Rebooting: Behind the Blog

Posted on 06 Feb 2012

A quick word on the technical side for the interested: the site is still built on Jekyll as it continues to serve me well – we even use it at Agincourt to build static sites because makes managing layouts much easier.

I’ve also switched to Github Pages for hosting; compiling the site and then uploading up to S3 via Transmit was a pain and put me off actually posting anything. Now I just commit and push to Github where the changes are automatically published for me.

Rebooting & Writing

Posted on 04 Feb 2012

Rebooting this site has been on my agenda for some time and now that I’ve finally settled on a design, its time to actually start writing. As a programmer, I need to think and write concisely and I hope that writing this blog will help me to better formulate my thoughts.

Unsurprisingly, the best way to improve writing is to just write. I use Byword which removes any distractions by running in full screen screen mode; hiding the menu bar, dock, windows, everything but the text. Best of all, it has built-in support for Markdown which is how I mark up the posts.

The hard part is motivating myself to write something, to do something that is both useful and meaningful to me. To be restless and strive for nothing less than perfection against all odds. For now, though, I’ll close with a quote from from Steve:

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.