Notes

What thinking about, what I’ve learned, and what I’ve made.

• A Look Back at 2021

  31 Dec 2021 ⁃ about
  A look back at work, running, and changes to this site in 2021.

• The Fastest

  27 Sep 2021 ⁃ webdev eleventy
  Hey! I have the fastest site on The Eleventy Leaderboard for No. 15!

• A Running Log - Garmin Connect and Eleventy

  09 Aug 2021 ⁃ running eleventy webdev
  Use Eleventy to log Garmin Connect activities on a website and automate the process with Zapier and Netlify.

• Find Whitespace in VSCode

  14 Apr 2021 ⁃ webdev
  Something I learned about whitespace (and new line character) regex search in VSCode.

• December 27th, 2020

  15 Jan 2021 ⁃ narrative
  I stepped outside into the crisp December morning.

• It’ll all be over by... Christmas

  29 Dec 2020 ⁃ webcomic
  Slow and steady is the race. Onward to 2021.

• Project Proposal Form

  08 Dec 2020 ⁃ design css html
  Rebuild an old design, a print form, in HTML.

• The First Weeks of October

  31 Oct 2020 ⁃ haiku poetry
  Haikus to commemorate extra time outdoors during the first three weeks of October 2020.

• Crain Family Ancestry

  07 Aug 2020 ⁃ ancestry
  How I became involved, the resources I found valuable, and the places I’ve visited in search of a Crain family history.

• The launch of this website

  27 Jul 2020 ⁃ webdev
  The (much delayed) launch of a personal website, joshcrain.io.

• Becoming a front-end master

  16 Mar 2020 ⁃ webdev
  Chris’ readings and exercises to guide me towards front-end mastery.

• Love Bears All Things

  14 Feb 2020 ⁃ illustration
  A year ago for Valentine’s Day I made a couple bears in love. Illustration in CSS and HTML is completely unnecessary—but fun!

• Yamaha SHS-10

  05 Feb 2020 ⁃ illustration
  The Yamaha SHS-10 keytar is rendered in Adobe Illustrator. Created in about 2006.

• Forsaken

  19 Jul 2019 ⁃ photo
  Forsaken places.

• Arizona & Utah

  18 Jul 2019 ⁃ photo
  Paria Movie Site, Montezuma Castle, Grand Canyon and Bryce Canyon.

• 140 miles from the Camp Fire

  18 Jun 2019 ⁃ photo
  The Camp Fire began the day we arrived.

• A Run

  29 May 2019 ⁃ narrative
  That was the night I planned to run six but instead ended up on a gravel road in the middle of a twelve-mile loop...

I also (try to) write a short weekly update called weeknotes.