Andre Franca
The recent Cloudflare outage sparked an interesting talk in the small web community. I wrote about the fragile architecture we’ve built, where a single configuration file brought down half the internet. Kev Quirk responded with a compelling argument: why rely on big tech at all? Just spin up a...
Andre Franca
This is a quick update on Sveltia CMS. I recently shared my thoughts on it, and a few days later, the dev team released version 0.70.0, which now officially supports mobile devices! 📱 This update has made my life easier. I can review and update content right from my phone, whether I’m commuting,...
Andre Franca
Using Sveltia-CMS on my blog has been an interesting experience. Long ago, when I first started exploring content management systems, I switched to Ghost [and posted about it]({{ < ref “/posts/2022/ghost-as-my-blogging-platform.md” ?}}). For multiple reasons, which I had explained in another...
Andre Franca
I’ve just published a new open-source software named Rustpix. As the name suggests, it’s a simple program written entirely in Rust. Essentially, Rustpix is a lightweight tool that automatically optimizes images for web use. How it works: Takes one or more images in common formats (JPEG, PNG, GIF,...
Andre Franca
After running into some dependency issues and long build and deployment times on Cloudflare, I decided it was finally time to move away from Jekyll and switch to a different Static Site Generator. I’ve tried other ways of publishing on my blog before, like Ghost and 11ty, but this time I went with...
Andre Franca
I’ve been running this blog since April, and for the first time I can say I’m really happy with it in terms of functionality and appearance. Back in September, I wrote “Ghost as my blogging platform” explaining the reasons why I was giving a shot at a CMS and leaving Jekyll as my SSG. Two of the...
Andre Franca
I’ve been really busy these days and haven’t made any posts. Despite having plenty of drafts for the blog, I couldn’t find time to sit down and write. Fortunately, unlike any algorithm-based platform, this blog allows me to write at my own pace and as I wish. After all, there’s no financial...
Andre Franca
Since I created this website I missed the ability to search my posts on-site. With the help of Simple Jekyll Search, this guide written by Kev, and some minor tweaks, I’ve managed to add this feature. I’m still getting used to have a personal blog, and this one doesn’t have a lot of content as of...