Keir Whitaker

The Love of a Grilled Cheese

I’ve always been a fan of American Diners. There’s something, well, so American about them. Over the years, I have sought them out and enjoyed the “utility coffee”, aged leather bench seats, the yellow mustard and the ludicrously big menus. Eggs every which way, toast, home…

Host and Path in Shopify Themes

Recently I’ve been looking into some new Shopify and Liquid features that were recently announced.

One thing that caught my eye, and quietly slipped into the platform is the request object. If you are using the same theme over multiple storefronts…

Back Stories with Oliver Lindberg

In this episode of Back Stories, I chat with Oliver Lindberg — founder of the new Pixel Pioneers web conference series and all round content guru.

Adding Comments to a Jekyll Blog

Earlier this year I published an article titled Rebuilding keirwhitaker.com with Jekyll which documented my move from the Slim PHP micro-framework to Jekyll.

In that article I described how I used Jekyll to add a blog function to this site. One…