I’d like to thank Andy Bell for his incredible 11ty course. Without it, this site wouldn’t exist as it currently does.
Plugins #
Style #
Bundler #
For testing #
- Google Developer Web Tools
- Responsively for testing the responsivenes of a site. I also use an Ipad, ThinkPad and a Google Pixel
- Wave for accessibility.
- I try to make sure the site looks and works decently accross Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Safari.
Content Management and Developing #
- PagesCMS: I use this for adding links and quick thoughts
- VSCode: VSCode is where I right my blog posts and edit the majority of my site.
Tools #
- OS: Windows 11
- Laptop: ThinkPad
This site is hosted on Github and deployed with Netlify.
Fonts #
Reccommend #
Here are the blogs and sites I like to read.
Misc #
- Vicky Boykis. She recommends good books.
- Paul Graham I like the way he writes
- James Somers He has interesting ideas
- Otium Math and a lot of other intereting stuff
- Whatever Scalzi Really fun blog
- Gin and Tacos Whimsical. Makes ya think. Love the Communist design
- Ramses he talks about learning in general but also there’s web stuff
- Salman’s Blog His personal blog.
- Aegir fun little short notes
- Kottke his blog is old
- Marius Masalar he writes mainly about tech but also about blogging sites
- Mandy Brown Books
News (maybe??) #
Stay Curious #
- Quanta Magazine
- Excursion Set Physics!
Math #
- Simply Statistics Statisticsssss.
- John D Cook His math is reall accessible.
- Matt Honner Really good at making math fun
- Amelia Wattenberger writes about data visualization
Brain Stuff #
- Neuro Plausible. They write about brain stuff.
- Scott Alexander I’m sad I discovered them after they left their blog. They have really interesting posts about psychology
Web Stuff #
- Monica’s Blog She writes about software and other interesting stuff
- Dave Rupert’s Blog. Writes about Design
- Simon Collison A designer who’s posts about life and design.
- Nick Scialli Intersting JavaScript stuff
- Tania Rascia A learning blog! She’s one of the people who inspired me to start this blog
- Resire014 Game design! This person has posts and I’ve never watched their streams.
- Matt Litzinger Used to follow them on Tumblr.
- Gift Egwuenu’s Blog I love the way her blog looks
- Josh Comeau Has useful code snippets
- Cassie’s Blog
- Sara Fossheim
- Paul Scanlon Really nice and interesting blog
- Jessica’s Blog HTML, CSS and JS. Her blog is very beginner friendly
- Anhvn Keyboards and art
- Una really nice blog, writes about web design
- Iheanyi’s blog
- Jecelyn’s blog really helpful blog
- Simone Magurno
- Fem Geek she is a designer but also photographer I found her tutorial really useful for my community site.
- Brian Lovin his site is just so fascinating.
- Ste Grainer
- Stephen Ajulu
- Rob Dip
- Dominic Jay
- Kev
Accessible Web Stuff #
- Tink front end web design and screen readers
- Adrian Roselli
- La Lutiine du Web
- Accessibility Developer Guide
- W3C Web Accessibility
Making Stuff #
- Maxim’s Blog They create interesting stuff
Medium Blogs (as in on Medium, not about Mediums sorry to disapoint) #
Philosophy #
- Embedded in Academia
- Michael Huemer: he is one of my favorite modern philosophers (although I still am not convinced by libertarianism and most likely never will be)
Science #
- Adam Ruben he writes hilarious science posts. I remember loving his comedic column in community college.
- Phil Plait Bad Astronomy
Not Blogs #
Resources #
Chess #
Image
- Header
- Old Book Illustrations Hot Air Balloon
- French Press
- Contour Generated Background
- Latte by Smashicons
- Coffee
- Gradient Generator by Josh Comeau
- Computers by Miguel Angel Avila
- Javascript code
- Capybara
- Blue Sky Image Background
- Whale
- All other images on this site was created by me
Resources
- Learn Eleventy From Scratch
- Tatiana Mac’s Beginner’s Guide to Eleventy Part 2
- A Complete Guide to FlexBox
- Free Code Camp
- Brad Traversy’s Git and Github for Beginners
- Atlassian Bitbucket Guide to Git and Version Control
- One Line Layout
- CSS Grid Guide
- Emojipedia
- CSS Trick’s How to Skip Area
Update 11/20/2021
Background Image by Nitish Meena