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There is one cookie that reminds me of Dallas in the 1970s—a chewy oatmeal cookie laced with caramelized butterscotch chips. When I was young, a plate of these was seen... Source

Alright, simmer down, I know I’m not really a “CEO” because I don’t have a board of directors or a c-suite or anything like that, but “day in the life of an autistic freelance web developer turned LTD company managing director” as a title was just ridiculous. Work with me here guys. I’m writing this post because a) in my opinion, there’s not enough public representation of autistic folk just… …

Booking a tattoo appointment is so exciting as long as you don’t look at your bank statement first

A look back at the 2024 highlights for the 11ty org and the Eleventy project!

Text of the day: “To be a scholar is to strike your finger on the page and say, ‘Thou ailest here, and here.’” (AEH in Tom Stoppard’s The Invention of Love) The post The Invention of Love appeared first on Aleks Sierz.

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New Year, New Projects!I am taking this spring term off from teaching, partly to re-energize my batteries which have been rather low on account that I've been going full speed (🚌) since 2018; the pandemic didn't help because teaching increased around that time (not that I am complaining, the cosmos provided something I needed at the time). Another reason for the break is partly to work on a new course …

While waiting for a hot chocolate the sun was out blasting us with warmth on a chilly day. Nice break from the snow flurries. Note tags: halifax, BlackAndWhite, iphone, waiting, winter

The images coming out of Los Angeles this morning are heartbreaking. From the BBC: We don’t yet have concrete answers as to what started the LA fires, it is too early to tell and first responders are still focused on evacuating and tackling the blazes. But, officials have pointed to high winds and drought in the area, which has made vegetation very dry and easy to burn. An important factor …

How can I feel I have arrived home in something that is in many ways so ­foreign to me? And yet beneath the surface it is not foreign at all, but a reversion to the sacred order of things. I sit in a monastery chapel before dawn. There is snow on the ground outside. The priest murmurs the liturgy by the light of the lampadas, the dark silhouettes of two …

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18XX. This has been a year of 18XX games. Things started slowly in the Spring, but then 18 India hit us by a storm. I ended up playing various 18XX titles over 20 times this year; that’s more than a third of my all-time 18XX plays since 2006. Forest Shuffle. I still played a ton of Forest Shuffle on BGA. I’ve played the game over 200 times this year. If …

2024 was a transitional year for me. I spent the first half of this year working at Shopify, and in the latter half I went freelance again. Being a freelancer is great in terms of freedom, so I am able to branch out a bit more now. Top Shopify web performance content # Most of my top content was really the posts I wrote on performance.shopify.com. Luckily, the folks still …

I recently kicked off a 99designs contest for a new logo: https://99designs.com/logo-design/contests/logo-brand-ai-engineering-podcast-help-define-industry-1307842/