Using Jekyll plugins with GitHub Pages in 2024
I’ve been avoiding adding pagination to this blog forever since GitHub Pages doesn’t allow the plugin by default. Now that we can deploy to Pages with GitHub Actions, I finally got it all working. I’ve done a couple hack jobs with GitHub Actions and Jekyll, but this new workflow is pretty simple. Here’s what it looks like.
ABCs of Unix
I was browsing through old gists and found an old one with the ABCs of Unix.
Please Make Your Table Headings Sticky
Someone on Hacker News posted Please Make Your Table Headings Sticky, a plea for web developers to make their table headings sticky.
The Three Virtues of a GREAT Programmer
According to Larry Wall(1), the original author of the Perl programming language, there are three great virtues of a programmer; Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
textart.sh
I stumbled on textart.sh today—a site with a ton of ASCII art.
PagerDuty’s Incident Response docs
I came across PagerDuty’s Incident Response docs today and was impressed by the depth of the content. It’s a great resource for anyone who is interested in learning more about incident response.
Hidden secrets of the FN key
This article outlines some hidden functions you can get with the FN key on macOS.
Writing Documentation for your House
Pretty interesting idea…
Automate updating custom Homebrew formulae with GitHub Actions
I have a few projects I use custom Homebrew taps with. I never remember to update the formulae versions when I update the projects. So, I finally decided to automate the process with GitHub Actions.
Reorganizing my ~/Sites directory
I keep all my websites’ source code under ~/Sites. I’ve always just named
them like ~/Sites/josh.fail. A while ago, while looking at how launchd
names its plist files, like com.apple.iTunes, I realized that would be a
great way to organize my ~/Sites directory so that sites under the same
domain show up next to each other with ls or in Finder.