
• parenting,
• talking,

15.09.2022 “Like a poet writing thrillers”

• fiction,
• Javier Marías,
• thriller,
• to read,

03.09.2022 Salty skin

• beach,
• ocean,
• swimming,

29.08.2022 “I feel like my lounge is going to tip over”

• lockdown,
• pandemic,
• poetry,
• Tim Key,
• to read,
• UK,
• writing,

28.08.2022 Memory dump

• accessibility,
• art,
• Claire McCardell,
• individualism,
• kindness,
• memory,
• Meno’s Paradox,
• mental health,
• process,
• React,
• Roni Horn,
• social media,
• to do,
• to read,
• Werner Herzog,
• ◯,

29.07.2022 First trip to the UK

• family,
• pandemic,
• sheep,
• travel,
• UK,
• Yorkshire,

08.07.2022 How and why I stopped freelancing

• employment,
• freelancing,
• job,
• stress,
• SuperHi,
• work,

08.07.2022 Sally Schneider’s improvisation archive

• author,
• blog,
• cookbook,
• cooking,
• improvisation,
• Sally Schneider,
• to read,

08.07.2022 Ursula K. Le Guin on menopause

• age,
• feminism,
• identity,
• menopause,
• menstruation,
• old age,
• Ursula K. Le Guin,
• women,

30.06.2022 One person’s abortion story

• abortion,
• children,
• discrimination,
• Equal Rights Amendment,
• equality,
• family,
• feminism,
• law,
• politics,
• pregnancy,
• USA,
• women,

30.06.2022 Hitting your creative stride in your 70s

• age,
• art,
• artists,

28.06.2022 Against cynicism

• children,
• cynicism,
• hope,
• mental health,
• Nick Cave,
• politics,

22.06.2022 First trip to Michigan

• bubble,
• cottage,
• family,
• holiday,
• lake,
• Lake Michigan,
• Midwest,
• swimming,
• travel,
• trees,

17.06.2022 Fried sweet plantains

• plantains,
• recipe,
• vegan,

25.05.2022 The best first birthday present

• death,
• guns,
• politics,
• violence,

06.05.2022 My custom bash prompt

• coding,
• command line,
• development,
• settings,
• terminal,

05.05.2022 Brooklyn blossom

• blossom,
• Brooklyn,
• NYC,
• spring,
• tree,
• white,

04.05.2022 Success does not mean forever

• failure,
• job,
• relationships,
• success,

04.05.2022 Circle vs line

• ◯,

27.04.2022 Baby Anthropométry

• art,
• babies,
• painting,
• Yves Klein,

26.04.2022 NOW v6: End of an era, in Brooklyn, Covid *still* a thing

• now,
• this site,

21.04.2022 How to fix our chairs

• chairs,
• DIY,
• furniture,
• repair,
• wood,

17.04.2022 A Brooklynite birdie

• bird,
• bird call,
• bird song,
• birding,
• Brooklyn,
• NYC,
• spring,

15.04.2022 One way to fall asleep

• childhood,
• falling asleep,
• family,
• memory,
• sleep,

08.04.2022 Before and after in GitHub activity

• career,
• GitHub,
• parenting,
• work,

08.04.2022 Discovering agency

• agency,
• babies,
• childhood,
• identity,
• learning,
• parenting,

24.02.2022 Field recording: Harmonica and a playground

• Brooklyn,
• clouds,
• field recording,
• harmonica,
• helicopter,
• NYC,
• playground,
• trees,
• winter,

20.02.2022 Belonging

• belonging,
• community,
• happiness,
• identity,
• maintenance,
• mental health,
• parenting,
• service,
• social media,
• ◯,

15.02.2022 Sam’s flapjack recipe

• baking,
• family,
• family recipes,
• flapjack,
• oats,
• recipes,

14.02.2022 “I think crypto…is an amplifier”

• blockchain,
• crypto,
• decentralization,
• NFTs,
• to read,
• Web3,
• Zora,

12.02.2022 Current listening: “I, Jonathan”

• current listening,
• good vibes,
• Jonathan Richman,
• music,
• to listen,

11.02.2022 Homework from Larry

• Alice Neel,
• book,
• Brooklyn,
• film,
• NYC,
• Octavia E. Butler,
• Thomas Nast,
• to listen,
• to read,
• to watch,
• Ursula K. Le Guin,

