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New Aug 4, 2026
Secret RSS Posts
I've seen Dave Rupert do posts that only appear in the RSS feed. He called it the RSS Club. In his words, It’s like a newsletter delivered to your feed reader to celebrate the medium of RSS and bre...
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New Aug 2, 2026
A Mid-summer Night’s Update
We’re into the thick of summer and the days have been long and hot—just the way I like it. Pushing the One and Only Edge Back in March, I mentioned ha...
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New Jul 30, 2026
The Walk Back
I am a cocktail and four wines in as we step out into the cool autumn night after a hefty dinner. My sweater and the alcohol and her hand will keep me warm on the walk back. “The directions say to tu...
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New Jul 28, 2026
Chimed, I’m sure
A decade ago, when I was still speaking at conferences and heavily marketing myself, I’d often think of personal branding ideas. We’ve seen the trends. The business cards. The t-shirts. The st...
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New Jul 25, 2026
Collections
In 1985, at the age of eleven, I bought my first comic book: The Transformers #9. From there, I went on to collect nearly a thousand comics over my teenage years, mostly in the Marvel universe like Sp...
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New Jul 21, 2026
They Don’t Need to Go On Forever
I came across this fun little comic titled We Didn’t Lose the Plot. It has a straightforward conclusion: more things should come to an end. The “things” referred to here is media like books and movie...
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New Jul 18, 2026
I Added Syntax Highlighting Using the 11ty PrismJS Plugin
One thing I like about 11ty is that common tasks for development oriented blogs are easily handled and syntax highlighting is no exception. I installed the Syntax Highl...
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New Jul 16, 2026
A Few of The CSS Tidbits I Put in The Site
When I was building this site, I was keeping it lean but perhaps a bit messy. It’s not a big complex site and I didn’t need to write CSS to maintain a big complex site. As such, I even wondered if I’...
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New Jul 15, 2026
Font Choices
A week ago, I had launched this site using QuatroSlab for page titles and Google’s Slabo for body copy. For those that have been around awhile and are familiar with SMACSS, you might recognize Qu...
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New Jul 12, 2026
The End and The Beginning
Welcome to the beginning. The end happened months ago but like many endings, sometimes they take awhile. The End Snook.ca has, for the better part of the last 25 years, been mostly a professional out...