TIL - Made Mistakes

Adding last modified timestamps with Git

Today I learned how to automatically add last modified dates to Markdown files used by static site generators like Jekyll and Gatsby.

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…

Styling language specific code blocks with Jekyll

Interesting styling possibilities with Kramdown syntax highlighted code blocks in Jekyll.

Accessing static files in Jekyll

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

HTML inside Kramdown table cells with Jekyll

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…

Configuring publishing sources for GitHub Pages

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

Oil pastels are not pencils

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

CSS blur effect

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…

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.