11.02.2022 10 years ago

• anniversary,
• family,
• friends,

07.02.2022 DIY sea salt spray for hair

• beauty,
• DIY,
• hair,

27.01.2022 A few more grays

• aging,
• appearance,
• beauty,
• hair,
• identity,
• stress,

26.01.2022 Fluid type sizes and spacing

• CSS,
• design,
• development,
• Sass,
• spacing,
• typography,
• websites,
• work,

26.01.2022 “I’m using a kind of primitive hypertext”

• hypertext,
• Octavia E. Butler,
• science fiction,
• to read,

13.01.2022 Mini snowman

• Brooklyn,
• NYC,
• Prospect Park,
• snow,
• snowman,
• winter,

12.01.2022 First snow

• Brooklyn,
• Christmas,
• family,
• friends,
• mental health,
• New York,
• NYC,
• NYE,
• pandemic,
• snow,

19.12.2021 More plans cancelled

• Christmas,
• family,
• pandemic,
• travel,

16.12.2021 Cutting out the noise

• current events,
• filtering,
• mental health,
• social media,
• stress,

08.12.2021 Fluffy Prospect Park clouds

• Brooklyn,
• clouds,
• NYC,
• Prospect Park,
• sky,
• walk,
• walking,
• winter,

08.12.2021 Keeping up with fuzz head

• identity,
• learning,
• parenting,
• sleep,

06.12.2021 TIL about the U.S.’s 22-year HIV travel ban

• AIDS,
• HIV,
• pandemic,
• politics,

22.11.2021 Parental half-life

• age,
• aging,
• family,
• identity,
• parents,

18.11.2021 Leave a stone unturned

• art,
• CSM,
• music,
• work,

17.11.2021 4+ month update

• breastfeeding,
• health,
• identity,
• mental health,
• parenting,
• postpartum,
• pumping,
• work,

17.11.2021 CSS blend modes: beware the stacking context

• blend mode,
• color,
• CSS,
• development,
• gradient,
• mix-blend-mode,
• websites,
• work,

10.11.2021 Many me-s

• London,
• me,
• Musarc,
• music,
• rehearsal,
• V&A,

24.09.2021 Dried mango superpow(d)er

• cooking,
• curry,
• food,
• mango,
• spices,

23.09.2021 CA → NY

• Brooklyn,
• California,
• family,
• moving,
• New York,
• NYC,
• San Francisco,

23.09.2021 How to keep herbs 🌿 in the fridge for more than a few days

• cilantro,
• food,
• herbs,
• mint,
• parsley,
• rosemary,
• storage,
• thyme,

15.09.2021 Corners

• diaper changing,

04.09.2021 Lullabies

• lullabies,
• music,
• singing,
• songs,

03.09.2021 To listen: Pamela Z

• album,
• experimental music,
• music,
• Pamela Z,
• San Francisco,

02.09.2021 First walk

• beach,
• California,
• family,
• Montara,
• ocean,
• walk,
• walking,

10.08.2021 Gemma’s site in AIGA Eye On Design

• AIGA,
• Arena,
• development,
• Eleventy,
• personal site,
• website,
• work,

10.08.2021 NOW v5: He’s here

• now,
• this site,

09.08.2021 A new chapter

• birth,
• family,
• identity,
• parenting,
• pregnancy,
• work,

21.06.2021 An endless loop

• design,
• environment,
• identity,
• ontological design,
• philosophy,

21.06.2021 “Who gets to be a revolutionary?”

• baking,
• care,
• identity,
• mental health,
• women,
• ◯,

21.06.2021 Updates to v-fonts.com

• ExpressionEngine,
• fonts,
• talk,
• TypeLab,
• Typographics,
• variable fonts,
• websites,

18.06.2021 Sass + Eleventy, remember to opt out of using .gitignore

• debugging,
• development,
• Eleventy,
• Sass,
• websites,
• work,

04.06.2021 Lemon Olive Oil Cake & Bosworth Jumbles (links)

• baking,
• cake,
• lemon,
• recipes,

04.06.2021 Failures, low moments

• failure,
• Internet,
• low moments,
• mental health,

03.06.2021 Two articles on SPA or SPA-like sites vs alternatives

• development,
• JavaScript,
• React,
• SPAs,
• Vue,
• websites,
• work,

01.06.2021 “I hope I’m pleasing David”

