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Blog of Peter Bhat Harkins. I like to think out loud as I learn or share smallish useful things. Check the dates as you read, because most articles are out of date, both in facts and my current opinions. ⊕ The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on

— Omar Khayyám Rubaiyat

Posts are divided into four broad categories: Biz Code Games Life. They’re also archived by tag and date.

My blog includes talks I’ve given.

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My email address is peter@ this domain.

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2023 site rebuild

I rebuilt this site from Wordpress to Jekyll. Many things are currently broken but, crucially, fewer things are broken than in the Wordpress version. So I’d rather launch a sorta-broken site now (August 2023) and clean up live than delay longer.

To-do list:

• jekyll setup
• import hakyll attempt at theme
• move developer-days to a post
• show tags on post
• /tag to list all tags
• fix doofy date format
• change post urls to /slug, not /category/date/slug.html ugh
• move WP posts into subdir, fix layouts
  • Code and Coffee
  • Consulting
  • Contact
  • Long-Term Travel Gear List
  • Sociable
• build /talks about of summaries
  • /talks/kcdc2016 KCDC 2016: Rails Database Corruption
  • /talks/railsconf2015 RailsConf 2015: What Comes After MVC
  • /talks/railsremote2016 Rails RemoteConf 2016: Your Data is Corrupt
  • /talks/wroclove2016 wroc_love.rb: Lessons of Liskov
• category pages
• block dir browsing (/assets, _posts, more)
• redirect /talks/railsremote2016 to /talk/kcdc2016
• page: /substitutability
• template header for embarrassing outdated posts
• import images
• review and articleize posts
  • 2006
  • 2007
  • 2008
  • 2009
  • 2010
  • 2011
  • 2012
  • 2013
  • 2014
  • 2015
  • 2016
  • 2017
  • 2018
• media reviews
• compile old reviews
• fix formatting
• recommended filter
• s/recommended/starred/
• s/movies/video/
• compile year-end summaries
• books 2019
• books 2020
• books 2021
• books 2022
• books 2023
• tabletop games 2019
• tabletop games 2020
• tabletop games 2021
• tabletop games 2022
• tabletop games 2023
• video games 2019
• video games 2020
• video games 2021
• video games 2022
• video games 2023
• podcasts 2019
• podcasts 2020
• podcasts 2021
• podcasts 2022
• podcasts 2023
• video 2019
• video 2020
• video 2021
• video 2022
• video 2023
• archive posts by year or in one archive.html?
• generate list of all wordpress urls - sitemap?
• new / index page
• add sitemap
• liquid tags for marginnote etc
• redirects for all urls https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-redirect-from
  • pages
  • posts
• cron job to grep prod logs for 404s
• Valent posts
• favicon
• check for any remaining wp-content paths
• get /talk/wroclove2016 video from youtube
• talks: restore videos
• back up wordpress export
• back up wordpress files
• back up wordpress mysql db
• deploy
• css: .decoration class on images
• next/previous links on posts chronologically
• next/previous links on posts by category
• next/previous links on posts by tag
• post info (date, category, tags) not visible on mobile layout
• htaccess to require foo/ and foo/index.html 302 to foo
• htaccess to redirect /year/title to /title
• script to check that prod does those redirs properly
• combine tufte.css and site.css into one file
• talks: set published date for talks: kcdc, wroc
• plugin to show comments
• post template: take comments by email
• validate: permalink for all _pages
• validate: _site/_* does not exist
• validate: /tags exists
• validate: /code category page exists
• code highlighting
• all errors from htmlproofer
• commit `_site` to avoid woe if build breaks
• script to find-and-replace broken external links