beeps' blog

This is my personal blog, full of inane ramblings not wholly intended to be read by anyone. And yet, here you are. Also there’s an RSS feed if you're so inclined.

1. Renovating in the open
   11 January 2025 Last updated 17 January 2025
2. The Year of Health
   1 January 2025

1. 2024: the year, abridged
   24 December 2024
2. Progress in transition
   20 December 2024
3. A userstyle to hide the numbers on Bluesky
   5 December 2024
4. Alt text — How to write it and why you should
   2 December 2024
5. The yingification of beeps
   27 November 2024
6. Why GOV.UK’s Exit this Page component doesn’t use the Escape key
   9 October 2024
7. The Changelog: Upgrading to Eleventy 3, an artwork overhaul, and forced colour fixes
   2 October 2024
8. A general life update
   23 September 2024
9. The Bluesky hater’s guide to using Bluesky
   18 September 2024
10. In memory of Cohost
    12 September 2024
11. Frontend Forum #3: Frontend tooling
    22 August 2024
12. Covid sucks, but you should already know that
    26 June 2024
13. Frontend Forum #2: Getting (and staying) motivated
    30 April 2024
14. Frontend Forum #1: The basics and getting started
    29 April 2024
15. The products and programs I’ve procured to promote productivity
    20 March 2024
16. The Changelog: Dark modes, redesigns, and building a utopia
    6 March 2024
17. Making a character count component more accessible
    7 February 2024
18. The Year of Order: January
    27 January 2024
19. The Changelog: Interactions, OpenGraph, and the curse of third-party code
    23 January 2024
20. 2023: the year in review
    1 January 2024

1. My initial experiences using the Arc web browser
   10 December 2023
2. Buttons
   27 November 2023 Last updated 18 August 2024
3. Some thoughts on “professionalism”
   17 November 2023
4. Writing & Reconnection: October (the finale)
   1 November 2023
5. A maker, not a manager
   25 October 2023
6. Writing & Reconnection: September
   30 September 2023
7. Writing & Reconnection: August
   5 September 2023
8. The next generation
   27 August 2023
9. Writing & Reconnection: July
   31 July 2023
10. A brief comparison of not-Twitter services
    26 July 2023
11. 20 Years
    25 July 2023
12. Writing & Reconnection: June
    5 July 2023
13. Some untamed rambling about how this website is built
    21 June 2023
14. Writing & Reconnection: May (ConFuzzled edition)
    31 May 2023
15. Let me tell you a secret
    16 May 2023
16. Writing & Reconnection: April
    1 May 2023
17. Otherkin-friendly CAPTCHAs, revisited
    27 April 2023 Last updated 17 May 2024
18. Using user stylesheets in 2023
    26 April 2023
19. Writing & Reconnection: March
    31 March 2023
20. Writing & Reconnection: February
    28 February 2023
21. Building a bat bot
    7 February 2023
22. Writing & Reconnection: January
    1 February 2023
23. CSS logical properties are cool — don’t use them
    9 January 2023
24. 2022: the year in summary
    1 January 2023

1. beeps in the Multiverse of Multiplicity: Our experiences and ponderings on potentially being plural
   27 October 2022
2. Rating my pride flags
   19 September 2022
3. How I use Twitter
   6 September 2022 Last updated 25 January 2023
4. (Not) Human After All, or: progress doesn’t always mean forwards
   11 August 2022 Last updated 17 August 2022
5. Homework
   30 July 2022
6. Discovery - Q&A
   28 July 2022 Last updated 14 September 2022
7. Discovery
   27 July 2022 Last updated 28 July 2022
8. Furry websites have trash accessibility (and it’s not their fault)
   28 June 2022
9. Pre-emptive design for fun and productivity
   14 May 2022
10. A robot bat on the internet
    10 April 2022

1. Star Trek Ahoy: Part 2
   23 November 2021
2. Star Trek Ahoy
   22 November 2021

1. Introduction to Holiday Poetry
   25 December 2020
2. Going underground
   13 December 2020
3. I’m giving out a bunch of video game keys because why not
   5 December 2020
4. Initial experiences with Google TV
   19 October 2020
5. Consolidating all of my existing blogs into one easy to manage personal place
   18 October 2020

1. Immmprovised fried chicken
   16 March 2019

1. Bake Off
   17 September 2017
2. Of emergencies and enchiladas
   9 June 2017
3. Rubbin’ steak
   7 June 2017
4. Skin-on mashed potatoes
   6 June 2017
5. Barbecue pork shoulder (when you don’t own a barbecue)
   3 June 2017
6. Sickness and scrambled eggs
   1 June 2017
7. Hello (food) world
   1 June 2017

1. The referral that never was
   1 September 2016

1. The deed is done
   29 August 2015
2. Updates
   15 July 2015
3. transition: gender 2y ease;
   13 March 2015
4. Work
   11 March 2015
5. 2015 is when everything changes
   10 March 2015

1. The ups and downs
   21 November 2014
2. All quiet on the western front
   9 November 2014
3. One step forwards, two steps back
   15 September 2014
4. Comin’ out cool
   25 August 2014
5. The persistance of doubt
   8 August 2014
6. The good, the bad, and the ugly
   24 July 2014
7. What’s in a name? (Part two)
   16 July 2014
8. On gender and sexuality
   16 July 2014
9. What’s in a name?
   12 July 2014
10. The long walk
    10 July 2014