Heya, I'm Wilhelm Murdoch.
Coder & Platform Engineer.

Slinger of nibbles, bits and bytes. Over 25 years of professional experience as a software engineer. Love making glowing rectangles go "beep-boop".

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19 changelog events in between

a message for normies or whatever Jun 17
add stupid thingo for peeps Jun 17
add local fixture for GH events; normalise data fetching Jun 17
fixing my face Jun 17
fix my face Jun 17
deleted dark-mode-theme-selection Jun 17
feature: dark mode (#11) Jun 17
feature: dark mode #11 Jun 17
deleted particle-MEmitter Jun 17
Introducing a particle MEmitter (#10) Jun 17
Introducing a particle MEmitter #10 Jun 17
created particle-MEmitter Jun 17
created dark-mode-theme-selection Jun 16
update highlight colours on seperate pages; rose for bits, purpose for archive and emerald for the changelog Jun 16
make headers anchorable with the addition of smooth scroll Jun 16
move all the article prose inline class assignments to main.cs Jun 16
some responsive prose updates Jun 16
some more responsive work for smaller screens Jun 16
some gammar missed steaks; fix activity graph legend squircle... roundiness? Jun 16

Reading Between the Posts

Posted yesterday in Development + #hugo & #css

18 changelog events in between

fuck it, everyone gets an activity graph Jun 15
created interstitial-timeline-events Jun 15
finished dicking around with interstitial events and wrote a short blog post about it Jun 15
implementing interstitial timeline events; munging + shaping new front page data source; drafting explanitory blog article Jun 15
update latest article with a full graph example Jun 15
ok, final-final-edit-copy(5).psd Jun 15
update opener to cover style change Jun 15
update opener to cover style change Jun 15
Quartiles, SON! We just like Github. We just like Github, FR! ( also, add a special demo mode ) Jun 15
update the activity graph to use quartiles instead of linear comparisons Jun 15
some small article updates and the introduction of the activity graph Jun 15
quick blurb about the activity graph Jun 15
chore: restructure blog article storage / layout Jun 15
first pass prototyping an activity graph for all content events Jun 15
fix(responsiveness): some stylistic fixes for the article header Jun 15
fix: small cosmetic update to branch name references in changelog Jun 15
new article about the changelog section Jun 15
lightened up callout styles as well as other prose; the changelog is now optimised for small screens Jun 15

A Year in Circles... I mean Squares. Or, is it Squircles?

Posted recently in Development + #hugo , #css & #tailwindcss

19 changelog events in between

A Changelog That Builds Itself

Posted recently in Development + #hugo , #github & #api

Some Long Overdue Housekeeping

Posted recently in Development + #hugo , #tailwindcss , #css & #refactoring

1 bit and 41 changelog events in between

fix: restore icon badge shape and Firefox progress color under v4 Jun 13
docs: add a project README Jun 13
style: add prettier-plugin-tailwindcss and sort utility classes Jun 13
refactor: reuse the head partial in 404.html Jun 13
fix: render /bits and /blog correctly and silence layout warnings Jun 13
perf: serve fonts as woff2 with font-display: swap Jun 13
chore: drop dead FontAwesome JS and fix the default archetype Jun 13
fix: read the changelog fixture from disk in development Jun 13
fix: migrate templates to current Hugo APIs Jun 13
build: replace static/ Tailwind build with Hugo-native Tailwind v4 Jun 13
chore: remove build cruft and expand gitignore Jun 13
The Very First <span>Bit</span> Jun 6
ok, started a small short-form blog section called "bits" Apr 19
some card fixes for FF based browsers; started drafting new article Apr 15
fixed tag & taxonomy page titles Feb 12
updated terms and associated taxonomy pages; linked up tags for filtering Feb 12
moving a few bits and bobs around Feb 8
prettierd for go templates borking pluralization of a few words Feb 6
updating prettier settings to account for golang html templates Feb 5
yoooooooooo updating stuff look at meeeee Jan 31
truncate commit message length Jan 31
address right padding Jan 31
supporting pull request review comments Jan 31
darken vertical timeline border in changelog Jan 30
a few stylistic updates to header titles to keep things consistent Jan 29
updated fork, pr review and sponsorship event types Jan 29
changelog is live 🎉 Jan 29
wrapping up the changelog Jan 29
more progress on the changelog Jan 24
more updates to the changelog Jan 22
schloom #5 Jan 22
sigh Jan 21
changelog updates Jan 21
Merge pull request #4 from wilhelm-murdoch/boopsies Jan 19
testeroni #4 Jan 19
testeroni Jan 19
changelog updates and such Jan 19
changelog updates Jan 17
updated footer blurb Jan 17
some grammatical fixes Jan 17
some formatting updates Jan 17
new article; design, shortcode and partial updates Jan 17

Printing Ordinal Numbers in Hugo

Posted 516 days ago in Development + #hugo & #snippets

13 changelog events in between

nav badge support; responsive updates Jan 15
sigh Jan 14
use the real github api url Jan 14
styling updates; removed tags from front page; started change log; updated nav Jan 14
some additional style updates to the home page Jan 13
Added a new smaller card view for more recent entries Jan 13
menu style updates Jan 13
updated dynamic menu Jan 13
importing fonts Jan 13
remove gravatar dependency Jan 13
image fixes Jan 13
preload Jan 13
some more optimisations Jan 13

My Blog Publishing Setup & Workflow

Posted 522 days ago in Development + #obsidian , #hugo , #bash & #cloudflare

Breaking Up Log Output Using Bash

Posted 524 days ago in Development + #bash , #snippets & #tutorials

How to Mass-Unfollow Instagram Accounts

Posted 526 days ago in Happy Hacking + #bash , #api , #tutorials & #snippets

The Longer Something Doesn't Happen, the Sooner it Will

Posted 872 days ago in Platform Engineering + #devops , #sre & #chaos-engineering

Why I Built Plant Smart

Posted 1,256 days ago in Thoughts & Musings + #svelte & #projects