mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Working on the web since 1998. Senior Engineering Director at Upstatement, lover of content management systems. Currently living just outside Philadelphia.
Puns and 🥧 are both appreciated.
My tech note about how the website team at Unbreaking enhanced footnotes and sidenotes went up last week on the blog:
https://unbreaking.org/blog/tech-note-sidenotes/
(There’s probably a whole separate Eleventy-focused post on this for my personal site if I ever get around to writing it)
Criterion flash sale mail day
“Being inefficient is my form of luxury” where do I get the t-shirt
The early spring was so busy that we missed the cherry blossom festival in Philly, and they were already fading during our Easter-weekend trip to the DC area. But we did catch some on a quick walk through Haverford College
Zoom Notes decided to be helpful and offer to transcribe my phone call piped to my computer (macOS). Love* a new and intrusive feature I did not ask for!
*Do not love
A sunset from a month ago, in Bethesda, MD
RE: https://me.dm/@anildash/116493908828951478
I still post most of my public photos to Flickr, for many of the reasons Anil Dash talks about in his post. This, especially, struck a chord:
> The beautiful thing about communities and platforms like Flickr is that they remind us that not everything on the internet has to be ephemeral, not everything on the web has to be hyper-commercial. Sometimes a bunch of decent people can do a good thing for the right reasons, and the result of that work can persevere for decades.
Philly is gradually getting more Filipino restaurants. We went to Baby’s this past March for Jordan’s birthday: https://markllobrera.com/posts/jordans-birthday-2026/
Springtime is for changing the switches in your mechanical keyboard.
Last photo post for the day: Madison Cunningham at her Philly (Ardmore) stop on the Ace tour, in early April
https://markllobrera.com/posts/madison-cunningham-ardmore-music-hall-april-2026/
In March my friend Jen Dary stopped by Philly to do a reading for her book “I Believe in Everything”, and I got to moderate the event:
https://markllobrera.com/posts/jen-dary-i-believe-in-everything-philly/
A trio of B+W images from the Barnes Foundation in Philly:
https://markllobrera.com/posts/barnes-foundation-february-2026/
Ended up simplifying how I handle image galleries—basically any post with images has a lightbox gallery treatment applied.
