Articles tagged as "website"

This blog has evolved a lot since it began. I have learned new things over that time, and used what I have learned to improve the blog along the way. One thing quickly became obvious; having a personal website means a never-ending journey of tinkering and exploring. Having a space that you can truly call your own is a rarity on the modern web. Interacting with readers has been a blast. There are so many small blogs around the web if you know where to look, and reading posts on those blogs is now one of favourite activities. Blog posts can encompass anything from brilliant solutions to specific problems, to more mundane thoughts about which video games someone played in the past week. All of it is awesome.

Publishing a blog post should be quick and easy. While in the zone and writing down an idea frantically, it can be easy to slip up and make an error. This could be an invalid link, repeating a sentence, or spelling a word incorrectly. While nobody is expecting an immense level of editorial scrutiny, most readers would prefer a blog free of those errors over one with them. Fortunately, there are some nifty tools that can help with the proofreading process so that those errors are quickly caught before hitting publish. These tools will work for any editing and publishing flow where there is access to the files from the command line.

I like reading blogs from around the web in either miniflux or russ and for a while I thought it was just because they both used catppuccin[1]. However, I now think that it is because the reading environment is less cluttered, and there is nothing between me and the text that the author wrote. The web has become so cluttered that reading just text in a quiet environment with no bells and whistles feels like relaxing on an island with a good book and a cool glass of ice water.

When this post goes live, I will have removed analytics from the site. This was largely inspired by a post by Rach Smith, which made me think how necessary it was to check my dashboard only to see that most of my traffic was coming from github and vercel. I wasn’t interacting with any of the visitors the same way that I love interacting with people on mastodon, and so I began to think about how else I could spend the $10 a month I currently pay for the hosted analytics offering from Plausible.