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Nov 10, 2018
I put my frequently used links in a Hugo data template to cut down on copying and pasting between posts.
Theme Change and Pieces Section
Jun 29, 2018
Marginalia · site · buy me · drawing ·
Yeah I switched the theme back — with some changes. May take a bit for the CDN to catch up. Also still experimenting with how to organize things I want to sell.
May 26, 2018
Programming · site · ruby · hugo ·
May 13, 2018
Marginalia · site ·
Oct 31, 2017
I found Wellington, a Sass compiler written in Go.
Sep 20, 2017
Marginalia · site ·
Trying to add Disqus comments once again. I adjusted permalinks, since the old
/:section/:year/:title/structure seemed to confuse Disqus. Here’s hoping. I assigned aliases to content so that old links should work.
Jul 1, 2017
I try out archetype templates from the Hugo static site generator, smoothing the whole thing into my workflow with a bash script.
Jun 14, 2017
Marginalia · site · disqus ·
sigh Disqus discussions are hooking up to the wrong URLs again. Assigning discussions for posts to URLs that don’t point anywhere. Working on it, and also looking at alternate discussion tools.Apr 11, 2017
Programming · perl · site · mojolicious ·
I wrote a Perl script using utility features in Mojolicious to check all of the links in my Hugo site.
Mar 28, 2017
Marginalia · personal · site ·
New Twitter Account Just For The Site
Mar 18, 2017
Marginalia · site ·
Follow @randgeekery if Twitter is your news feed.
Mar 17, 2017
Marginalia · site · disqus ·
Disabling comments until I figure out why Disqus insists on loading the same discussion for all 2017 posts. Not crafts, just posts. I spent almost a week trying to figure this out, as multiple rounds of one day fixing followed by a couple days wondering if UrlMapper finished yet. Very frustrating. Comments are welcome via email or the social network links along each page.Nov 20, 2016
Marginalia · site ·
Another one of those “no I’m not dead” posts. Instead of writing I’ve been drawing quite a bit this year. The writing will resume. For now, enjoy a sample of my favorite sketches from the last several months.
Apr 17, 2016
I spent a little time this weekend creating yearly post archives for my Hugo site.
Sep 27, 2015
Hey it has been a while since I shuffled the site around completely. I’ll just redo the whole thing in Hugo.
Sep 14, 2015
I started writing about PNWPHP but got distracted and added “Suggested Reading” to my posts instead.
Sep 8, 2015
I can write Jekyll posts with reStructuredText now.
Jul 19, 2015 (Updated Aug 7, 2015)
Jekyll currently generates the HTML for my site. I am curious about the experimental collections feature, and whether it could be useful for me.
Jul 12, 2015
Octopress is “an obsessively designed toolkit for writing and deploying Jekyll blogs.” A blog post earlier this year by author Brandon Mathis described frustrations with Octopress 2, along with plans for Octopress 3. I didn’t use Octopress before, so I can’t tell you anything about how much better or worse the newest Octopress is. This release feels like a straightforward and useful extension to Jekyll. Apparently the older releases did not.
Mar 28, 2015
Marginalia · site ·
I enjoyed importing the coolnamehere content so much last weekend that I decided to import the posts from a neglected Blogspot blog this weekend. jekyll-import simplified the actual import process, though I still had a lot of manual cleanup to perform.
Mar 23, 2015
Marginalia · site ·
I got bored of the old coolnamehere pages effectively sitting outside of the site because of the way Jekyll - and pretty much every other static blogging system - treats pages as secondary to posts. It makes sense, anyways. Once you stop bikeshedding about where to put content in your elaborate directory structure, it gets easier to add stuff.
Jul 26, 2014
Programming · site · jekyll · ruby ·
Just don’t even ask. I am in a highly fickle phase with the Web site.
Jun 23, 2014
Marginalia · pelican · site ·
I know. I’m fickle. Maybe this one will stick for a while. Edit: Nope.
May 21, 2014
Marginalia · site ·
I’m not using Wordpress at the moment. Unless and until I change my mind, you should probably look here for the newest content.May 15, 2014
Marginalia · site · emacs · org ·
I have been exploring GNU Emacs recently. As part of that exploration, I decided to use o-blog. Why? Well. I want to blog more. I want to use Emacs more. I got tired of my WordPress blog. o-blog sits on top of Org mode, which is the Killer App of Emacs for me. Org mode is amazing. o-blog is nifty, and relatively easy to get started with. I have fiddled with the o-blog templates to suit my tastes. I replaced browser-side Less CSS with a bit of Sass at build time. Eventually I’ll port the Wordpress posts to o-blog and maybe the old static pages to something involving org-mode.
Blogroll because what the heck
Mar 20, 2014
Marginalia · site ·
John Davidson asked me to link to his Rails Tutorial pages. Seems reasonable enough. Exit links are just in a sidebar menu for now. I may give them their own page when I have a half-dozen or so.Jun 8, 2013
Marginalia · site ·
I just wanted to mention that the old coolnamehere content has been uploaded. There is an explanatory note here on the blog, too.
coolnamehere -> Random Geekery
Jun 5, 2013
Marginalia · site ·
So I used to have another site. I also used to have a Yahoo email account. The domain name was registered under a Network Solutions account using the Yahoo account. All was well for years.
Coolnamehere is open to the Commons
May 2, 2007 (Updated Mar 28, 2015)
The contents of coolnamehere are now officially available under the Creative Commons Attribution License. I am a coding geek by profession, but my main contribution to the world at large seems to be the odd assortment of notes, tutorials, and random tangents that make up coolnamehere. The site has become more useful to people as it has grown and evolved. It just doesn’t make sense to keep the material locked down under traditional copyright terms. If somebody wants to redistribute the Python Babysteps Tutorial for some strange reason, I say “Let them.” All I care about is that people know I’m the original author of that particular … let’s call it a “masterpiece.”
Stripping out contact popup for now
Feb 6, 2007
The host switch broke my contact form. That’s okay, though. I wasn’t happy with it in the first place. I’m just using a plain old email link for now. Sure, it’ll put gmail’s spam filter through the wringer, but it’s quick and easy.
Feb 3, 2007
The old Web host was fine, but I have been missing A2 Hosting recently. I just set coolnamehere under them. While I’m at it, this blog is officially the coolnamehere site news blog - in addition to the general geekiness you’ve been seeing here lately.