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The hard part of keeping a blog was never the writing. It was remembering what the week held and seeing which of it was worth telling.

I archived this blog and meant it. What reopened it wasn't a better tool—it was agentic coding leaving me more to share than I could keep to myself.

How a TrueNAS, a Home Assistant box, and a Chromebook back themselves up—delegated to Cloud Sync, Nabu Casa, and a Google account.

Eight years on from the 2018 "How I Read" post: same practice, different tools, and still no way to prove which one's doing the work.

AstroPaper v5: keep the clean look, updates under the hood.

Learn how to add LaTeX equations in Astro blog posts using Markdown, KaTeX, and remark/rehype plugins.

Comment function on a static blog hosted on GitHub Pages with Giscus.

AstroPaper v4: ensuring a smoother and more feature-rich blogging experience.

How to use Git Hooks to set your Created and Modified Dates on AstroPaper

AstroPaper Version 3: Elevating Your Web Experience with Astro v3 and Seamless View Transitions

How to update project dependencies and AstroPaper template.

AstroPaper with the enhancements of Astro v2. Type-safe markdown contents, bug fixes and better dev experience etc.

New feature in AstroPaper v1.4.0, introducing dynamic OG image generation for blog posts.

Some of the well-crafted, predefined color schemes for AstroPaper blog theme.

How you can enable/disable light & dark mode; and customize color schemes of AstroPaper theme.

Some rules & recommendations for creating or adding new posts using AstroPaperr theme.

How you can make AstroPaper theme absolutely yours.

EXAMPLE POST: About Tailwind Typography Plugin and how you can use it effectively.

EXAMPLE POST: Developing a terminal-like website using ReactJS, TypeScript and Styled-Components. Includes features like autocomplete, multiple themes, command hints etc.

EXAMPLE POST: My experience about developing my first portfolio website and a blog using NextJS and a headless CMS.

Codifying how I read several books concurrently—short bursts per book with practised recall between sessions, plus a 'readability' formula for ordering the stack.

A cron-driven rdiff-backup recipe that pushes incremental backups over SSH from a NAT'd client to a remote server, wrapping the SSH call through --remote-schema.