In 1985, at the age of eleven, I bought my first comic book: The Transformers #9. From there, I went on to collect nearly a thousand comics over my teenage years, mostly in the Marvel universe like Spider-Man and X-men. Lots of Groo the Wanderer (which my mom always enjoyed) and then into stuff like Watchmen and The Sandman. Bill…
Jonathan Snook
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25 Jul
21 Jul
I came across this fun little comic titled We Didn’t Lose the Plot. It has a straightforward conclusion: more things should come to an end. The “things” referred to here is media like books and movies and television but I’d extend it to many other things as well. Like web projects. So often, things are built in the attempt to…
18 Jul
One thing I like about 11ty is that common tasks for development oriented blogs are easily handled and syntax highlighting is no exception. I installed the Syntax Highlighting Plugin just like the documentation asked me to. Then, I had to modify my code blocks in my blog post Markdown files to indicate what language they were. Thankfully, I had only…
16 Jul
When I was building this site, I was keeping it lean but perhaps a bit messy. It’s not a big complex site and I didn’t need to write CSS to maintain a big complex site. As such, I even wondered if I’d stick to any kind of naming convention. Old habits are hard to break and I found anytime I…
15 Jul
A week ago, I had launched this site using QuatroSlab for page titles and Google’s Slabo for body copy. For those that have been around awhile and are familiar with SMACSS, you might recognize QuatroSlab from that site. I like the font and started off with it to see how I’d feel about it on the this new design. Then…
12 Jul
Welcome to the beginning. The end happened months ago but like many endings, sometimes they take awhile. The End Snook.ca has, for the better part of of the last 25 years, been mostly a professional outlet for me. What started out as “Technical Articles” turned into “a collection of tips, tricks, and bookmarks on web development” to just “Tips, Tricks,…
5 Apr
I mentioned last year about the mixtapes my brother used to make. Well, just the other week, my mom mentioned that she still had a bunch of her tapes and that my brother’s mixtapes might be in amongst them and sure enough, I found the very tape that I remember most. Named aptly, A Whole Bunch of Good Songs Vol…
16 Mar
It’s mid-March and the weather has been vacillating between balmy sweater weather and the frozen tundra that need hollowed out tauntauns to stay warm. I’ve chosen to sequester myself indoors until some semblance of summer remains with relative consistency. Estate I’ve been using some of that time to review all things financial. With both my kids now in adulthood, I’ve…
24 Feb
I’ve lived in Ottawa since I was a teenager. In all of the time I’ve lived here, there has been a tourist attraction: The Rideau Canal Skateway. Every winter, the National Capital Commission prepares and maintains one of the longest skating rinks in the world at just over 7 kilometres in length. Despite the availability and proximity to this attraction,…