How I'm using Jekyll in 2017
Lessons learned from building, optimizing, and deploying a huge static site powered by everyone's favorite SSG — Jekyll.
Made Mistakes is the personal site of Michael Rose.
I'm just another boring, tattooed, time traveling designer from Buffalo New York who enjoys eating chicken wings, sketching on an iPad Pro, building with static site generators, and playing Nintendo Switch.
Featured articles
Improving static comments with Jekyll & Staticman
Using Staticman to add threaded comments and reply notifications to a static-based Jekyll site.
Going static part 2: static comments
Integrating a static-based commenting system into Jekyll with the help of Staticman and ditching Disqus in the process.
Mastering Pencil by FiftyThree
Learn how to use Pencil by FiftyThree and features like Blend and Surface Pressure to pull off impressive effects in Paper for iOS.
Mastering Paper for iOS: drawing portraits and faces
Advanced techniques for drawing and painting portraits using the iPad app Paper for iOS.
Mastering Paper for iOS: back to the basics
A refresher tutorial on Paper for iOS drawing and painting techniques, along with color theory principles for good measure.
Recent posts
Twenty Nineteen
First time doing a year in review post. The statistics contained are just for fun as there's nothing to compare them against yet.
Faster Netlify builds
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…
Autumn refresh
Using CSS Grid Layout Module to redesign a Jekyll site and further improve performance and accessibility.
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Articles
Long form writing mostly about design and web development.
Notes
Thoughts, inspiration, mistakes, and other minutia you’d find in a blog.
Works
Hand-picked selection of things I've designed, illustrated, and developed.
Mastering Paper
Tutorials to help master the iOS drawing app— Paper
Contact
Preferred methods of sending questions, messages, and love letters to me.
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Frequently asked questions
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Archive of all posts organized by topic.