… has too many hobbies.

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Meta

Blog posts about this very website.

7 posts
Feb 2025 – Jul 2025

A new feature, completed —

Microposts can also appear typewritten, for a semi-hand-made feeling.

I imagine these will also be used in asides in certain blog posts.

Back now to the regular programming.

A new feature, continued —

These microposts can also appear to be written in marker, for a bolder but still-handwritten personality.

A new feature appears —

I'm not sure yet exactly how this'll be used, but I've added the ability to use a few different fonts for these microposts.

My hope is that this makes these appear a little more unusual, gives them some personality, and encourages me to use them more.

Some TODOs for the new site

As I prepare to make this new version of dzombak.com live, I wanted to make a note of some things that are left for me to do.

A Selection of Complex CSS Selectors

While working on this site redesign I've had the opportunity to learn a bit about modern CSS. (The last time I redesigned the site was, I think, in 2011.) (Holy cow, 14 years ago? Crazy.) Yes, flexbox and grid are amazing and finally make CSS usable for decent, …

Automating Ghost Routes & Redirects Deployment

Ghost clearly documents how to automate theme deployment with GitHub Actions, but deploying routes & redirects automatically is not as straightforward. This lack of straightforwardness is quite unfortunate in my view, particularly because custom routes are coupled to your theme; and redirects are somewhat coupled to routes since they both …

A migration to Ghost from Jekyll

I just want somewhere I can quickly & easily share things. So, I'm testing out what a new iteration of dzombak.com may look like, running a self-hosted instance of the Ghost CMS.