There has been all sorts of trouble with web developers being unable to
cause their web servers to issue the correct Content-type headers.
Most recent fallout was Mark Pilgrim's essay on XML.com.
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I have started converting my weblog to use a new Django-based system. The old system used text files, one per entry, to generate static HTML; the new system uses the same text files as before—warts and all. Read more
I wanted to have a little React project of my own to play with, so I have React-ified the entry navigator links on my blog pages. This is partly to in order to get some practice in with this different way of approaching JavaScript interactivity. Read more
After reading the text version of a talk by Maciej Cegłowski titled The Web Obesity Epidemic I felt pretty smug because I thought I had redesigned my blog on reasonably minimal lines. Then I checked and was chagrined to discover a recent entry page was 1.01 MB compared with Maciej Cegłowski’s entire talk weighing in at slightly less than 1 MB. I decided to try to work out where I went wrong. Read more
I figured that the first step in fiddling with the JavaScript code I use on my navigation widget will be to convert it in to a more fashionable build system, such as Webpack. Can I reduce the bandwidth usage of my pages thereby? Read more
In my quest to reduce the bandwidth used by my blog entries, I have reduced the user-pic from 42 KB to 6 KB using inline SVG. Read more
How tedious are blog posts about the process of hosting a blog! But how pleased is 2018 me that past me documented the process since otherwise I would have no idea where any of it is. Read more
My last Mac OS update replaced Python, which as usual broke the virtualenvs I use and when building a new virtualenv it seemed like as good a time as any to upgrade to Python 3 and Django 2.0. This lead to a lot of ‘adventures’ as I discovered how well Python 3 is or isn’t supported in my setup. Read more
My web site settings file is broken so I might as well fix a few things. Read more
I have switched to Gunicorn since my attempts to make uWSGI multilingual have failed disastrously. Read more
Now I have upgraded to Python-3, porting my site to Django 2.0 was pretty straightforward. Read more
I have removed the ad box powered by Project Wonderful. Read more
I worked out why my ancient photo albums were broken. Read more
Can I use the EFF’s Certbot to set up TLS encryption on my server? Read more
Here is a summary of how I set up a new Python-3-backed server on my hobby server. Read more
I build a web site for Jeremy Day and I have now spent several hours updating it to the latest Django and Python versions. Read more
I am struggling to think of alternatives to using Tumblr for my link blog. Read more
I am scratching me head over transitioning from using the Twitter button on my blog pages and toward some kind of IndieWeb solution with syndication link. Read more
I have updated the style sheets for my Ancient Photo Albums because Jeremy linked to them and I realized they had an old-timey non-responsive stylesheet. Read more
A few years back I created an interactive article navigator as an exercise in learning React. I thought I’d see what it was like doing it over now I’ve been writing UIs in React for a few years. Read more