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Sophie builds fun things out of HTML, CSS & JavaScript, and writes blog posts about tech and mental health.

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83 from 6 Apr 2019 to 18 Oct 2026
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monthly (8 in the last year)
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personal blog
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2026 7

  1. Digital recipe management for fastidious cooks
  2. Turning my sad gaming PC into a media server
  3. Returning to owning things in a streaming world
  4. Some things I’ve been enjoying: August 2026
  5. Time-based background colour transitions with Temporal and CSS color-mix
  6. Making an original Jubilee line door button into a Hue light switch
  7. Stop generating, start thinking

2025 9

  1. 2025: The year in lists
  2. This website is for humans
  3. Touching grass (and shrubs, and flowers, and dog)
  4. This page is under construction
  5. The blog questions challenge
  6. Good links: 16 February 2025
  7. Good links: 9 February 2025
  8. My month of rest and relaxation
  9. I repaired my Steam Deck and it was fine, actually

2024 35

  1. 2024: The year in lists
  2. Good links: 8 December 2024
  3. Some things I've been enjoying recently (November 2024 edition)
  4. The art in everyday life
  5. Good links: 22 September 2024
  6. You should go to conferences
  7. New garden theme
  8. Good links: 15 September 2024
  9. Good links: 18 August 2024
  10. liveness probe
  11. Different ways to mock third-party integrations in Jest
  12. Good links: 12 May 2024
  13. New keyboard alert! Mykeyclub MKC75
  14. Twitter reply guys were bad, but Mastodon is no better
  15. All Day Hey 2024, and some stuff I bought in Leeds
  16. Good links: 28 April 2024
  17. Good links: 14 April 2024
  18. A good recipe: Ways with rhubarb
  19. Upcoming talk: All Day Hey, Leeds - 2nd May 2024
  20. Good links: 31 March 2024
  21. Good links: 17 March 2024
  22. Some things I've been enjoying recently
  23. Good links: 10 March 2024
  24. Good links: 3 March 2024
  25. Good links: 25 February 2024
  26. Good links: 18 February 2024
  27. Good links: 4 February 2024
  28. Listen to this: The Stand-in by Caitlin Rose
  29. Good links: 28 January 2024
  30. So you've decided to get into mechanical keyboards
  31. Automated weekly links posts with raindrop.io and Eleventy
  32. Good links: 21 January 2024
  33. How I deploy my Eleventy site to Neocities
  34. Sending webmentions from a static site
  35. Just because you can doesn't mean you should: the <meter> element

2023 16

  1. Remembering the early 00s teen website scene
  2. A good podcast: Twenty Thousand Hertz
  3. 2023: The year in lists
  4. Engineering progression for humans
  5. Beautiful musical chaos
  6. A good recipe: The best chocolate brownies
  7. How to schedule posts in Eleventy
  8. Building post types and category RSS feeds in Eleventy
  9. A good recipe: Smitten Kitchen's apple pie cookies
  10. Introducing separate category RSS feeds
  11. "AI", and the trouble with inaccessible SaaS
  12. A good podcast: If Books Could Kill
  13. Beyond Tellerrand: beyond amazing
  14. Painting the whole beetle: an adventure in learning to learn
  15. Everything should have an API: adventures in trying to automate stuff
  16. I miss Twitter

2022 7

  1. 2022: The year in lists
  2. Preparing for conferences
  3. Building a website like it's 1999... in 2022
  4. Everything I googled in a week as a senior software engineer
  5. When going back doesn't mean going backwards
  6. Burnout, a cautionary tale (and a plea to take a break)
  7. Start at the beginning: the importance of learning the basics

2021 2

  1. The right tag for the job: why you should use semantic HTML
  2. A typical day: pandemic edition

2020 3

  1. Give yourself a break: lessons from burnout
  2. 7 myths designers and developers believe about web accessibility
  3. Defending yourself against cross-site scripting attacks with Content-Security-Policy

2019 4

  1. ffconf 2019: future friends beside the seaside
  2. Everything I googled in a week as a professional software engineer
  3. Questions to ask at an engineering interview
  4. Why software engineers should know their audience