• Grayson Perry,
• identity,
• portraiture,

25.05.2021 “we will be making marmalade”

• death,
• ethics,
• family,
• grief,
• health,
• pandemic,
• to read,

19.05.2021 To read: “Making Space: Women and the Man-Made Environment” by Matrix

• architecture,
• cities,
• feminism,
• to read,
• women,

17.05.2021 Some long-winded thoughts on privacy policies and consent popups

• analytics,
• CCPA,
• data,
• GDPR,
• policy,
• privacy,
• websites,
• work,

14.05.2021 “I firmly believe in stressing the *fun* in *fun*gi”

• books,
• California,
• cookbooks,
• foraging,
• fungi,
• mushrooms,
• Pacific Northwest,
• to read,

12.05.2021 Music notation software

• LilyPond,
• music,
• notation,
• software,
• StaffPad,

07.05.2021 Identity wrangling

• emotion,
• health,
• identity,
• low moments,
• mental health,
• pandemic,
• pregnancy,
• self,
• Stanza Stones,
• wobble,

26.04.2021 Edit your hosts file on a Mac to spoof DNS changes

• command line,
• development,
• DNS,

25.04.2021 To read: “On Immunity” by Eula Biss and “Pond” by Claire-Louise Bennett

• Claire-Louise Bennett,
• creativity,
• domesticity,
• Eula Biss,
• pregnancy,
• to read,

22.04.2021 Encounter with vaccine hesitancy

• pandemic,
• public health,
• San Francisco,
• vaccine,

22.04.2021 A little more on Rietveld’s crate furniture, discovering Louise Brigham’s earlier box furniture, and thoughts about the purpose of a blog

• Alice Rawsthorn,
• architecture,
• design,
• DIY,
• furniture,
• Gerrit Rietveld,
• Joan Didion,
• Louise Brigham,
• this site,
• to read,
• women,
• wood,
• woodworking,

20.04.2021 Bay trees and blackberry thorns

• California,
• Dipsea Trail,
• flowers,
• foraging,
• Marin County,
• plants,
• Stinson Beach,
• trees,
• walk,

19.04.2021 How to make a Rietveld-esque crate stool / table

• design,
• DIY,
• furniture,
• Gerrit Rietveld,
• me,
• seating,
• stool,
• wood,
• woodworking,

15.04.2021 General maintenance tips for website owners

• backups,
• hosting,
• maintenance,
• security,
• websites,
• work,

07.04.2021 Second dose

• booster,
• me,
• pandemic,
• Pfizer,
• San Francisco,
• vaccine,

19.03.2021 Maintenance is everything

• identity,
• maintenance,
• manifesto,
• opinions,

18.03.2021 Little San Franciscan plants

• aquatic plants,
• California,
• duckweed,
• Garden of Fragrance,
• green,
• little plants,
• plants,
• pond,
• San Francisco,
• San Francisco Botanical Garden,
• water,

18.03.2021 First day of the rest of my life

• pandemic,
• Pfizer,
• pregnancy,
• San Francisco,
• vaccine,

11.03.2021 Dev environment issue related to MySQL and missing OpenSSL v1.0.0 symlink

• development,
• error,
• MySQL,
• OpenSSL,
• work,

11.03.2021 it’s a wild world

• career,
• creativity,
• identity,
• philosophy,
• purpose,
• social media,

23.02.2021 NOW v4: Big personal news, frustrations about current events, a tiny bit of hope

• family,
• now,
• pregnancy,
• this site,

18.02.2021 Lichens are not plants

• fungi,
• lichen,
• little plants,
• plants,

18.02.2021 Field recording: White noise and snow

• birds,
• field recording,
• mountains,
• Nevada,
• snow,
• Spooner Lake,
• trees,
• walk,
• white noise,

12.02.2021 “It is also difficult to express the full magnitude of our disinterest in passing some Internet Randolorian’s ‘free speech’ litmus test”

• election,
• free speech,
• NearlyFreeSpeech,
• politics,
• this site,
• USA,
• web hosting,

11.02.2021 Lemon drizzle cake

• baking,
• cake,
• family,
• family recipes,
• lemon,
• recipes,

09.02.2021 To read: “Maintenance and Care” by Shannon Mattern for Places

• article,
• care,
• code,
• decay,
• dust,
• infrastructure,
• maintenance,
• politics,
• Shannon Mattern,
• to read,
• Ursula K. Le Guin,
• ◯,

