Searching this site using Pagefind

Note Pagefind is no longer used on this site, due to a theme change. I was made aware of Pagefind via a post by Bryce Wray. Pagefind is… Pagefind is a fully static search library that aims to perform well on large sites, while using as little of your users’ bandwidth as possible, and without hosting any infrastructure. Pagefind.app They had me at “…without hosting any infrastructure”. The theme I used to use included a nice search using Lunr....

July 30, 2022 · 582 words · Jack Baty

TMI?

The quote from Robert Greene that I posted yesterday has thrown me a little: [People] are far too present and familiar, their every move displayed on social media. That might make you relatable, but it also makes you seem just like everyone else. Robert Greene I don’t know how I feel about the idea that posting so much about myself makes me seem the same as everyone else. I always figured it showed how I was different....

June 23, 2022 · 336 words · Jack Baty

A new blog just for the hell of it

Here we are, running the show as a static blog, using Hugo. But why!? I suppose because I was bored and because it’s fun. ...

April 3, 2022 · 109 words · Jack Baty

Hey! Where'd all the posts go?

I finally did it. I broke this blog apart and archived 20 years of history. You see, I still wanted it to live here at baty.net but I didn’t want to keep lugging around 20 years of posts every time I built or deployed or moved things. So I started with a fresh copy of the theme, kept only the content from 2021, and moved all the archives to archive.baty.net. Yes, I understand that this means a bunch of broken links....

January 17, 2021 · 164 words · Jack Baty