This week, Malcolm Gladwell joined the ranks of people yelling at workers to get back to work. Like many of the people arguing for a return to office work, they tell us they don’t believe it’s possible to do good work unless you are under management observation. It’s not in your best interest to work […]
Over the course of the past couple of months, I have been writing a great deal about DevOps and Continuous Delivery. This isn’t my first rodeo, as they say, as I’ve worked on teams that have been using Continuous Delivery (and before that, Lean, Agile, and adaptive techniques such as Extreme Programming). I’ll post links […]
This post is really about the Ruby language gsub string method. It does contain a tiny bit of Jekyll hooks, but they are important to me and perhaps not to you. If you just want to know how to extract a match in gsub and use it in the output, scroll down to the bottom […]
You don’t really need a plugin to add a sitemap to your Jekyll site. You can use this basic template and extend as required. To give you control over whether a page appears in the sitemap, I’ve used an additional header in the front-yaml on each page. You can see below the additional date and […]
I walked up and down quite a long hotel corridor a few times today and observed an interesting process for cleaning. Without going into details, the result of all the effort was a line of partially cleaned rooms. If you have partially cleaned twenty rooms, the number of clean rooms is zero. It’s the same […]
There are three parts to this quick start on running Jekyll on Windows. This assumes you pulled an existing Jekyll repo and want to run it locally. If you want to create something new, there’s a command for that, which you can run at the end of the install process before you serve the site […]
The Web is an amazing open platform, but a few times in the history of The Web we have faced challenges keeping it in great shape. When Microsoft had a browser monopoly with Internet Explorer, they were required not only to allow competing browsers but to actively prompt users to select from competitor browsers. We […]
This is just a quick not on how to run a bash script with parameters in GitHub actions, and how to use the passed argument in the script. GitHub Action Here’s the jobs section of the GitHub action, but the last line is the interesting bit as this calls the script. The argument is simply […]
This is just a quick note on an adaptation of a great idea from Go Make Things (a site FILLED with great stuff, by the way). This defers loading all the YouTube stuff (the iframe and all it’s assets) until the user clicks to play it – basically avoiding loading the assets unless the user […]
This is the second old-school post this week. Hey, I’m clearing the decks of some odd stuff that I had to do. Today, it’s uploading all files in a folder (but not sub-folders) to FTP, if they have been updated in the past 24 hours. There’s not much to explain here. It’s a simple System.Net.WebClient […]