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Simple light/dark mode
There are a few ways to add light/dark mode support to a website, and I like this way.
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Six months, sixty pounds
At the end of 2024 I weighed 257 pounds, and today I weigh 197.
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My favorite music as of July 2025
The artists, albums, and songs I can’t stop listening to … lately anyway.
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yearsSince
JavaScript that calculates the number of years that have passed since a given date, utilized in an Eleventy shortcode.
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My favorite music as of October 2024
The artists, albums, and songs I can’t stop listening to … lately anyway.
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My favorite music as of June 2024
Two and a half years later…
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You’re beautiful, call me sometime
I heard she was going to the nearby coffee shop to meet a new colleague of hers at 2pm, which gave me an hour to think about how I might slip her a note.
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Snow Me
A book about snowmen, by Noah (age 8).
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CSS your RSS with XSL, LOL
Have you ever tapped an RSS/ATOM feed link?
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Don’t wash electronics
A lesson learned when I was six years old.
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Watch charger, meet iPhone
I’m the kind of person that learns about neat tech stuff long after everyone else has, so brace yourself as I tell you about some neat tech stuff you probably already know about.
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2023’s most visited pages
The most highly trafficked pages on my site in 2023…
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Noah’s to do list
Noah had some things to do last night (and they’re so incredibly cute).
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Default Apps 2023
The apps I default to for various things in 2023.
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Cape Cod 2023
We went to the Cape this past weekend for an end of school mini-vacation.
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Getting older
The cute stuff doesn’t last forever.
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A seven year old’s grocery list
Noah helped us write another grocery list and it’s perfect.
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My job history
My friend Johannes and I were recently chatting about the jobs we had before becoming web developers.
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pspsps
One of my favorite stickers…
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Funk’s old brother
Right about now…
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A six year old’s grocery list
Noah helped us write a grocery list and it’s perfect.
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Ten and a half
On this day, back in 1989, my dad passed away at 30 years old.
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Our COVID-19 log
COVID-19 finally struck and this is how it went…
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Smooth snailing
We have a few snails in our fish tank, and I saw this one sailing across the surface.
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Jonathan’s first book
Without any encouragement or knowledge on our part, our eight year old son wrote and illustrated a book.
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A dinner opinion
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Tacoma log
This feels dorky but, eh, why not?
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A log of the books I read
A book log, if you will. A blog, if you must.
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My favorite music as of December 2021
The artists, albums, and songs I can’t stop listening to … lately anyway.
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A typical weekday: second half of 2021
This is the first entry in a series about what I do during a typical weekday.
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A drip coffee maker brewing / timing tip
Slow down, coffee addict.
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Patriot (TV show)
This is an angry journal entry about an amazing show…
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“I didn’t see any stooges”
…is what our 7 year old said 90 minutes later.
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My favorite music as of July 2021
The artists, albums, and songs I can’t stop listening to … lately anyway.
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There are a bunch of us!
In a rare moment of boredom, I searched the internet for other Marc Amoses and found these fine people…
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My favorite music as of March 2021
The artists, albums, and songs I can’t stop listening to … lately anyway.
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If it rained food
If you could turn rain into one type of food, what would it be?
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An adventure in United States healthcare
I know this is minor compared to what others have dealt with, but it’s the worst I’ve experienced … so far.
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A near miss
Being annoyed might’ve saved my life?
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Add DuckDuckGo-powered search to your website
Six lines of HTML and you’ve got search on your website (via DuckDuckGo).
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Our new Intex pool
Photos of us setting up a 12 foot wide Intex pool, including ground preparation.
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One-egg cooking pot
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Hot peanuts recipe
A recipe for hot peanuts that I came up with through trial and error.
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The definition of success
A nice reminder of what’s important in life, and what isn’t.
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Writing again
It’s been a long time since I’ve written something personal.