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…
![I have given myself another home page facelift](/images/Windows-Live-Writer/f3b4244fa766_14DAB/CropperCapture%5B113%5D_thumb.jpg)
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…