Public posts from @chrisburnell@repc.co
Only one month until State of the Browser, and I will once again be organising, but this year I’ll be there *in-person*! 🥳 Sadly, I’ve had to do what I can *rather remotely* since 2023, so I’m really looking forward to some amazing talks, meeting old pals, and making new ones too. Less than 15 in-person tickets left, so I hope to see you there! (I’ll just take credit for any tickets claimed in…
Are you a fan of # grunge ? Tell me what to listen to this month! I’m dedicating each month this year to spending some time exploring and listening to music from genres outside my usual rotations, with one genre of focus per month. Hit me up if you have any thoughts, ideas, recommendations, etc.! https:// chrisburnell.com/article/unusu al-rotations-2026-01/ # UnusualRotations #…
Spent the last few days poking at the boundaries of my knowledge and (to my surprise) managed to set up a # PiHole for my home network. It's been chuggling along for about a week now, athough I had to learn a lot to even be able to debug the issues I faced, let alone "fix" them. Got there in the end, though, and it feels great to learn new things. I also pulled together a # BirdNETPi , a magical…
The roof of my apartment has a leak, and building management could not be more reluctant to actually fix it. Anyway, I've spent the last eight hours mopping up under leaking walls, piling towels against skirting boards, and doing laundry. *Awesome* Friday! 🤙
🌞 Colour Scheming 🌝 Published a new* article on the ol’ blog. In this one, I talk about how I manage colour schemes on my website, walking through how a little HTML, a web component, and some carefully-crafted CSS come together to build a hierarchy of how colour schemes can be applied while respecting visitors’ colour scheme preferences. https:// chrisburnell.com/article/color -scheming/ (* If…
the fog is up to the wall in Halifax. The Watcher in the Fog took Óin.We cannot get out. The end comes drums, drums in the fog they are coming (there was a *lot* of fog in Halifax this morning)
For a place that puts such a high value on rules and regulations, it feels downright criminal how difficult it is to find bars/pubs in Singapore that serve "pints" which actually measure up to a pint (even with the pessimistic assumption that it will be a US liquid pint, 473mL). Though I've probably just been spoiled by great pubs and CAMRA beer festivals in the UK. # FirstWorldProblems #…
It's no wonder this place is called Emerald Lake! (Johor Bahru, Malaysia)
Looking for some help. I've done a silly thing and had a 30-day content cache retention policy set on my self-hosted Mastodon instance. This has resulted in the context around my posts being purged (e.g. remote posts I’ve replied to as well as remote replies to my own posts). Although I suspect the answer is no, is there any way to loop through my posts and restore the missing context?
May 31st has come at last. 😮💨 I wrapped up a month of blogging with a post for this month’s IndieWeb Carnival, hosted by @ hamatti , on the topic of creative environments. As seems to be typical for me now, it’s a bit meandering, but I think I captured my thoughts well enough. ⚡ Strike while the iron is hot https:// chrisburnell.com/article/strik e-while-the-iron-is-hot/ # WeblogPoMo2024
Stayed up until 5 in the morning watching all the *incredible* talks from # 11tyConf (“International Symposium on Making Web Sites Real Good”), and I have ZERO regrets. Huge, huge shoutout to everyone involved! ❤️ Now, if you’ll excuse me… 😴
⭐ I made a directory for /interests pages! If you’ve made an /interests page on your website, why not submit it to the directory. ☺️ Blog Post: https:// chrisburnell.com/note/interest s-directory/ The Directory: https:// chrisburnell.github.io/interes ts-directory/ # WeblogPoMo2024
📝 New Post: Web Components from early 2024 https:// chrisburnell.com/note/early-20 24-web-components/ Been really enjoying building Web Components this year! Here are a couple that I’ve built recently. # WebComponents # WeblogPoMo2024
⭐ New Post: What are you interested in? In which I propose a new way for website authors to share what they’re passionate about and discover new shared interests amongst friends. https:// chrisburnell.com/note/slash-in terests/ # WeblogPoMo2024
# CSSNakedDay 2024 has begun, and there are still a little over 48 hours to participate! https:// css-naked-day.github.io
📅 New post: Lost in Time https:// chrisburnell.com/article/lost- in-time/ In this one, I tried to make a compelling argument for including the time and timezone in Date strings, and listed some of the pitfalls that come from omitting them. This is important for me since I moved from the UK to Singapore (7–8 hours apart) and to ensure my website’s calendar feed of conferences/meetups I’m attending…
⚡ New post: How I shaved 1.5 minutes off my Eleventy build time https:// chrisburnell.com/article/memoi zing-asset-bundles/ tl;dr: memoization I recently reviewed and rebuilt my entire website piece-by-piece as a means of brushing aside cobwebs and to move things over to ESM (now supported in the # eleventy canary channel). However, I still had some *egregious* build times from asset bundling, and…
Okay this broke my brain for a moment there
One of my few superpowers that I continue to exercise on a near daily basis: I always sit down to put on my socks, and when I do, (wait for it…) I sit on one of the socks and have to shimmy myself over to wrench it out from under me (in case you missed it, that’s it, that’s the superpower) 🤡 🧦
Sunsets are awesome here