A Place For My Head

Hello, World!

2020-04-29T10:30:00Z

Welcome to A Place For My Head.

Published in Journal, Technology.

How to Include PrismJS CSS Only When Required In Eleventy

2020-04-29T14:46:00Z

How I set up Eleventy to avoid including unnecessary CSS.

Published in Technology.

Updating My Emacs Rust Configuration

2020-04-30T17:17:00Z

Bringing modern packages to my Rust experience in Emacs.

Published in Technology.

Plucking Some Low-Hanging Fruit of Spring Boot Web Performance

2020-05-07T11:42:24Z

Even a touch of easy optimization can make your website infinitely better.

Published in Technology, Work.

Building Statically Linked Rust Binaries

2020-08-29T11:14:07Z

How I set up a statically-linked Docker image for a non-trivial Rust project.

Published in Technology, Work.

Speedily Parsing JSON in Rust with Serde

2020-09-11T12:11:15Z

My journey to lightning quick JSON parsing in Rust.

Published in Technology.

Using rust-analyzer in Emacs

2020-10-05T09:23:57Z

Building on my previous updates to make Emacs a proper Rust IDE.

Published in Technology.

Safely Extracting Archives

2020-10-17T11:28:31Z

The hoops I jumped through to avoid any booby traps in a RAR file.

Published in Technology.

I Have A Face Now

2021-04-19T00:55:58Z

A naked blog no longer.

Published in Technology.

Your JavaScript-Only Website Sucks

2021-04-19T15:55:37Z

Relying on JavaScript to show static text isn’t just unnecessary, it’s hostile towards your users.

Published in Technology.

Just Do The Work

2021-04-19T21:34:12Z

The only way to get things done is to do the work.

Published in Journal, Technology, Work.

Using pnpm with Netlify

2021-04-19T23:31:57Z

How to disable npm and cache dependencies.

Published in Technology.

Multiple Simultaneous Immutable Responsive Images

2021-04-21T10:29:09Z

How I integrated responsive images into A Place For My Head.

Published in Technology.

Archives & Permalinks

2021-04-21T20:22:49Z

How I got the archive page permalinks right.

Published in Technology.

Conversations with Tech Support

2021-04-22T13:53:26Z

An actual conversation with Domain.com’s tech support.

Published in Technology.

A More Considered & Considerate Face

2021-04-24T21:57:10Z

The site gets a quiet facelift.

Published in Technology.

React is JavaScript

2021-04-25T10:36:08Z

These are not two separate things.

Published in Technology.

Comments vs. Responsive Images: A Negotiation

2021-04-25T20:20:08Z

Considering my options and their consequences.

Published in Technology.

GitLab Pipelines & Netlify Deploy Previews

2021-04-26T20:30:07Z

How I set up GitLab CI/CD pipelines that wait for Netlify Deploy Previews.

Published in Technology.

Better Icons & URIs

2021-04-27T21:32:10Z

There are now useful icons and simpler URIs (but still no dark mode or comments).

Published in Technology.

The Road to Webmentions

2021-05-01T20:34:46Z

The many, many steps and stumbles.

Published in Technology.

A Better Reading Experience

2021-05-05T20:25:07Z

How I improve the reading experience and why it took so long.

Published in Technology.

Rust Macros Rule: DRY warp Routes

2021-05-11T22:12:47Z

I simplified a bunch of warp routes with macros and attention to detail.

Published in Technology, Work.

Approximate Typography

2021-05-12T22:49:45Z

Rethinking typography and image presentation.

Published in Technology.

Signing Git Commits

2021-05-17T18:07:57Z

What I had to do to verify my identity.

Published in Technology.

webmentiond-helm

2021-05-17T19:30:44Z

I published my Helm chart for webmentiond.

Published in Technology.

Starting with the Fundamentals of Observability

2021-05-22T23:08:08Z

After years of thinking about it, I finally got my feet wet with observability.

Published in Technology, Work.

A Remarkable Discovery

2021-05-23T22:02:50Z

I switched from markdown-it to remark and I’m much happier for it.

Published in Technology.

Why Would My Load Generator Lie to Me?

2021-05-31T07:38:19Z

Jaeger, Loki, lies, and labels.

Published in Technology, Work.

A Tale of Reinstalling Windows

2021-06-17T12:45:49Z

All the little factors that make it a frustrating experience.

Published in Technology.

The Old Ways Are The Best Ways

2021-06-25T13:02:42Z

How I stopped resisting the truth.

Published in Technology.

How I Create an Article Series in Eleventy

2021-07-14T13:57:43Z

Front matter, templates, collections, and JavaScript.

Published in Technology.

When to Use Pagination in Eleventy

2021-07-31T12:00:12Z

Contrasting pagination and looping, with examples and a reference image.

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Automatically Generated Social Media Images with HTML, CSS, Eleventy & Puppeteer

2021-08-16T18:22:53Z

Prettier previews, built with many moving parts.

Published in Technology.

Four Months of Having A Place For My Head

2021-08-24T20:25:13Z

Happiness, gratitude, and a lot of self-satisfaction.

Published in Journal, Technology.

Removing the Automatically-Generated Social Media Images

2021-09-15T17:31:47Z

Why my link previews are more ordinary now.

Published in Technology.

helm-kubeconform-action: Validate Helm Charts with Kubeconform on GitHub

2021-09-27T11:43:04Z

I just released shivjm/helm-kubeconform-action, a GitHub Action that runs Kubeconform on all Helm charts in a given directory, with support for multiple values files.

Published in Technology.

