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Don’t call it a comeback

Creating a new personal website in 2026 is certainly a choice. The commercial web is a disaster of privacy invasion, pop up annoyances, and ads that drown out content. Most social media is a dumpster fire best left in the rearview. Bots outnumber people while siphoning up ev...

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Repurposing food scraps

I try to get the most out of ingredients, so I've built up a reportoire of ways to divert what would otherwise be food scraps into other productive uses. If I were going for influencer points I might call these food hacks or something, but really all this is is a way of taki...

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Mount Strachan

We got a nice run of late-September sun, so I got in what's presumably my last hike for the year. The days are getting shorter and I don't like being out near sunset, so I opted for a quick loop of Mount Strachan for this one. The first stretch from the top of Cypress M...

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CSS is incredible now

This site is the first I've built from scratch in a long time, and coming back to the current state of the web after missing some of its recent evolution offered a pretty stunning look at how much front end web technology has changed over the past 20 years. What's amazing Th...

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Tour de Victoria

In 2022, a group of friends and I travelled to Victoria, BC to participate in the Tour de Victoria. It's an all-ages annual cycling event where you choose your own adventure: there are family-friendly 15km and 30km starter routes, up to the serious slogs at 140km and 160km. ...