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Blogging
Building a personal website, choosing tools, and making room for writing.
Chasing accurate analytics: Server-side vs client-side analytics
Comparing server and browser analytics through accuracy, performance, privacy, and the limits of each approach.
How to add custom headers to Eleventy with Cloudflare Pages
Adding security headers to an Eleventy site on Cloudflare Pages, including the passthrough copy step.
The age of the devtool startup
Why the 2021 wave of developer tool startups made me hopeful about funding open source work.
Wasted real estate: Blog homepage design
Making a blog homepage a thoughtful introduction, with curated writing and projects that show what matters to you.
Setting up Gatsby Webmentions on your site
Connecting Gatsby, Webmention.io, and Bridgy to display social responses beneath blog posts.
Best blog designs I want to steal everything from
A tour of the personal blogs that inspired my 2020 redesign, and the details I love about them.
Choosing a blogging platform: Gatsby vs. Wordpress vs. 11ty
Weighing the writing experience, maintenance, and flexibility of three blogging platforms during my 2020 rebuild.
Eleventy has me feeling more connected with my website
Why moving from Gatsby to Eleventy brought me closer to the HTML and CSS behind my blog.
Add a Service Worker to Jekyll blog on GitHub Pages
Adding offline support to a Jekyll blog on GitHub Pages with the Workbox command-line tools.