Posts in “Meta”

Adding Comments to My Jekyll Site

I've been working on adding support for comments over the last few months. On a static site, that's hard, but it's finally done.

📅 21 November 2025

Giving My Jekyll Site a CDN Front End

I've managed to get my Jekyll based site working behind Bunny CDN, while maintaining my .htaccess redirects. Here's how I did it...

📅 14 November 2025

Switching from Buttondown to Sendy

I've spent some time this afternoon switching my email subscription system from the fantastic Buttondown, to a self-hosted Sendy instance.

📅 07 October 2025

Switching Back to Jekyll & Building My Own CMS

After flip-flopping about what I'm going to do with this site, I decided to flip to Jekyll and build my own little CMS while I'm at it. Because why not? 🤷🏻‍♂️

📅 30 September 2025

Making Some Website Changes

I published a post about simplifying this site recently, I've made some changes, but I don't think I've simplified much.

📅 20 September 2025

Thinking About Simplification

This site’s a fun playground, but it’s evolved into a cluttered maze. Lately I’ve been wondering if it’s time to strip it down so I can focus on writing.

📅 14 September 2025

💭 What Others Said...

I've been reading a lot about blog interactions, community echos, and manual Webmentions recently. So I decided to jump on the bandwagon and roll my own.

📅 26 August 2025

A New Lick of Paint

So I've been playing around with a new design for this site for a couple of weeks now, and it's finally to the point where I think it's good to go live.

📅 16 July 2025

Doing a Jack Baty...?

I've been thinking about a changing some stuff up around here lately, but I'm on the fence as to what to do. You could say I'm doing a Jack Baty...

📅 20 June 2025

RSS Feed Changes

You've probably seen a load of unread RSS items from my feed, sorry about that. Here's why...

📅 24 January 2025