03.02.2021 Questions and questionable answers on the blockchain and cryptocurrencies

• Bitcoin,
• blockchain,
• climate change,
• cryptocurrency,
• cryptography,
• decentralization,
• digital divide,
• economy,
• Ethereum,
• finance,
• NFTs,
• tech,

02.02.2021 Growing up in a DDT dumping ground

• California,
• DDT,
• environment,
• home,
• ocean,
• Palos Verdes,
• pollution,
• Torrance,

28.01.2021 To read: “Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country” by Cristina Rivera Garza

• books,
• border,
• Mexico,
• politics,
• to read,
• violence,

26.01.2021 A lifetime ago

• me,
• New Orleans,

25.01.2021 To read: “Beowulf”, translated by Maria Dahvana Headley

• books,
• classics,
• to read,

19.01.2021 Field recording: White noise and whimbrels

• birds,
• California,
• field recording,
• ocean,
• Pacifica,
• walk,
• waves,
• whimbrels,
• white noise,

13.01.2021 Current listening: “The Best of the Alessi Brothers”

• current listening,
• good vibes,
• music,
• to listen,

13.01.2021 Current listening: “From Scotland with Love”

• current listening,
• King Creosote,
• music,
• Scotland,
• to listen,

12.01.2021 The many ways you might be wrong about Section 230

• free speech,
• Internet,
• law,
• politics,
• Section 230,
• USA,

07.01.2021 Well, that was expected

• election,
• low moments,
• politics,
• USA,

02.01.2021 First Christmas at home

• Christmas,
• family,
• holidays,
• pandemic,
• recipes,

26.12.2020 Little Oaklander plants

• California,
• foliose lichen,
• green,
• lichen,
• little plants,
• log,
• Oakland,
• plants,
• Redwood Regional Park,
• walk,

18.12.2020 Use a VPN when you search for recipes

• baking,
• cooking,
• VPN,

16.12.2020 Fix for overflow at top / bottom of screen when using CSS Scroll Snap

• CSS,
• CSS Scroll Snap,
• development,
• overflow,
• scrolling,
• websites,

14.12.2020 Anemones and rock slides

• Agate Beach,
• beach,
• California,
• ocean,
• tide pools,
• walk,

10.12.2020 How to embed an Are.na channel using an `iframe` in HTML

• accessibility,
• API,
• Arena,
• embed,
• HTML,
• website,

03.12.2020 Current listening: “Black Prince Fury//Jet Black Raider” by Anna Meredith

• Anna Meredith,
• current listening,
• music,
• to listen,

02.12.2020 Disabling “save to Pinterest”

• copyright,
• development,
• media,
• Pinterest,
• website,

24.11.2020 Single `mv` command to change all filenames in directory to lower case and replace spaces

• command line,
• development,
• UNIX,

05.11.2020 What it was like being a poll worker

• California,
• election,
• pandemic,
• politics,
• USA,

03.11.2020 upon us

• election,
• politics,

02.11.2020 Current listening: “My Finest Work Yet” by Andrew Bird

• Andrew Bird,
• current listening,
• music,
• to listen,

30.10.2020 Current listening: “Funkify Your Life” by The Meters

• current listening,
• funk,
• music,
• The Meters,
• to listen,

27.10.2020 Thoughts on LAMP vs JAMstack content management systems

• Airtable,
• CMS,
• Craft CMS,
• Eleventy,
• headless,
• Jamstack,
• Kirby CMS,
• LAMP,
• PHP,
• Sanity,
• serverless,
• static,
• Vue,
• WordPress,

23.10.2020 dandilion sketch

• dandilion,
• drawing,
• flower,
• ink,
• plants,
• sketch,

23.10.2020 “the mystic mouth / leaves me so defted”

• John Cage,
• minimalism,
• music,
• poetry,
• Susumu Yokota,
• to listen,
• to sing,
• UbuWeb,

22.10.2020 Link: Cyberfeminism Index

• feminism,
• Rhizome,
• technology,

20.10.2020 Unlocking new skill: photos thru binos

• animals,
• binoculars,
• birds,
• Carson Valley,
• cow,
• Nevada,
• quail,

18.10.2020 A bold little lizard

• animals,
• Carson Valley,
• Clear Creek Trail,
• desert,
• lizards,
• Nevada,
• reptiles,
• walk,

15.10.2020 “What if he did? What if he didn’t? / What if the world was made of pudding?”

