Not so quick Gatsby site optimizations
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?
Notes
Short, bite sized thoughts, inspirations, mistakes, and other minutia. The sort of scraps you’d jot down in a notebook to remember for later…
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Slowly but surely, I’ve been chipping away at my site’s build time on Netlify.
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Autumn refresh
Using CSS Grid Layout Module to redesign a Jekyll site and further improve performance and accessibility.
Configuring publishing sources for GitHub Pages
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Using SSI to detect cookies
In my never ending quest to micro-optimize the hell out of my site, I ran into a snag when trying to use SSI directives to improve the loading of critical CSS and cached stylesheets.
Inktober failure
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Enter to win a portrait of your choice drawn by Michael Rose in his signature PaperFaces style.
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