Archive • Elise Shaffer • Buttondown

December 17, 2023

The Ruby logo is Copyright © 2006, Yukihiro Matsumoto and is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 I’ve done a lot in my career. From...

The Technical Decisions Behind My Website Redesign

December 10, 2023

Last week, I deployed a complete redesign of my personal website. I wrote briefly about the design decisions and iterations that went into the redesign. But,...

Redesigning My Website

December 3, 2023

Yesterday, I merged a redesign of my website and so far, people seem to really like it. This was a multi-week project to bring some new life to my website...

Dotbot Is Really Nice

August 22, 2023

I LOVE looking at other people’s dotfiles. There’s something great about looking at how someone has set up their development environment, taking inspiration...

I Miss Cucumber

I might be getting old. The other day, I was chatting with a coworker and waxing nostalgic about various tools and methods that I miss. The conversation had...

Joining The Linear Side

I’m standing at my desk writing this blog post and all I can think about is how great this keyboard feels. I’m falling in love with this keyboard: the...

Introducing Darklight.nvim

I made my first lua plugin for Neovim! It’s called Darklight.nvim and it makes it super simple to switch between dark mode and light mode colorschemes in...

So Long, Telepath

September 27, 2022

It feels weird to mourn the loss of a social networking app. I left Facebook in 2017 because the constant flood of Trump news was overwhelming. I left...

Content Warning: Dicussions of transphobia, and suicide TransLifeline’s website has been broken for a little bit now and I haven’t been able to reach anyone...

Representation.

January 4, 2021

I just finished reading Sovereign, the second book in the Nemesis series and really enjoyed it. I was going to do a review of the book, but after I finished...