I'm proud to announce I've successfully migrated my personal site to Eleventy, a static site generator written in JavaScript. There's lots of static site generators in most programming languages (even Bash). I wrote my own once, with PHP and Makefiles, but it was slow and inefficient. This time I wanted to learn a new thing and add it to my toolbelt.

I was surprised at how fast Eleventy was. It exceeded my expectations. I like that it has several template engine…

Why Plain Text Is Still One of the Best Technologies We Have:

A text file cannot embed a spreadsheet, preserve elaborate page layouts, run a presentation, or provide many of the conveniences we expect from modern applications. What it does instead is store text in one of the simplest and most widely understood forms in computing, and that simplicity is a large part of why it has laste…

Tycho's lid latch misaligned. Fixed it, but accidentally broke other part. Bummer. Superglue to the rescue. Also, I checked why the Right cursor key and PgDn keys weren't working. Depressing and massaging them fixed them, whew! I was already getting frustrated on the idea of not being able to buy a replacement keyboard. The F3 and F4 keys still work intermittently, tho.

I love this idea of Robert Birming:

Maintaining a gallery is a bit of a hassle on most indie platforms. I’ve tried various ways of doing it, but it always ends up the same way: I forget to update it.

Therefore, I decided to create a /photo slash page. Like a /now page, but just for photography. One photo, swapped whenever I have a new pic I feel like sharing.

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There's several YouTube channels of photographers asking beautiful strangers on the streets to take their portraits. Staged or not, I find them entertaining.

I recently saw this one where the photographer asks this woman, "I don't know if you've noticed this beautiful backdrop here?" which, indeed, it is.

Having said that, it's hilarious that the entire…

I don't remember where I got this quote from, but it's great:

“The drawing you make will always be better than the drawing you didn’t make at all.”

https://handwritten.danieljanus.pl/2022-10-01-hyperlinks-in-handwriting.html

I love this idea! Daniel Janus has a blog written by hand using a reMarkable tablet. He also writes each entry's HTML by hand (hah).

Even the comments are hand-written! This is beyond awesome.

My old Canon Rebel T1i camera's batteries started failing months ago, they didn't reliably hold a charge. My concern was that the camera would not shutdown correctly and break. Better safe than sorry, I stopped using it. I dearly missed my DSLR a lot, especially on a family travel to Cuzco. While smartphones can take great photos, they can't compete against a larger sensor and larger interchangeable lenses.

I'm delighted that, with the help of my mother-in-law I got ahold of two n…

Who knows that you blog?

Question for the audience: Do you tell people you blog?

Interesting question. I, for one, don't for no special reason whatsoever.

My brother Juan Pablo has a Supernote Manta and it's pretty cool. I tried my hand doing a drawing. There's a short lag but, to me, it's noticeable. Not a deal-breaker, I think I can get used to it. The friction is good, I didn't pay much attention at the time.

We were talking before about an old wooden chess set we have, my brothe…

El equipo de Django ha anunciado cambios en el ciclo de liberación del framework.

Aunque aún tendremos las versiones —LTS y no LTS— de la serie 6.x, según el cronograma planificado; los cambios en el ciclo de liberación se aplicarán a partir del 2028:

• Se pasa a un ciclo de liberación anual —una nueva versión del framework por año.
• Mejor soporte para Python. Dado el nuevo ciclo de liberación a…