Riley takes aim at the behaviorist logic hiding inside design’s vocabulary of conversion and engagement, and argues that autonomy, competence, and relatedness—not dopamine hacking—are the legitimate ends of product design.
How to pair blit's browser-based terminal streaming with moo's local-first agent workbench for remote development, 11ty site work, and accessible document and transcript conversion.
Build Awesome alpha.10, a five-site Pagefind metasearch, faster builds, chasing four 100s in PageSpeed, and a Cloudflare cache lesson.
Notes from using the @11ty/font-awesome plugin while migrating a site from Jekyll to Build Awesome, including the small CSS and icon-class fixes that made the SVG output behave.
A review of Leon Niemoczynski's Speculative Realism: An Epitome, tracing realism after Kant, correlationism, and the movement's contested legacy anew.
A practical guide to publishing new Eleventy blog posts to status.lol with GitHub Actions, the omg.lol API, and a small durable state file.
Comparing Xmit to Netlify, Vercel, and Render for static site hosting: simple GitHub Actions deploys, easy redirects, and refreshingly little platform overhead.
A detailed implementation note on adding FAIR Signposting, per-page Schema.org metadata.json files, Zotero metadata, and citation automation across Eleventy and Jekyll sites.
Notes on moving a podcast site from Eleventy 3 to Build Awesome alpha, using Nunjucks v4 full async, shrinking Cloudflare _headers, and cutting deploy time from about 59 seconds to about 31 seconds.
A practical Mac command line workflow for turning high-resolution PNG scans into searchable OCR PDFs with img2pdf and OCRmyPDF.
Warren Throckmorton argues the “Christian nation” founding is a myth that fuels real politics today. A review of his case, his seven myths, and its limits.
How I added webmentions to my Eleventy site with Bridgy, webmention.io, a GitHub Action, and Netlify — coding in public, mistakes and all.