My good and wise friend Chris Carfi1 had a novel thought about my commentary dilemma yesterday:
There’s another path, too. For the past twenty-plus years, we’ve all had our own printing presses (and for the last fifteen of those years, they’ve been ...
Long time friend of the program, Jay, asked me:
Anyway, I was just wondering if you had made any decisions about a comments section on your blog posts. I enjoyed hearing the comments and replies of your followers on FB…. Everyone seemed fu...
I’ve never lived through a hurricane. In the Midwest, the natural disasters come at you too fast to do anything but run down and hide in the basement. You don’t have a lot of time to prep, or to fret. So I can only imagine what it feels l...
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Another post about the blog infrastructure itself. I know. But the events of the larger world are a little too overwhelming to get my arms around at the moment, and my beloved White Sox hiring a walking, talking Blue Lives Matter flag f...
UPDATE 2020-10-23 20:15 CDT
I simplified the whole thing. Now there’s just a single opt-in step. You still get a confirmation email, but you don’t have to click anything to make it work. I also went into the database and just updated ever...
OK, I think the subscription system is finally ready to go! Big, big thanks to the beta testers who helped shake out the bugs.
But I suppose the question you may be grappling with is why? Why should I subscribe? And what exactly am I subscribing to? ...
UPDATE: The beta test is now over. Thanks to everyone who helped! I’ll be putting this into production shortly.
OK, I think I finally have enough bugs beaten out of my email subscription management system to make it ready for a public beta tes...
It’s infrastructure weekend at the old blogaroo. Many exciting things are happening!
Migrating the site to a bigger EC2 instance running Centos 8.2, and all the packages that come with that. ✅ Upgrading to a new version of the blog rendering...
I’m hard at work on an email subcription thingy for this blog. I can reliably be counted on to spend a ton of time on the infrastructure of a thing before I actually use the thing. Examples include pedalboards I’ve built, offices I’...
Before and after, left-to-right: I repotted lemon tree 4.0 last weekend. We upgraded her from a 10-inch pot to a 14-incher. For those who are new here (that’d be everyone), this is a plant that I’ve been growing since last winter from a...
about the blogger Your friendly proprietor splits his time between the suburbs of both Chicago and Boston, never far from the Lagrange points described by the gravity wells of family, work, and recreation. Interests include, but are not limited to, p...
