December 25, 2020Greenville, South Carolina

I’ve been tinkering with Parcel for a small mostly static html project recently, and I spent quite a bit of time trying to chase down how to inline the main CSS file into the final html page. Parcel is a bundler for JS/CSS/HTML. It’s is really cool, and I found, mostly easier to grok than […]

Lando is my preferred local development tool for many reasons. I’m tinkering with Gatsby, and would like to run it from within Lando, adjacent to my WordPress install. Here’s what I did to get it working. You’ll need a node service, and you’ll have to tell gatsby to bind to allow network access, vs just […]

I wanted a light to turn on only after sunset, and before sunrise, so here’s how I set that up. IFTTT doesn’t have good tools for showing you what’s going on in the code so this took some trial and error, and a decade’s worth of JavaScript knowledge, but this solution should be copy/paste for […]

Two related thoughts. First, early walks on the beach means there are no obstructions, people, beach blankets, umbrellas etc. Distant piers appear only a short walk away, but with nothing but sand to mark the space, seem to take forever to reach. Second, looking at ones feet while walking through the surf is a good […]