Development

I’m writing this entirely from my Android phone! I spent quite a few hours trying to figure out how to get a clone of my git repository on here and hit a lot of dead ends. I tried multiple sets of instructions for AIDE and mGit with no success. Finally I found the Termux app which actually supports everything I need! For some reason Termux was not coming up in any of my searches for git clients on Android.

I started setting up Hugo to run my site. Hopefully this will decrease the friction for blogging and I’ll start writing more, but I make no promises. So far Hugo seems to be a pretty straight forward site generator. After developing Adobe Experience Manager customizations professionally for 5 years this feels nice and simple. When I was picking between the various blogging platforms I had a number of criteria: Minimal Set Up Full Control Over Design and Markup Minimal Cost (this quickly led me to static site generators) Markdown support Full Control over site structure I also looked at IndieWeb support.

So I finally took the time to set up https on my site. For some reason I thought it was going to be harder. Many thanks to the Let’s Encrypt guys for making this the most braindead simple process in the world. I feel bad for not having done it before. I guess I just expected it to be more involved. I’ve been trying to bite the bullet and actually complete things on my TODO list lately.

I decided a few weeks ago that it is time to remove Google Analytics from my site. I initially included it so that I could mess around with the service because I occasionally use it for work. Since then I haven’t used it at all and I realized that this is just one more source feeding the Google ad machine. No one visits my site now. They have no reason to, but I do want to start creating more content here.