Fumbles and stumbles with StatusHat

This is where the magic happens. The random magic. The “who ate my cheese doodles and why is there a mermaid on my couch” type of magic.

Posts:

Theme upgrade (more of a repair, really)

| 5 minutes read
Time to start doing things properly. Or try to, at least. I followed the guide more closely this time, and did things a tiny bit more slowly. Here’s a walkthrough in 10 steps (You gullible sod… ed.):

Branches and breakage

| 2 minutes read
This was supposed to be the post where I explained how I successfully changed the site theme to Minimal Mistakes. Alas, I made two big mistakes. First, I didn’t read the theme documentation properly. Second, I didn’t test properly before I merged in the changes. So a lot of things broke, and this post was then supposed to detail why. Well, that didn’t happen either.

Cross platform blorging

| 1 minute read
So I set up VS Code and Git on the old Windows workstation. It boots faster than I can adjust my chair, so my hope is this will work great as a blorgomat for typing out and publishing in a flash.