• animation,
• music,
• spider,
• to watch,

14.10.2020 NOW v3: Adjusting to US life, fires in CA, poll worker training

• now,
• this site,

13.10.2020 More books for the never ending list

• books,
• city,
• copyright,
• fiction,
• identity,
• morality,
• nonfiction,
• philosophy,
• politics,
• progress,
• tech,
• to read,
• UbuWeb,

09.10.2020 Current listening: “Playing Piano for Dad” by h hunt

• calm,
• current listening,
• h hunt,
• music,
• piano,
• to listen,

08.10.2020 Some thoughts after finishing CA poll worker training

• pandemic,
• politics,
• USA,

02.10.2020 can v. should

• desire,
• need,
• purpose,
• work,

01.10.2020 Just what I needed

• California,
• Clark’s Hole,
• holiday,
• river,
• swimming,
• walk,

10.09.2020 aaronzlewis.com

• API,
• Arena,
• blog,
• developers,
• Jekyll,
• personal site,
• static,
• website,

09.09.2020 So dark

• clouds,
• fire,
• San Francisco,
• smoke,
• to listen,

08.09.2020 Now online: Open-weather

• CSS,
• development,
• Google Forms,
• Google Sheets,
• HTML,
• Open-weather,
• Our Networks,
• weather,

03.09.2020 Removing whitespace from around an SVG in Inkscape

• Inkscape,
• reference,
• SVG,

02.09.2020 buuuhhhhhhhh?

• pareidolia,
• San Francisco,
• tree,

02.09.2020 On personal sites, and adios analytics

• analytics,
• data,
• identity,
• Matomo,
• personal site,
• this site,
• websites,

01.09.2020 Good Mediterranean recipe combo

• aubergine,
• bell pepper,
• chickpeas,
• garlic,
• hummus,
• Mediterranean,
• Middle Eastern,
• mint,
• onion,
• recipes,
• tahini,
• vegan,
• vegetarian,

01.09.2020 Slideshow butterfly

• anxiety,
• butterfly,
• dream,
• friends,
• memories,

21.08.2020 Decentering Whiteness in Design History, an annotated bibliography in progress

• BLM,
• design,
• ethics,
• identity,
• race,
• to read,

07.08.2020 say ahhhhhhhhhhh

• blue,
• face,
• googly eyes,
• pareidolia,
• walk,

03.08.2020 Applied to be poll worker

• pandemic,
• politics,
• USA,

01.08.2020 I can see u

• beach,
• binoculars,
• California,
• Marin County,
• me,
• walk,

29.07.2020 “All of time / Is right here / Is right now” 🌈

• current listening,
• Dan Deacon,
• electronic music,
• music,
• optimism,

27.07.2020 Plastic-free mascara

• beauty,
• eyes,
• low-waste,
• makeup,
• plastic-free,

24.07.2020 Open source tools for multi-source and cross-format academic publishing

• books,
• development,
• epub,
• footnotes,
• HTML,
• Manifold,
• Markdown,
• open source,
• publishing,
• research,
• tools,

24.07.2020 RSS on the fritz

• Commonplace theme,
• development,
• PHP,
• RSS,
• this site,

24.07.2020 How I handle timeframes and scheduling ⏳

• admin,
• development,
• freelancing,
• scheduling,

23.07.2020 First swim in the Pacific in… 10? 15 years?

• Baker Beach,
• ocean,
• San Francisco,
• swimming,
• walk,

22.07.2020 Command to delete all `node_modules` directories

• command line,
• development,
• storage,

22.07.2020 “I propose to take our countrymen’s claims of American exceptionalism seriously”

• BLM,
• documentary,
• ethics,
• identity,
• pandemic,
• patriotism,
• politics,
• property,
• protest,
• race,
• reparations,
• Ta-Nehisi Coates,
• to read,
• to watch,
• USA,

21.07.2020 “You are a nesting doll. All the people you have been before are still inside you.”