A Simple Helm Charts Repository on GitHub

2021-09-30T12:14:00Z

Published in Technology.

A Viral World No More

2021-10-08T00:06:07Z

We shut down the A Viral World project.

Published in Technology, Work.

Switching to straight.el

2021-10-16T12:00:28Z

Improving my Emacs experience with a reproducible configuration.

Published in Technology.

Finding Uncommitted Changes with PowerShell and fd

2021-10-16T16:51:55Z

And cmd too.

Published in Technology.

The End of the Road for Webmentions

2021-10-29T06:58:46Z

Why I’m no longer accepting them.

Published in Technology.

How I Built shivjm.name

2021-11-05T17:17:56Z

A deceptively simple page.

Published in Technology.

Ex-cite-ing Works of Art

2021-11-05T18:01:01Z

I added citations, is what I’m saying.

Published in Technology.

Adventures in Preformatted Text

2021-11-09T12:38:13Z

I made output better and almost added line numbers to code blocks.

Published in Technology.

Miscellany

2021-11-13T11:14:28Z

An assortment of small changes.

Published in Technology.

Transferring a Google Workspace Subscription From a Reseller

2021-11-27T15:16:56Z

Moving your Google Workspace subscription away from a reseller is actually uncomplicated.

Published in Technology.

Deploying Kyverno: The DigitalOcean Kubernetes Challenge

2021-12-05T19:10:23Z

Deploying Kyverno with helmfile and managing everything with just.

Published in Technology.

The Right Way to Use a Logitech Webcam

2021-12-28T13:19:16Z

I finally figured out how to crop the image on my C920s.

Published in Technology.

Aspell & Flyspell on Windows via MSYS2

2022-01-14T13:28:21Z

Adventures in putting things together and hoping they work.

Published in Technology.

Continuously Varying Font Sizes

2022-01-19T19:10:43Z

A different, hopefully better approach to responsive typography.

Published in Technology.

Miscellany, Vol. 2

2022-01-20T07:14:03Z

Mostly typography.

Published in Technology.

An Ad Hoc, Informally-Specified, Bug-Ridden Implementation of GitOps

2022-01-31T20:06:28Z

Hacking together fake GitOps with shell, CI, and cURL.

Published in Technology, Work.

tree-sitter-hl-mode, lsp-mode’s Semantic Highlighting, and rust-analyzer

2022-05-03T10:28:32Z

How to avoid warnings.

Published in Technology.

Android 12 Ruined My Phone

2022-05-03T14:32:31Z

Upgrading made notifications unreliable on my OnePlus 9 Pro, among other things.

Published in Technology.

Minor Emacs 28.1 Hiccups

2022-05-04T16:13:11Z

consult.el, tree-sitter, and Forge.

Published in Technology.

Fixing Disproportionately Slow grepping in Emacs

2022-05-09T07:31:27Z

Turn off scrolling and add an ignore file if you can.

Published in Technology.

Introducing: Games!

2022-05-11T10:30:33Z

Prepare to hear about what I play too.

Published in Technology.

Failing to Build Statically-Linked Rust Binaries

2022-07-24T04:54:01Z

I accepted defeat and built a dynamically-linked binary.

Published in Technology, Work.

Rewriting the Git Author

2022-07-24T07:57:51Z

Rebasing and preserving the author date.

Published in Technology.

Rewrote It In Rust: A Tiny Go Scraper

2022-07-24T10:56:12Z

A code-free recounting of a tiny success.

Published in Technology.

Remove cloud-init with User Data

2022-08-22T15:10:09Z

Using systemd as (un)intended.

Published in Technology.

Extending the Primary Partition in Linux Without Rebooting

2022-08-24T17:32:48Z

sfdisk to the rescue.

Published in Technology.

Perfect Docker Images for Rust with Nix

2022-08-24T17:46:43Z

How to use Nix to build an image with exactly what is required and no more.

Published in Technology.

Building QEMU with WHPX for Windows using MSYS and MinGW

2022-08-25T04:03:36Z

How I got it to work.

Published in Technology.

A More Complicated Docker Image for Rust with Nix

2022-08-30T11:13:44Z

This one didn’t work as well.

Published in Technology.

Relabeling Docker Images in GitHub Actions

2022-09-03T10:17:45Z

Probably also applicable to other CI systems.

Published in Technology.

AMD X670 Chipset and Ryzen 9 Early Adopter Woes

2023-01-01T09:45:29Z

Upgrading to the latest and greatest hardware isn’t without its pitfalls.

Published in Technology.

Switching to Firefox from Firefox (and Chrome)

2023-01-01T10:01:45Z

Browsers: my past and present.

Published in Technology.

Compiling emacsql-sqlite on Windows with Zig

2023-01-01T13:32:24Z

zig cc works as advertised even when other tools don’t!

Published in Technology.

Miscellany, Vol. 3

2023-01-14T22:01:15Z

More small changes than you can shake a stick at.

Published in Technology.

You Want it Darker?

2023-01-18T10:52:18Z

The long-delayed dark mode arriveth.

Published in Technology.

Vertical Spacing in CSS Doesn’t Require :has

2023-01-20T10:16:01Z

`margin-top` and the sibling selector are perfectly adequate.

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Computer Audio is Frustrating

2023-01-20T22:58:28Z

It takes way too much effort to get good audio.

Published in Technology.

Replacing Ruby with CSS Grid on shivjm.name

2023-01-21T11:53:33Z

Getting around a Firefox quirk.

Published in Technology.

Balancing Usability and Economy in Article Headers

2023-01-23T10:42:05Z

I added more context to the headers.

Published in Technology.