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Posts from 2025

All posts from the year 2025.

Painted Nails With Black Onyx

Building a Calendar Interface in Astro

How I built a static calendar interface in Astro using date-fns.

21 Sep, 2025 — myles

Astro Colophon Tailwind CSS TypeScript

Sep

26

26 Sep, 2025

6:00 PM

It's Ok* Studios

Toronto, Ontario

I am going to Subvert x New Feeling: Music and Co-ops Social & Salon at It's Ok* Studios.

I want to read A Gorgeous Excitement: A Novel by Cynthia Weiner.

Cover of "A Gorgeous Excitement: A Novel"

I want to read If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares.

Cover of "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All"

Alexandra Ciufudean explores the IndieWeb, where people’s personal websites are pushing back against the corporate internet.

Butterfly

A butterfly on a flower. — undefined - 10 Sep, 2025 at 10:51 AM

A butterfly on a flower. — undefined - 10 Sep, 2025 at 10:51 AM

A tomato plant growing in concrete on the side of a building. — undefined - 6 Sep, 2025 at 10:57 AM

Painted Nails With Big Apple Red

JSONFeed in Astro with @astrojs/rss

I wanted this website to publish both an RSS feed and a JSONFeed. The catch: I didn’t want to maintain two separate feed pipelines.

3 Sep, 2025 — myles

Astro Colophon JSONFeed RSS XML Feed

Graffiti on asphalt reading “Boiler Room Funds Genocide”. — undefined

I want to read Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James.

Cover of "Black Leopard, Red Wolf"

I don’t appreciate Duolingo’s pro-horse agenda.

Screenshot of Duolingo French lesson. It's asking to translate the English sentence, In the countryside, I hear the horses, to French. I successfully translated it to Á la campagne j'entends les chevaux.

Screenshot of a Duolingo French lesson. It's asking to translate the English sentence, This horse is very beautiful, to French. I successfully translated it to Che cheval est tres beau.

Farm Photo Dump

View of a partly cloudy sky framed by two large white umbrellas at the edges, with the tops of leafy green trees below. — undefined - 22 Aug, 2025 at 3:06 PM

Close-up of a tree branch with bright green leaves in sunlight, with a grassy field and small yellow flowers in the background. — undefined - 22 Aug, 2025 at 5:49 PM

Backyard scene with a small wooden shed framed by tall trees, sunlight filtering through the leaves, and the corner of a bright blue swimming pool in the foreground. — undefined - 22 Aug, 2025 at 6:14 PM

Wooden rocking chair on a deck at night, lit by a warm light, facing a row of green shrubs and a dark blue sky. — undefined - 22 Aug, 2025 at 9:13 PM

Conservationist Matt Somerville has spent 14 years building log hives across England to give wild honey bees safe, low-intervention homes.

Tomatoes from the garden.

A white bowl filled with freshly picked cherry tomatoes in shades of red and orange, with green stems attached, sitting on a wooden railing with greenery and a brick wall in the background. — undefined

Lego sculpture on the corner of Edwin Ave and Dupont St.

A traffic light pole base on a city sidewalk is covered in colourful LEGO bricks, forming a tall, blocky structure. Small baskets filled with loose LEGO pieces surround the base, and scattered bricks are spread across the pavement. — undefined

Paused reading Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow.

Cover of "Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow"

Finished watching James Gunn’s Superman.

Poster for Superman

Superman

Started reading Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow.

Cover of "Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow"

Paused reading Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You, Volume 1.

Cover of "Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You, Volume 1"

Finished watching The Fantastic 4: First Steps.

Poster for The Fantastic 4: First Steps

The Fantastic 4: First Steps

A map on the wall of a coffeeshop of the City of Toronto. — undefined

Started reading Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You, Volume 1.

Cover of "Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You, Volume 1"