• desire,
• identity,
• Kleroteria,
• language,
• mimesis,
• philosophy,

21.07.2020 Finding the rhythm

• exercise,
• moving,
• pandemic,
• routine,
• WFM,

20.07.2020 Commonplace WordPress theme

• Bec Worth,
• Commonplace Book,
• Commonplace theme,
• CSS,
• design,
• development,
• HTML,
• PHP,
• this site,
• WordPress,

11.07.2020 Sunny side smile

• bacon,
• breakfast,
• eggs,
• pareidolia,

10.07.2020 I CAN HAVE CHEESE

• cheese,
• dairy,
• food,
• low lactose,

03.07.2020 You are your environment

• home,
• identity,
• mental health,
• pandemic,
• San Francisco,

02.07.2020 How I handle proposals 🧐

• admin,
• development,
• freelancing,
• proposals,
• work,

02.07.2020 How I handle rates, pricing, and invoicing 🤑

• admin,
• development,
• freelancing,
• pricing,
• rates,
• work,

30.06.2020 “But really, Reiner thinks the secret to a long life is ‘having something to do in the morning’, and these two men are proof of this maxim.”

• comedy,
• friendship,
• Guardian,
• Hadley Freeman,
• interview,
• Mel Brooks,
• Rob Reiner,

28.06.2020 Tom Hackshaw’s site

• Eleventy,
• personal site,
• Portfolio Starter,

27.06.2020 Artist Helena García Hermida’s diary

• artists,
• blog,
• Cargo,
• painting,
• personal site,
• website,

27.06.2020 Independent live music venues in San Francisco

• live music,
• music,
• San Francisco,

25.06.2020 Hannah’s Rietveld crate chair and other DIY furniture

• chair,
• design,
• DIY,
• friends,
• furniture,
• Gerrit Rietveld,
• reuse,
• scraps,
• wood,
• woodworking,

24.06.2020 “Keep your eyes on the skies and your butt close to home”

• birding,
• birds,
• feminism,
• friends,
• San Francisco,

18.06.2020 Sorting out WordPress error “Updating failed. Error message: The response is not a valid JSON response”

• development,
• error,
• PHP,
• WordPress,

17.06.2020 Rosemary’s memories of SF

• California,
• cocktail,
• drinks,
• family,
• family recipes,
• friends,
• gin,
• recipes,
• San Francisco,

16.06.2020 WordPress “Upgrade database” process hangs on Laravel Valet

• database,
• development,
• Laravel Valet,
• PHP,
• WordPress,

16.06.2020 A lone cyclist on the highway

• BLM,
• cycling,
• protest,
• San Francisco,

10.06.2020 NOW v2: Moved to SF, not much else b/c pandemic

• now,
• this site,

09.06.2020 Field recording: Trees and birds

• birds,
• face the sky,
• field recording,
• spring,
• trees,
• walk,
• Yorkshire,

08.06.2020 Anddddd here we go

• CCPA,
• data,
• Internet,
• policy,
• privacy,
• spam,

08.06.2020 Ottolenghi’s black pepper tofu

• black pepper,
• recipes,
• tofu,
• vegetarian,

08.06.2020 Landed in SF

• California,
• emigration,
• home,
• immigration,
• moving,
• pandemic,
• San Francisco,

07.06.2020 “Notes from No Man’s Land”

• essay,
• identity,
• nonfiction,
• race,
• to read,

03.06.2020 Have to do better

• BLM,
• ethics,
• identity,
• politics,
• protest,
• race,
• to read,

20.05.2020 Crabbing with Nan-Nan

• crabbing,
• family,
• Hilton Head,
• Nan-nan,

11.05.2020 Flagstones

• flagstones,
• Ilkley Moor,
• nature,
• quiet,
• stones,
• walk,
• Yorkshire,

08.05.2020 NOW v1: Hunkered down in Yorkshire, prepping for US move

• now,
• this site,

04.05.2020 Ramps and Dryad’s Saddle

• food,
• foraging,
• fungi,
• plants,
• walk,
• woods,
• Yorkshire,

01.05.2020 “A person is only a coder as much as you are an InDesign-er or Microsoft Word-er”

