Blog Entries tagged "meta"

I’ve let this website atrophy a bit. Well, more than a bit. We’re coming up on 5 years since the last post - about as long as my oldest child has been alive and as long as I’ve been at my current job.

Not to imply that parenting and work have kept me so busy that I couldn’t write one measly blog post. But since that time, I’ve found myself less interested in writing the programming how-to’s that made up most of my past articles.

Still, I do want to write and share. I want this little corner of the internet to be a reflection of me.

But I’ve been dragging...

Inspired by iOS’s new dark mode (and halloween!), I decided to a dark mode to the website using the new prefers-color-scheme media query. It was surprisingly easy to do. After I’d changed the

This took care of 90% of it:

@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  html {
    background-color: #19222b;
    color: #eee;
  }

  .page-wrapper__inner {
    background-color: #222f3b;
    color: #eee;
  }
}

Using a straight black-and-white background and foreground combo looks too harsh on the eyes, so you want to find a gray-ish background. Mine is a bluish-grayish...

My website has gone slightly stagnent lately, so I decided that it was time for a revamp. There were a few things I didn’t like about the old website:

• As a developer with some design chops, I never liked the fact that I hadn’t designed my website myself. I was using the Hyde theme for Jekyll.
• I felt boxed in by the fact that all my previous posts were longer-form articles.
• While Jekyll is a great tool, it’s very blogging-centric, and I wanted to add new types of content.

So I re-designed the website from scratch using Middleman. I started with Thoughtbot...