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Blogging

A collection of 16 posts

The pros and cons of moving back to Ghost

OK, it's happening again. Hugo broke my site for the second time in two updates. I got mad (again) and decided it was time for us to break up. I dusted off the version of the blog that I'd built using Eleventy and started working on

Eleventy

💡UPDATE: As of November 6, 2024, we're back on Ghost You may have noticed that I’ve changed blogging tools again. After being mad at Hugo for a few days, I dusted off the old version I’d built using Eleventy. As fast, flexible, and powerful Hugo is,

Adding Expires headers to Caddy

Performance is important, of course, but I honestly don’t fuss too much over it on my sites. At least I don’t let it get in the way of publishing how I want to publish. For example, I don’t bother with a CDN because I don’t want

Micro.blog revisited

It’s been a couple weeks since moving my blog back to Hugo and, surprisingly, I’m perfectly happy with it. However, I’m not as sure about these daily notes posts. I often manually crosspost from here to Mastodon, and wonder if maybe I’d prefer having that happen

Sooo...Hugo again?

Remember that time (last year) when I was still using Hugo for baty.net? Well, it’s back. Kirby CMS is great, and has been a blast to learn, but I’m kind of in a static-site mood right now. The old site’s repo was still on Github, so

Who am I responsible to here?

Whenever I change blogging platforms or domain names or simply post to several places, I feel a twinge of guilt. How will my “audience” feel about the changes? Does it confuse things? I sometimes get comments like, “I have trouble finding things you’ve written because they’re all over

Writing a blog using Tinderbox

Tinderbox is an unusual, powerful, quirky, and amazing piece of software. I don’t understand why more people don’t use it for everything. Maybe because it costs $298 and that’s expensive by today’s app store race-to-the-bottom pricing situation. It’s worth every penny, though. Before Emacs came

I'm already tired of Ghost

It's been, what, three days of moving my blog to Ghost(Pro)? I'm already off it. The whole idea was that I no longer want to worry about hosting or building or managing my blog. I want it easy and pleasant. I want an editor that

Posting with iA Writer

Ghost's post editor is quite nice, but it's not on the same level as a native, well-designed, dedicated writing app like, say iA Writer. iA Writer is a dream to write with, and it can post directly to Ghost. The down side is that it'

Here we go again, with Ghost

It's a long, tedious, repetitive story and you should probably skip it. The short version is that I've moved baty.net to Ghost...again. Building and/or hosting my own stuff has become less interesting to me lately. I'm finding managing git repos and