Feed Preview (source)
I was recently fixing up the feeds on my website and wanted to make sure a) that they render probably and b) that the filtered ones contain the correct entries, so I built this little tool to preview atom or rss feeds.
#static-websites6 entries
August 14, 2026
August 4, 2026
Find accessible colours for the web (source)
I finally got around to getting my website back up and running. Years ago now I started the process of re-building my website (yet again), this time as a link blog. I finally finished getting the machinery working and old content ported over, then of course had to bikeshed the UI for a few days. Anyway one thing I wanted was different colours for the different types of entries. But eyeballing them was leading to poor choices that were hard to read, so I built this tool to make it easier to find colours that still meet contrast requirements for readability on the web.
December 30, 2024
Yet another website reboot
Every year around this time I get an uncontrollable urge to redo my personal website. It's total madness but I don't know how to stop it. I am very inspired by other bloggers who are able to sustain a coherent presence on the internet for decades, and I want to be one of them. I always think I've narrowed down the problem and have a reasonable solution in mind, but really it's just the same cycle repeating itself. […2 min read]
April 28, 2021
My dream static site generator
I'm on the hunt for a simple tool to build simple websites. In my last post I explained a bit about what I mean by that and why I find the existing options unsatisfactory. It got me thinking about what my requirements are. I think it's good in general to think up front about how software should work. It helps me quickly pass on existing solutions before wasting tons of time learning a new thing only to discover it can't do what I need (because I didn't know what I needed until it was too late). It also helps me make better software. […6 min read]
April 24, 2021
There is so much low hanging fruit in web development
I am perpetually annoyed at how frustrating it is to build simple websites. Fair warning, this post is a bit ranty. I will explore technical solutions to these problems in a follow up post. But this one sets the stage first to explain why I spend so much time working on and thinking about things that appear to be easy, solved problems. […3 min read]
August 3, 2020
Why Are Websites So Complicated Now?
I first got into programming because I wanted to make my own websites. Back then all it took was two files, an index.html and a style sheet. I recently decided to take up blogging again and started looking around for a simple static site generator. There are a couple of reasons why I avoided some other approaches. […4 min read]