Jack.is typing

After moving to Zed as my primary editor, I’ve slowly been working on replacing various tools and nice to haves from VS Code and trying to solve them in Zed.

Bluesky is great (as evidenced by my multiple posts on it), but I wanted to own my data more than it living on the Bluesky servers.

Have we yak shaved enough yet on comments?

Having comments on my blog with Bluesky is pretty nice, but what’s not so nice is having to bring in the entire @atproto/api package.

I’ve finally made my own favicon (inspired by the un-imitable Robb), instead of just using the generic Astro one that everyone gets when you make a website.

Imagine it’s the late 90s, and you want to see what the New York Times has to say about your favorite political topic this week.

After being inspired by Emily Liu’s post on how to do Bluesky comments, I thought I could add it here too, but with one minor plus to it.

Doing an analytics showdown on the site here between a few services to see which one shall win for 2025.

All the dust should have finally settled from the tweaks I’ve made to the site.

So, Bluesky is now a thing.

We (I?

So turns out that I had some mismatched links (trailing slash vs no trailing slash) and keeping track of all the places where they were mixed up was impossible.

If you’re running a site that dynamically generates content, you should probably do some sort of caching to prevent your site from exploding whenever someone posts it on Mastodon and friends.

After literal years of jonesing for it, I’ve finally gotten jack.is as a domain.

A semi-deep dive into the newly deployed plttn.me.

Pardon the dust.

Goodbye Atom I wanted to like Atom, and I was one of those stubborn ones who had been putting off trying VS Code for probably years and continued to use Atom and putting up with the subpar performance, even on a relatively overpowered computer.

So there’s only about 30 50 thousand pages on this general topic, but I found that about half of them were out of date, so I figured I should try and collect all the info into one big post.