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Timo Geusch from The Lone C++ Coder's Blog
One “biggie” that was holding up this blog’s migration to a static site was getting a comments system up and running, followed by importing the existing comments. I had picked Isso a while back as it allows for easy import of existing comments from WordPress. I really didn’t want to depend on a third party […]
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Timo Geusch from The Lone C++ Coder's Blog
Now that I’ve got the static site up and running, it’s obviously time to switch over immediately, right? Not to fast. After QA’ing my deployment process in production, it was time to check how the two compared from a performance perspective. I like to use several different tests, starting with Pingdom, then using PageSpeed Insights […]
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Timo Geusch from The Lone C++ Coder's Blog
Ah yes, the guy who used wear the “I don’t often test my code, but if I do, I do it in production” T-shirt in an ironic way followed his own advice, unironically. The deployment script was ultra efficient and mainly removed the static site when updating it. Think about all the bandwidth this conserved! […]
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Timo Geusch from The Lone C++ Coder's Blog
I have been toying with the idea of migrating this blog to a static site to simplify its maintenance for some time. While WordPress is a great tool, this blog is a side project and any time I have to spend maintaining WordPress gets deducted from the time I have to write for the blog. […]
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Timo Geusch from The Lone C++ Coder's Blog
I mentioned in my previous post that I somehow had ended up with a non-working org2blog installation. My suspicion is that this was triggered by my pinning of the htmlize package to the “wrong” repo. I had it pinned to marmalade rather than melpa-stable, and marmalade had an old version of htmlize (1.39, from memory). […]
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Timo Geusch from The Lone C++ Coder's Blog
Straight from the “make work for yourself because there aren’t enough hours in the day already” files. I’ve mentioned before that I am self-hosting this blog rather than using a hosted instance. I hosted the WordPress instance on FreeBSD and it’s been running quite well for a while, but during a double FreeBSD port upgrade […]
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Timo Geusch from The Lone C++ Coder's Blog
Farewell, Digg Reader Unfortunately, Digg announced that Digg Reader is shutting down tomorrow. While I never used Digg Reader as my main RSS feed reader – I’ve got a paid subscription to Feedly – I was very happy to use it as a backup reader for those feeds that weren’t always that great at adhering […]
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Timo Geusch from The Lone C++ Coder's Blog
Trying to export you Wordpress blog to Jekyll? Here's how to get rid of the pesky UTF-8 special character codes.
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