Notes

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…

While inspecting the markup of some syntax highlighted code blocks I noticed something I hadn’t before, language-lexer classes:

<div class="language-css highlighter-rouge">
  <pre class="highlight">
    <code>.foo { color: red; }</code>
  </pre>
</div>

This extra hook¹ on the <div>…

While investigating ways of using static files with Jekyll for a site prototype I was building, I learned that site.static_files was a thing. What is it and…

The question of how to write a list inside of a table cell with Kramdown recently came up in a thread on Jekyll Talk — prompting me to look…

You know what sucks? Maintaining two separate branches of an open source project, just to host its source code and documentation together…

Not to overstate the obvious here, but oil pastels do not behave like colored pencils.

Their size and shape should have been enough to clue…

Playing with the new Depth Effect (aka fauxkeh) on my iPhone 7 Plus got me thinking about Gaussian blurs, and how to improve their use on…