About
About Me
My name is Stephen Childs and this is my personal website.
I work at the intersection of data and higher education. I have been deeply involved in the Institutional Research community in Canada, working at four post-secondary institutions and serving on the board of the Canadian Institutional Research and Planning Association from 2019 to 2023.
I am also interested in economics, history, tabletop role-playing games, board games and public policy.
I live at the end of one of the GO train lines with my family, a standard Poodle and a growing population of tarantulas.
The views expressed on this site are my own and don't reflect the view or policies of my current and former employers.
About this Site
The best time to start a blog was back in the 1990s, the second best time is now. I started this project both as a way to better understand web technology and because owning my own content is important to me.
This site uses the static site generator Pelican. which is written in Python, to generate files for each page on the site. Pelican uses the Jinja templating language to create themes. The site uses a custom theme based on Pico CSS.
The header font is Monogram by datagoblin and is available on itch.io. The main font is Noto Sans from Google Fonts.
Security
If you want to be sure that messages using Apple's iMessages are actually from me, my Public Contact Key Verification Code is below:
APKTIDtWna5UGggChamFYWw0rzquyLQvSBj_XGOtc-Ge4I-g6PAw
For more information see About iMessage Contact Key Verification (Apple Support)
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