• coding,
• CSS,
• HTML,
• learning,
• resource,
• students,

28.04.2020 A livestream on livestreaming

• Internet,
• livestreaming,
• performance,
• remote work,

27.04.2020 New digs, again

• clouds,
• home,
• pandemic,
• Yorkshire,

27.04.2020 Make a PDF looked like a scanned doc using ImageMagick

• code,
• command line,
• ImageMagick,
• PDF,

24.04.2020 Use Portfolio Starter to create a personal site with projects, pages, and posts

• blog,
• development,
• Eleventy,
• GitHub,
• Netlify,
• portfolio,
• starterkit,
• tutorial,
• websites,

24.04.2020 Mix-and-match grain salad

• recipes,
• salad,
• vegetarian,

17.04.2020 Baaaaaaaaaaaa

• charcoal,
• drawing,
• sheep,
• sketch,
• walk,
• Yorkshire,

13.04.2020 Added layers to my hair

• hair,
• pandemic,
• wellbeing,

12.04.2020 Easter 1992

• California,
• Easter,
• family,
• twins,

11.04.2020 A damn fine margarita

• cocktail,
• drinks,
• friends,
• recipes,
• tequila,

11.04.2020 Forget-me-not

• blue,
• flowers,
• Forget-me-nots,
• green,
• nature,
• pandemic,
• plants,
• walk,
• Yorkshire,

08.04.2020 CSS note-to-self: `position:fixed;` is not respected within transformed block elements

• CSS,
• development,
• layout,
• transform,
• websites,

08.04.2020 Instagram be GONE

• archives,
• Instagram,
• social media,
• this site,
• video,

07.04.2020 A web color space that respects *real* lightness

• color,
• CSS,
• development,
• LCH,
• this site,
• web,
• website,

02.04.2020 San Francisco Art Institute is closing

• art,
• California,
• painting,
• pandemic,
• San Francisco,
• school,
• SFAI,

31.03.2020 don’t worry be happy

• choir,
• Musarc,
• pandemic,
• performance,
• rehearsal,
• Zoom,

28.03.2020 Feet on the ground, head in the sky

• exercise,
• health,
• horse,
• mental health,
• nature,
• pandemic,
• walk,
• Yorkshire,

26.03.2020 Sharp and Rough

• hills,
• nature,
• pandemic,
• sheep,
• sky,
• walk,
• Yorkshire,

25.03.2020 Digital coffee 🤖☕️

• coffee,
• pandemic,
• talk,
• technology,
• website,

21.03.2020 New neighbours

• life,
• London,
• moving,
• pandemic,
• WFH,
• working from home,
• Yorkshire,

15.03.2020 Pantry Parkin

• baking,
• pandemic,
• parkin,
• recipes,
• use-up-all-the-things,

15.03.2020 packing, selling, dissolving

• belongings,
• health,
• home,
• London,
• low moments,
• mental health,
• mood,
• moving,
• pandemic,
• plants,
• public health,

12.03.2020 Leek and potato soup with smoked paprika and toasted fennel seed

• gluten free,
• lactose free,
• recipes,
• soup,
• vegan,
• vegetables,
• vegetarian,

12.03.2020 Moving your email from one host to another

• DNS,
• email,
• hosting,
• SPF,
• web,

08.03.2020 Oatmeal streusel muffins

• baking,
• muffins,
• oats,
• recipes,

03.03.2020 drastic nostalgia

• California,
• childhood,
• nostalgia,

03.03.2020 Overheard on the 73, “it’s just one of those things”

• feminism,
• London,
• overheard,
• women,

03.03.2020 Fine art pricing guidelines from 2011

• art,
• CSM,
• fine art,
• money,

25.02.2020 Clouds

• aerial,
• blue,
• clouds,
• nature,
• sky,

24.02.2020 Little Londoner plants

• green,
• lichen,
• little plants,
• London,
• moss,
• plants,
• walk,

16.02.2020 Where are the non-English programming languages? Thoughts prompted by a small but mighty bug

• code,
• coding,
• CSS,
• graphic design,
• HTML,
• language,
• LCC MA GMD,
• teaching,
• workshop,

15.02.2020 Getting STRONG

• body,
• bodyweight exercises,
• CSS,
• exercise,
• fitness,
• health,

05.02.2020 Using CSS, HTML, and maybe a little logic to display images with a consistent surface area

• code,
• CSS,
• development,
• HTML,
• website,

21.01.2020 It’s just a jump to the left

• programming,
• time,
• Y2038,

20.01.2020 feministopensource.group

• development,
• ethics,
• feminism,
• Internet,
• open source,
• open source investigation,

