CSS Naked Day
In which I attempt to remove the CSS from this site, and find some bugs
Caro FYI
Writings by Caro Appleby - indie programmer, textile artist, musician, endlessly curious
Latest posts
Delta of the defaults
Updates to my list of default apps as I go into 2025
Spelling is hard
An adventure in configuring automated tooling to catch spelling mistakes in my website
My default set of Phoenix UX helpers
Little things I add into most of my Phoenix projects to improve some user experiences
Tabular Numbers are a thing!
A thing which I didn't know I needed, for making things like timestamps line up nicely
Just Do Something
The productivity advice I needed right now emerges from my RSS feeds
Work in progress is waste
Unless the thing you made is in use, it has no value
In search of a calm tech stack
In which I discuss the technology choices for a side project
My hammock must contain yarn
Exploring how yarn helps me think
On tiny tools and tea menus
A short tour of a tiny, very niche side project
Hello, WeblogPoMo 2024!
I got excited about the idea of #WeblogPoMo2024 , so I guess I’d better get my weblog up and running! WeblogPoMo, or Weblog Posting Month, is a month-long blogging challenge running in May 2024. It comes from @anniegreens and I discovered it via the awesome omg.lol service. I always like the idea of doing a streak-based challenge, but I’m also terrible at actually keeping going with them. Maybe…
My app defaults in 2024
Jumping on the trend of sharing the apps I use to do things
Making my RSS feed pretty
Which is not as hard as it appears if you follow good instructions from others on the internet!
Adding mailing list signup forms to static sites
How I use a Cloudflare Worker to accept form submissions from a Svelte component in a static site hosted on Cloudflare Pages
Using a task runner to help with context switching in software projects
How I use the Just task runner to run common tasks across projects, frameworks and languages with the same commands.
Writing blog posts about things I'm not an expert in
In which I muse about feeling resistance to publishing and what I can try to make this less bad.
Log - January 2023
All the things I've been doing this month.
Yearly theme for 2023 - Year of Sustainability
These past few years I’ve been experimenting with setting a yearly theme rather than doing new years resolutions, which I inevitably fail. 2023 will be my Year of Sustainability.
Escape escapes in code blocks in markdown
If you have backslash for escapes in code blocks in markdown, you need to escape them with more backslash.
I accidentally git pushed to main
How to make your local git config stop you from pushing slightly broken code live by mistake.
My basic git toolkit
How I use git almost all the time, from scratch.
How to read and knit at the same time
Read while you are knitting, or doing anything else which requires hands but not brain, with audiobooks or text-to-speech.
Setting up mail rules in Gmail
Mail rules are automations to make your email inbox do its own filing of your incoming mail. Set them up so you have to spend less time in my inbox doing busy work, and get the important emails dealt with quickly and efficiently
Sorting a list of objects in JavaScript
How to sort a list of objects according to the value of one of the keys.