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As someone who uses Netlify’s Starter plan to host this site, the following situation is the kind of nonsense that keeps me up late at night… On February 24th, an invoice was issued to a Starter plan user of Netlify for a substantial amount of bandwidth usage. Our internal system … | Continue reading
For the longest time, it has driven me mad that my records get out of alignment any time I slide one out to play. To solve this problem, Turntable Revival sells wooden back spacers for cube shelves (Ikea Kallax, Target Threshold, Walmart - Better Homes & Gardens) to straighten yo … | Continue reading
Personal sites are a great testing ground for mixing it up and experimenting. Back when Gatsby first started buzzing in Jamstack circles, I used that as my excuse to migrate off Jekyll and learn something new. As someone who avoids writing JavaScript whenever possible, there were … | Continue reading
A common ask of Jekyll, Gatsby, and other static site generator users is, “how do I automatically set the date in YAML front matter?” Today I learned you can do just that with a Git pre-commit hook. If your project has been setup with git init you should have a Git hooks director … | Continue reading
Before you can link pages and assets together with Jekyll, you need to know how it assigns URLs (or permalinks1) to each. If you are a seasoned Jekyll users and have a good understanding of how this all works, skip down below to linking methods. This tutorial will explain the var … | Continue reading
Jekyll’s site url and baseurl variables cause a lot of confusion for users. I see it all the time in the Jekyll Talk forum, Stackoverflow, or as bug reports in my themes. My Jekyll site works locally but when I push it up to GitHub Pages it is broken with no styling and looks lik … | Continue reading
This is the post where I talk about neglecting the site and pledge to blog more… wait, wasn’t I suppose to do this on January 1st? Jokes aside, the last year and half I haven’t felt like writing. Between my “real” job, open source projects, COVID-19, buying and selling a house du … | Continue reading
2 Little Rosebuds is a blog written by my wife Wendy Rose. The site started as a place for her to post about our twin girls and morphed into an outlet for her growing addiction to subscription boxes. My responsibilities on the site include: Wordpress installation and maintenance. … | Continue reading
First time doing a year in review post thingy. The statistics below are just for fun as there’s nothing to compare them against yet. Should be interesting to see how they deviate next year as I would have never guessed some would be as high as they were. 2019 by the numbers 1 blo … | Continue reading
Slowly but surely, I’ve been chipping away at my site’s build time on Netlify. There’s little left for me to optimize until Jekyll drops some nice updates in version 4.0. I’ve cached the rendering of Liquid includes across _layouts via the {% include_cached %} tag, limited use of … | Continue reading
Lately I’ve been toying with the idea of migrating from Jekyll to GatsbyJS (more on that in a future post). Initial tests look promising, but there are some issues I’m still working through. In the meantime I’ve taken visual cues from React components I built in a repo where I wa … | Continue reading
Portrait of Marie M. inspired by a photograph on Sktchy. Digitally painted with Procreate on a 12.9″ iPad Pro. Approximately 6 hours of work spread across a couple of weeks. ~6 hours of work spread across a couple of weeks, because who has time? pic.twitter.com/faECZVYPSP — … | Continue reading
Portrait of Ale B. inspired by a photograph on Sktchy. Digitally painted with Procreate on a 12.9" iPad Pro. Two hours and 30 minutes of beard scribbling over the last couple of weeks. Because who has time to relax draw in a single sitting? Time-lapse export video via #Procreate … | Continue reading
Portrait of Tatha S. inspired by a photograph on Sktchy. Digitally painted with Procreate on a 12.9″ iPad Pro. Using Apple Pencil to lay lines. Procreate time-lapse export pic.twitter.com/Xw5ozxENYI — 𝔐𝔦𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔢𝔩 ℜ𝔬 … | Continue reading
Portrait of Foggy 365 digitally painted with Procreate on an iPad. | Continue reading
Portrait of Maya Z. inspired by a photograph on Sktchy. Digitally painted with Procreate on a 12.9″ iPad Pro. Slowly building up tones. #Procreate time-lapse export pic.twitter.com/dSNE7fKHWb — 𝔐𝔦𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔢𝔩 ℜ𝔬𝔰&#x … | Continue reading
Portrait of Marion K. digitally painted with Procreate on an iPad. | Continue reading
Portrait of Lunar Ashes digitally painted with Procreate on an iPad. | Continue reading
Lessons learned from building, optimizing, and deploying a huge static site with everyone's favorite SSG — Jekyll. | Continue reading
Interesting styling possibilities with Kramdown syntax highlighted code blocks in Jekyll. | Continue reading
Site design and creative for Relic Scout — an app to make collecting simpler, while saving you money. | Continue reading
Site design and creative for Eko Wave — a team specializing in niche applications. | Continue reading
Your new Jekyll default theme. | Continue reading
Learn how to use static files with Jekyll to create a gallery of images automatically without a plugin. | Continue reading