Made Mistakes - design faux pas by Michael Rose

Curated writing

Long form writing mostly about web development and design.

Lessons learned from building, optimizing, and deploying a huge static site with everyone's favorite SSG — Jekyll.

Learn how to use static files with Jekyll to create a gallery of images automatically without a plugin.

How to use Staticman to add threaded comments and reply notifications to a static-based Jekyll site.

Learn how to create impressive effects with 53's Pencil stylus and Paper app, using exclusive features like Blend and Surface Pressure.

Thoughts, inspiration, mistakes, and other minutia.

A common ask of Jekyll, Gatsby, and other static site generator users is, “how do I automatically set the date in YAML front matter?” Today…

Before you can link pages and assets together with Jekyll, you need to know how it assigns URLs (or permalinks) to each. If you are a…

Jekyll’s site and variables cause a lot of confusion for users. I see it all the time in the Jekyll Talk forum, Stackoverflow, or as bug…

This is the post where I talk about neglecting the site and pledge to blog more… wait, wasn’t I suppose to do this on January 1st? Jokes…