March 6, 2026 Font Awesome Kickstarter campaigns live and die by momentum in the first 48 hours, and ours ran out of steam before most of our audience even knew it existed. Yes. We hit our initial goal, but if we can't email folks for the rest of the month, we're dead in the water. So we've made the tough decision...

March 1, 2026 The ldstephens.net site was migrated from WordPress using the 11ty Base Blog and the WordPress import plugin. While I initially used the base blog, I've since replaced it with my own custom 11ty build. With around 50 markdown files exported from WordPress, that I wanted to add to this site, I needed to...

February 26, 2026 I ask myself more questions. What can this new update do for me? Is there anything that the previous iteration can’t keep doing? No? Then what’s the point of upgrading? Does this app have some groundbreaking feature I was really looking for or missing from my tools that makes it worthwhile to start...

February 25, 2026 Last October, I wrote about Carrot Weather's limited data sources. In that post, I mentioned my love for Carrot Weather, but noted that the available weather sources weren't accurate for central New Jersey, and that The Weather Channel and Weatherbit were the most reliable sources for my region. I...

February 22, 2026 I came across this piece by Greg Morris today and it's been rattling around in my head ever since. It's about something most of us don't think about until it's too late the fact that almost nothing in our digital lives is truly ours anymore. Music, photos, software, writing it's all rented. Give it...

February 21, 2026 Fun, fun, fun! For the first time in over a month, the snow has melted enough that I can actually see the yard. Now, we're getting another storm. A powerful nor'easter is heading toward New Jersey, and my town is right in its path. The National Weather Service has issued a Blizzard Warning as well....

February 20, 2026 The security issues impact Live Server (CVE-2025-65715), Code Runner (CVE-2025-65716), Markdown Preview Enhanced (CVE-2025-65717), and Microsoft Live Preview (no identifier assigned).[…] Also, it is advisable to remove unnecessary extensions and only install those from reputable publishers, while...

February 17, 2026 I've often wondered if there was a way to switch between windows within the same application without using the Window menu. Fortunately, I just learned that there is! Thanks to Mac Geek Gab 1129 Quick Tip, I learned that you can use the keyboard shortcut Command + ` (command+backtick) to switch...

February 17, 2026 Apple Support: If iPhone isn’t responding, and you can’t turn it off then on, try forcing it to restart. Press and quickly release the volume up button. Press and quickly release the volume down button. Press and hold the side button. When the Apple logo appears, release the side button. John Gruber

February 14, 2026 A few months back, Nicolas Magand wrote about giving his site the "club racer treatment" — stripping it back to focus on what actually matters. For a blog like his, the driving experience is readability above all else, but he also wanted clean W3C validation and a perfect PageSpeed Insights score....

February 11, 2026 I recently made a small change to this 11ty site: I moved from external CSS to inlining my stylesheet directly in the HTML. The result? Faster page loads and a simpler deployment process. I replaced this in my base.njk template: <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/css/style.css" /> With...

February 9, 2026 This morning, I was looking for something to read and browsed the Bearblog discovery feed. While there's a lot of content there, I realized the platform wasn't quite the right fit for my site. So, I've moved back to 11ty and Render. As I considered the move, I also took stock of my original site's...