Next I decided to just kill the DigitalOcean server completely and use s3_website to push content up to an S3 bucket hosted site. Yet another improvement but still not completely there. Finally I think I’m close. Currently I write comment in markdown (so I can focus on content, not format) which is parsed and published by Jekyll. via…
An HTML 5 Christmas
It’s Christmas day and I just happened upon a post by the Google Webmaster team talking about removing the HTML, HEAD, and BODY tags from their code, as they are evidently no longer necessary. I started looking at their code (particularly for their 404 pages), and it was very interesting. It’s a few minutes later now and most…
Implement a Facebook Share Button Using a Single Line of Javascript
If you’ve messed with getting Facebook buttons on your site you know that there are a couple of ways to do it, but most of them involve using one of their various APIs. My issue is that I’ve been working on optimizing my site, so I didn’t want to invoke any external scripts at all. So I did…
DISQUS Comment System not W3C Compliant?
So I’m on another monk-like drill into my website’s underlying structure and performance. I’m currently re-evaluating my code’s compliance with the W3C standard, which is a pretty high bar since I’m using the XHTML strict definition. Anyway, on pages where I load the DISQUS comment system I am unable to validate cleanly due to the following error: Basically,…
A Bookmarklet That Displays HTTP Headers
I was looking for a Google Chrome extension that did something like Firefox’s Live HTTP Headers recently and tripped over this neat bookmarklet. It’s not quite as cool as a full Live HTTP Headers implementation, but it does pop up a small window with the current server’s HTTP headers in it. Just create a new bookmark and replace…