I just listened to Avery Trufelman’s podcast Lace and Labor. What a banger. An absolutely thrilling episode for all sorts of reasons.

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⏱️ 02:17 total (1:40 actual) ⇄28.9km ⌀17.2km/h ↗109m ↘?m

At last, the weather was cool enough to go for a bike ride at a reasonable hour.

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Further to yesterday’s post about improving this site’s performance, one of the lead developers of Grav was able to diagnose the problem. Turns out its an unruly plugin. Disable it, and rebuilding the site takes 2–3 seconds, versus the 15 minutes I was experiencing. Trouble is, that plugin’s aut...

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Piqued by Peter’s recent post on Core Web Vitals I decided to submit my own home page and a post to PageSpeed Insights. The results were not perfect, but perfectly satisfactory; 99, 98, etc. But there is a bigger problem behind the scenes.

Any time I change anything at all on the site -- a new p...

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Another lot of travel in August bleeding into September which is why this post is later than usual. Very pleasant to be cool and rained upon a bit.

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