Well, it was time for another blog redesign.
I’d been wanting to do something with this for a while, because I had still been coasting on the Tailwind Next.js design for a few years.
I’d also liked some of the experimentation around tweaks to the traditional blog format (e.g. fragments, til, or now) so… I added them all as part of this. If nothing else, my hope is that this will encourage me to engage more here than on social media.
I’ve also set up POSSE Party so that, even though I don’t really plan to engage with social media, my posts will still go up there.
If you want to know what fragments are, the idea is really from Martin Fowler. I’m not doing anything original here.
If anything, this is a lot more like my really old posts. I used to drop completely random posts that, at this point, are more on the embarrassing side of things. But I’m keeping them up.
I’d like to post these on a semi-regular cadence, though.
The TIL (i.e. “Today I Learned”) posts idea has been around for a while, but these are just snippets that are things I didn’t know about. I’ve been tracking these in Obsidian (when I remember to write them down), so I just wrote a little snippet of code with the Obsidian CLI to pull them over here.
Some of these things are on really old topics, mostly because as we help our clients at work, they sometimes need help with really old things. Will this be relevant to you? Probably not. But it is there, too.
The “now” idea is comes entirely from Derek Sivers. You can see examples via https://nownownow.com/about.
In theory, this will be my somewhat up to date status, assuming I keep it up to date.
Besides those things, it is redesigned. Before you ask, yes I did use LLMs to help. I both enjoy using these tools and also miss the craft of coding. In this case, though, it did help me come up with a lot of ideas regarding the design.
This post, though, was written entirely by me.
Enjoy!