17.01.2020 Flourless peanut butter cookies

• baking,
• cookies,
• gluten free,
• lactose free,
• peanut butter,
• recipes,

14.01.2020 Selecting open, free, or commons licenses for content and code

• code,
• copyright,
• Creative Commons,
• development,
• GNU,
• law,
• open source,

12.01.2020 Ceramic cat by a young David Hockney

• art,
• artists,
• cat,
• ceramic,
• David Hockney,
• sculpture,
• Yorkshire,

09.01.2020 Recipe for Toll House chocolate chip cookies

• baking,
• chocolate,
• cookies,
• recipes,
• Toll House,

09.01.2020 Switching from Google Analytics to Matomo (f.k.a. Piwik) on WordPress

• analytics,
• CSS,
• development,
• GDPR,
• HTML,
• JavaScript,
• Matomo,
• privacy,
• this site,
• tracking,
• website,
• WordPress,

08.01.2020 The youngest lifeboat crew rescue airmen

• boat,
• rescue,
• sea,
• Whitby,
• Yorkshire,

07.01.2020 Sandsend → Whitby

• beach,
• friends,
• holidays,
• other half,
• Sandsend,
• sea,
• travel,
• walk,
• Whitby,

07.01.2020 To read: “The Ego and Its Own” by Max Stirner

• books,
• ego,
• identity,
• philosophy,
• to read,

06.01.2020 “it is possible to imagine [a critical sensibility] in which social paranoia is not foundational”

• ethics,
• mental health,
• politics,
• press,
• social media,

25.12.2019 The CD-ROM tree

• CD-ROM,
• Christmas,
• decoration,
• family,
• holiday,
• Internet Archive,
• memories,
• ornament,
• reuse,

19.12.2019 Chocolate crackle cookies recipe

• baking,
• chocolate,
• cookies,
• recipes,

19.12.2019 @JustSaysOnReddit

• news,
• politics,
• social media,

18.12.2019 “Political rewilding” vs. libertarianism, and attempting to escape the barrel with Mastodon

• cynicism,
• ideology,
• Mastodon,
• news,
• politics,
• social media,

17.12.2019 Date-based colour

• color,
• design,
• development,
• JavaScript,
• this site,
• to read,
• website,

17.12.2019 “I don’t think we know how to separate when we’re feeling pity and when we’re feeling inspiration.”

• accessibility,
• design,
• disability,
• Internet,
• philosophy,
• to read,
• to watch,

14.12.2019 “It’s a magical kind of sadness, saying goodbye. A bit like preparing to travel again, but no longer together.”

• death,
• family,
• grief,
• health,
• loss,

12.12.2019 Sharing a big, sensitive file with someone nearly 5,000 miles away

• Beaker,
• Dat,
• Internet,
• open web,
• P2P,
• security,
• sharing,

11.12.2019 Kołaczki recipe

• baking,
• cookies,
• family,
• family recipes,
• Grandma Piper,
• holidays,
• Poland,
• recipes,

10.12.2019 Low-stakes escapism

• escapism,
• free time,
• health,
• hobbies,
• low moments,
• mental health,

08.12.2019 time, scratching, snow, and white noise

• art,
• choir,
• LCMF,
• London,
• Musarc,
• music,
• singing,
• time,

06.12.2019 Lemon-glazed Pierniczki recipe

• baking,
• citrus,
• cookies,
• gingerbread,
• holidays,
• lemon,
• Poland,
• recipes,
• spices,

05.12.2019 Notes from MozFest 2019

• decentralization,
• design,
• development,
• ethics,
• Internet,
• interoperability,
• London,
• MozFest,
• Mozilla,
• open source,
• open web,

05.12.2019 gemmacope.land

• API,
• Arena,
• code,
• development,
• Netlify,
• personal site,
• static,
• website,

29.11.2019 1979 to 2012 on 70,000+ VHS tapes

• activism,
• archives,
• documentary,
• feminism,
• Internet Archive,
• television,
• to watch,
• women,

28.11.2019 Slow Radio from the BBC

• BBC,
• radio,
• sound,
• to listen,

24.11.2019 Everything we had for Thanksgiving

• baking,
• cooking,
• cranberries,
• FODMAP,
• food,
• gluten free,
• lactose free,
• recipes,
• Thanksgiving,
• vegetarian,