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WordPress Again
I haven’t been updating this site very often. Upon reflection, I decided that this is in part because the Jekyll workflow that I switched to was… inconvenient. It would be possible to hack around this....
View ArticleMigrating from Jekyll to WordPress
Funnily enough, there aren’t all that many resources for people who’re moving from Jekyll to WordPress. I took some advice from a post by Fabrizio Regini, but had to modify it a bit, so here’s what I...
View ArticleWikimedia
I mentioned that I hadn’t been updating this blog, and that wasn’t just a matter of there being nothing to talk about. Back in July I got laid off by DeviantArt. Since that was their second layoffs...
View ArticleSublime Text packages: working in 2 and 3
I maintain the Git package for Sublime Text. It’s popular, which is kind of fun and also occasionally stressful. I recently did a major refactor of it, and want to share a few tips. I needed to...
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Why didn’t I respond to your pull request?
I have some fairly popular open source packages up on GitHub. Happily, I get people submitting pull requests, adding features or fixing bugs. It’s great when this happens, because people are doing work...
View ArticleWebFaction helpers: HTTPS and www
I like WebFaction, and have been using them for years now, but I’m the first to admit they’re a bit less… friendly… in some regards than many hosts. I referenced a few of these unfriendly matters back...
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World of Warcraft: Classic memories
WoW Classic is launching in two days time, and it’s stirring up some memories. Possibly tinted by a delightful haze of nostalgia. …I modded my UI heavily The vanilla WoW memory that most jumps to my...
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World of Warcraft Classic addon packaging
If you’re writing an addon which needs to work in just the retail version of WoW, or just in Classic, this post doesn’t really apply to you. But if you want to maintain versions of your addon that...
View ArticleWorld of Warcraft addon packaging but with GitHub Actions this time
I wrote about addon-packaging a year ago, mostly in the context of wanting to package addons for Classic. Since then, the environment has shifted a bit due to Overwolf buying Curse, and also GitHub...
View ArticleHosting: Linode
Last year, after almost a decade of using them as my host, WebFaction started shutting down. They’d been sold to GoDaddy back in 2018 and had mysteriously stopped working on any feature-development...
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