12 Sep 2025
Sacrificing knowledge in the name of data
The goal is not more data, but data to facilitate the story of what we're trying to achieve.
The blog
7 Sep 2025
Predictable, token-based filenames with Eleventy Image
How I swapped Eleventy Image’s hashed outputs for readable, stable names — and the trade‑offs.
6 Sep 2025 | Note post
Exposing HTML: The No-JS nudist CSS toggle
A tiny footer checkbox to turns your site styles off with no JavaScript required.
5 Sep 2025 | Note post
Go-go-go … I missed EmbedPDF
It seems a robust, embeddable PDF viewer for on‑page reading already exists.
4 Sep 2025 | Note post
Recursion: it’s fonts all the way down
I’ve moved from Now Alt to Recursive, an open‑source variable font that unifies UI text and code with one flexible file.
31 Aug 2025
A simpler, faster site: moving to pure Eleventy v3
I upgraded the site to Eleventy v3, removed Gulp and the Visual Framework, and simplified everything.
11 Aug 2025
Making PDFs more viewable
Because ‘Just give them the PDF’ isn’t good enough.
10 Jul 2025
Drupal delayed by Azure MySQL
Managed Azure Database for MySQL cost us 50%–80% slow down. After six months of pain, we moved our Drupal 10 site back to a classic VM and halved our page‑load times.
8 May 2025
It’s been 3.5 years
A long-overdue update.
23 Dec 2021
Something new for 2022
This month, I’m saying goodbye to my projects at EMBL but my career in web work continues.
21 Dec 2021
Enabling a more dynamic EMBL online
From contentHub to VF 2.0: foundations for faster, more flexible journeys across One EMBL.
30 Aug 2021
EMBL.org: Empowering users to navigate a large scientific organization
We tamed the ‘footmap’ by introducing a more effective directory pattern.
12 Dec 2020
Using Nunjucks templates with React
A lightweight React wrapper with precompiled Nunjucks
11 Nov 2020
Lerna monorepos with fewer tags
Getting the perks of monorepo publishing while curating our git tags and release notes.
13 Jul 2020
Moving from Panini to Eleventy
Back in February 2018, I wrote about updating this site to use a static-site generator by Zurb (makers of the Foundation Framework) called Panini.