I am burrowed in a small cafe with soft music in the background and a warm coffee in hand. The heatwave in the bay area has broken and today I have nothing to do but read and write and read some more. I ought to to update the /newsletter page today since now I’m working on multiple newsletters at once. Also it would...

A standard heading: large, eye-catching text. It announces a new topic, organizes your writing, helps the reader skim. A small heading: it blends into the text. It says, rather than announces, that here is a new topic. An example Last week, I wrote the post Status update, where my topics were separated by horizontal...

Don’t Make a Blog, Make a Brain Dump 2022-09-10 Not enough people have personal blogs. This is a point brought up by many of those passionate about the “golden age” in the timeline of the modern internet. A time when websites were more like a small collection of winding side-streets and flea markets. Today, it’s all...

Learn best practices for writing Dockerfiles by using .dockerignore to optimize build times and exclude unnecessary files from the build context.

I gave up on analytics on my site a long time ago, but I was interested to see if anyone visits my site these days, so I built my own simple analytics.