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Dave Shea@daveshea@cosocial.ca
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Website: https://daveshea.com
Location: Unceded Coast Salish territory (Vancouver)
Pronouns: he/him
Joined: 2026-10-28 08:06:08
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Dave Shea@daveshea@cosocial.ca (2026-10-27 05:30:26)
https://daveshea.com/journal/don-t-call-it-a-comeback/
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Dave Shea@daveshea@cosocial.ca (2026-10-27 03:51:07)
tfw you're trying to launch a site and your host is having an incident so big that you can't even get in touch with support
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Dave Shea@daveshea@cosocial.ca (2026-10-26 06:33:23)
Everything's ready to go, but slight snag in that I can't actually access my server at the moment. Waiting on support.
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Dave Shea@daveshea@cosocial.ca (2026-10-24 05:55:32)
Another update for you three: well a week or two was optimistic, as these things tend to go. But! I have a release candidate now and with a bit more production-hardening this will go out some time this weekend. Stay tuned.
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Dave Shea@daveshea@cosocial.ca (2026-09-30 06:32:53)
An update on this for the three of you interested: getting somewhere I like and starting to feel that I’m in the home stretch. Another week or two and I’ll share what I’m up to.
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Dave Shea@daveshea@cosocial.ca (2026-09-19 03:38:38)
Lots of nested selectors and imported files are keeping it manageable for now, but will certainly want to flatten the end result into a single file at the very least.
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Dave Shea@daveshea@cosocial.ca (2026-09-19 03:22:22)
So far so good with a bunch of new (to me) native CSS like variables and grid.
It's when I start getting into override management around responsive treatments, custom page styling, etc. that my stylesheets get unwieldy. Sass mixins always helped tame the complexity when I hit this stage, and I knew how to use them properly to avoid bloat.
I see that native mixins are proposed, but looks like not an option yet. May need Sass after all. https://blog.master.dev/thoughts-on-native-css-mixins/
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Dave Shea@daveshea@cosocial.ca (2026-09-16 08:39:56)
Now that the weather is cooling I'm finally getting into this. Happy to report that Eleventy is a joy so far, the multiple collection mechanism is unlocking new ideas that will no doubt send me down a deep rabbit hole.
Dave Shea@daveshea@cosocial.ca (2026-08-12 06:17:54)
If I were spinning up a new static site 10 years ago, it would have been Jekyll & Sass.
I hear the SSG hotness these days is Eleventy., Do we do Sass anymore or has CSS fully caught up?