In July 2013 I published a blog post, Outsourcing your Blog engine’s functionality , that foretold this site’s current architecture. I had originally written the post two years prior but forgot about it in my drafts folder. At the time I had no…
Now that the clickbait title is out of the way, here are the disclaimers: YMMV. You may not actually save $40/month but I did. I used to have a lot of personal project sites including this one. A decade ago I switched from hosting a couple of sites…
I had previously used Disqus for post comments on my Graffiti blog and I wanted to continue doing so for the new Gatsby blog using react-disqus-comments . The urls for posts were basically unchanged so it seemed like there should not be any…
[ NOTE: I wrote this blog post over 2 years ago and recently found it in my Windows Live Writer drafts. I must have saved it to come back later and do some editing but forgot about it. It seems to be fairly up to date so I’m hitting the Publish…
It was a much needed facelift. I liked the functionality of my previous blog home page and I liked the way it was implemented (mostly using JQuery plugins), but the design felt too cluttered and was just … well… ugly. Mostly it felt like too much of…
