ldstephens

Re: Kev Quirk Doing a Jack Baty...?

Kev

The complexity bothers me. It’s a lot of moving parts that might not work when Kirby version 5 gets released. Then again, it might work fine, and I’ll have no need to worry. But what about Kirby 6, or 7, or 8? What if Manton decides to fold Micro.blog (he won't)? What if Justin decides to double the price of Buttondown (unlikely)?

What if? What if? WHAT IF?? It's all very irrational.

Ok, so what's Jack Baty got to do with this?

Great question, dear reader! You see, my internet pal Jack Baty tends to change things up with his blog, notes, etc., on the regular. I really enjoy reading about his antics, as I get to live vicariously through him.

But recently I’ve been channelling my inner Jack and thinking about reducing the complexity of this site—de-coupling some of the features I’ve built here.

I get it! I'm not a developer either, but this site runs on the static site generator 11ty. It's simple, but I still worry about breaking something I can't fix. Then what?

Funny timing, after reading Kev's post yesterday, I published a couple of posts, and Netlify failed to build the site. What the fuck?

Honestly, that could've been the end of this blog. But I dug into Netlify, found the error logs, and hit a wall of gibberish. As a last resort, I fed it all to ChatGPT, and it actually explained what was wrong and how to fix it in plain English. I know some folks have their ass in a twist about AI, but it saved this blog.

Like Kev, I love tinkering with my site. I'm toying with the idea of moving my notes to notes.ldstephens.net and linking out from the main blog. One advantage to doing that is that notes will have their own RSS feed too.

Always something to tweak, break, and (hopefully) fix.