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Chris Burnell is a Canadian Front End Developer / Design Systems Engineer. He has been a volunteer Organiser for the State of the Browser conference since 2018, having brought together over 60 leading speakers to the delight of 150+ attendees each year. He’s “Ravenous for CSS”, often found rabbit-hole deep-diving, and his Webmention Plugin for Eleventy helps people connect across the Fediverse and IndieWeb.

Chris Burnell is a Canadian Front End Developer / Design Systems Engineer. He has been a volunteer Organiser for the State of the Browser conference since 2018, having brought together over 60 leading speakers to the delight of 150+ attendees each year. He’s “Ravenous for CSS”, often found rabbit-hole deep-diving, and his Webmention Plugin for Eleventy helps people connect across the Fediverse and IndieWeb.

Chris Burnell is a Canadian Front End Developer / Design Systems Engineer. He has been a volunteer Organiser for the [State of the Browser](https://stateofthebrowser.com) conference since 2018, having brought together over 60 leading speakers to the delight of 150+ attendees each year. He’s [“Ravenous for CSS”](https://chrisburnell.com/tag/css/), often found [rabbit-hole deep-diving](https://chrisburnell.com/projects/), and his [Webmention Plugin](https://chrisburnell.com/eleventy-cache-webmentions/) for [Eleventy](https://11ty.dev) helps people connect across the [Fediverse](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse) and [IndieWeb](https://indieweb.org).

Chris Burnell is a Canadian Front End Developer / Design Systems Engineer. He has been a volunteer Organiser for the <a href="https://stateofthebrowser.com">State of the Browser</a> conference since 2018, having brought together over 60 leading speakers to the delight of 150+ attendees each year. He’s <a href="https://chrisburnell.com/tag/css/">“Ravenous for CSS”</a>, often found <a href="https://chrisburnell.com/projects/">rabbit-hole deep-diving</a>, and his <a href="https://chrisburnell.com/eleventy-cache-webmentions/">Webmention Plugin</a> for <a href="https://11ty.dev">Eleventy</a> helps people connect across the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse">Fediverse</a> and <a href="https://indieweb.org">IndieWeb</a>.

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I’m from Halifax, Nova Scotia; although, I started my career and lived in London, England for 12 years, spent a year and change in Singapore, and now I live in Halifax again!

Although I’ve been building websites since 2006, I’ve had my personal website since 2008, and it’s definitely my favourite thing that I own. My passion for the web drives me to help build a better web for tomorrow, and I pursue that through specialising in web & front end development (CSS in particular), design systems, learning and mentorship, technical writing and speaking, and conference/event organisation.

I also feed my passion for the web by continuously finding myself in rabbit hole deep-dives, which involve exhilirating research into something new and exciting to achieve some goal—more often than not, these deep-dives serve as inspiration for my projects.

I also love playing music, hiking and camping, cooking and baking bread, drinking craft beer, and playing video games and tabletop games here and there. Check out my Uses page too!

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You can find me elsewhere on the web through my links page.

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This website was built with Eleventy v3.1.0 and the following languages:

• HTML
• WebC
• Markdown
• Nunjucks
• CSS & SCSS
• JavaScript
• JSON
• XML
• YAML

This website also supports Webmentions (powered by Webmention.io), displayed at the bottom of relevant pages using my Eleventy plugin, eleventy-cache-webmentions.

The source code is available for your perusal on GitHub, and each page contains an edit link (in the footer) allowing you to go directly to the page’s source on GitHub.

No large language models were used in any of the writing on this website.