Here's some advice about how to let Bundler know where to find your gem while you are developing on Read more

Having just once again suffered through the dimly remembered pain of learning about Jekyll, Liquid, and hash arrays, I am recording it here to save myself the next time I go for a few years between dealing with it. Official documentation does not say this (enough?), I guess because they think, "They can't, so let's not bother talking about it." This leaves the experienced programmer new to Liquid going "I should be able to do this, why can't I just assign myHash = { one: 1, two: 2 } or ["one" => "1", "two" => "2"] or some combination of braces and quotes or other punctuation? Do I just have the syntax wrong???"

Sometimes you decide that you just need a tag (and category) cloud. The top search result was from SuperDevResources by Kanishk Kunal, which worked pretty well, but I didn't like the sizes, and wanted to have fun colours. Here's my version: Read more

Many and varied are the ways to add comments to your static website. Most of them involve subscribing to services which, if you're running your own domain on your own server, might strike you as the wrong solution. "But," you might say, "if I want to have a comment system on my own site, it would not be static anymore. CGi's are so '90s and who needs the attack vector?"

I was trying to do a simple math thing with Ruby when it occured to me that maybe it wasn't working because I wasn't using an up to date Ruby. Since I was intending to upgrade Jekyll from 3.x to 4.x, I thought "let's just do it all!!!"