Carter Baxter

@tbaxter
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Ex-designer, occasional dev, recovering journalist & lousy guitarist. Proud 18F alumni. These days I usually traffic in management musings, civic tech thoughts and bad jokes.
Don't blame my employer for the dumb things I say.
Personal sitehttps://another.rodeo

I wrote a thing about craft, humanity, our new robot overlords and The Artisanal Web

https://another.rodeo/artisanal-web/

The Artisanal Web | Another Rodeo

Craft, humanity, and our new robot overlords.

@deafferret It's stupid simple. "date' in the front matter would default to today, but if you set it to some other day, it respect that, as seen here: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tBaxter/another-rodeo/refs/heads/main/src/pages/bikes/peugeot-ph19-mixte.md
@deafferret in 11ty it’s very easy to set the date to whatever you want. I do this a lot when I’m recounting past projects.
@drahardja back when I was active on the old #django irc I knew someone developing such a thing. But that’s been awhile.
@oh_that_courtney you are the second person I’ve seen say this. Almost exactly
@codacode @[email protected] maybe a better drinker than a general, though.
@malarkey it’s not about the play, it’s about the execution. A bold play executed badly is still bad.
@mathowie Welcome to KC. Let me know if you need any recommendations!
@marcusolsson glad you liked it!

@cferdinandi It's been a lifetime since I wrote this, but I love seeing the ideas living on and gaining some traction.

https://alistapart.com/article/meaningful-css-style-like-you-mean-it/

Meaningful CSS: Style Like You Mean It

Our markup too often remains a snarl of divs, our CSS a chaos of classes. Tim Baxter urges us to move beyond that. We can use real objects now instead of abstract representations. We can write CSS …

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