Paul's Weblog

Re: https://email-is-good.com/2023/11/27/emailyourname-com/ I recently found out about Chris Coyier’s “Email is good.” blog which is all about email productivity.

Just want to view the restaurants?

I’ve been waffling on deciding what analytics service to try out for a while and finally decided to commit and try out GoatCounter (GC) on this website.

tl;dr Incorporated by The Legion of Doom isn’t available on Spotify1.

lights; sounds energy; chanting please just play one more song Context and background: I’m usually more into haikus as a small & highly structured poem.

Somewhat recently1 I decided to dynamically add the latest semver release to the technical documentation for a personal project of mine, bic.

tl;dr go to /subscribe?

These are ad-hoc notes / thoughts from things I jotted down and things in retrospective of some recent Frontend Masters workshops I attended in December 2023.

2024-01-23: Brief update, Chris Coyier noted that the typical budget for Boost contributions is $300 USD: https://github.com/philipkiely/whopaystechnicalwriters/issues/176#issuecomment-1905170072 I started learning programming a bit over a decade ago towa…

tl;dr if you are charging money, you should have a /pricing URL full stop.

I’ve been idly intrigued by #100DaysToOffload for a couple years—the core reason being I wished I wrote more.

I recently read Jean Hsu’s “Ask vs guess culture” article as it came across my feed.

About a month ago I picked up a Remarkable 2, which is an e-ink tablet marketed towards folks wanting to primarily write—either with the proprietary keyboard folio or marker.

dread. and full of it. what comes next?

I recently decided I wanted a dark-mode-specific logo for the GitHub README on one of my personal projects.

I haven’t mentioned it much, but I’ve had a casual podcast with a friend since late 2018.

I now publish drafts.

Note from the author—that’s me: this was originally written over 2 years ago back in February 2021.

Woohoo!

Fingers on the home row.

“Do One Thing And Do It Well” — McIlroy Earlier this week I ran a brew upgrade bats-core1 to get my copy of bats caught up to the v1.5.0 release.

I like ASCII art.

Sometimes I find re-wording something makes it entirely less opaque and entirely more transparent.

I’ve been getting emails for a while about the Let’s Encrypt ACMEv1 API being deprecated in favor of the newer ACMEv2.

Another announcement-style post: the theming on this site has been improved.

In a recent HN thread I came across the term “decision paralysis” which has stuck with me.

In a recent James Hoffmann video, James recommended giving your dosed, unground beans a spritz of water before grinding1.

Versioning, like naming things, can be hard.

I’ve been watching Halt & Catch Fire recently.

Some site updates over the past ~month that may or may not have been noticed.

I’ve been working with {{mustache}}-y1 templates recently.

“You can email me at oh-em-gee dot el-oh-el.”

Today I learned XML documents can have stylesheets!

Bash is full of footguns.

Welcome to my 2nd post in my “Vintage RockHopper Steel Frame 650B Singlespeed Conversion” buildlog.

Note: realized this <guid> change isn’t necessarily durable against renaming old post filenames.

Unnatural fire: give me warmth, light, coziness albeit unreal.

a11y?

OK, so, hear me out: I need a project for the rapidly approaching winter.

Guard the alpacas.

I’m a bit of a Patagonia fan—especially their Worn Wear program.

Sipping a latte entitled Sage Against The Machine.

I recently tried making Maple cream.

I recently wrote about adding a Pi-hole to my local network.

First, it actually wasn’t 70 miles—only ~64 according to Strava.

“a beautiful, intensely complicated way not to write a bash script” — David I do a podcast with a friend.

Note: Since the initial draft in February 2019, there’s been some updates in terms of what I’ve done & what Framed now offers.

Back in late 2018, Gulp 4 was (finally) released as the default version installed with npm install gulp.

I recently added a Pi-hole to the local network of my apartment (shared with another roommate, potentially relevant later).

How many sites use {robots,humans,security}.txt files?