The personal website and blog of Michael Rose.
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Tutorial for building cheap alternatives to Turntable Revival's wooden back spacers.
Hugo has ruined me. Other static site generators that rely on community plugins and copypasta to fill out their gaps don’t cut it anymore…
Today I learned how to automatically add last modified dates to Markdown files used by static site generators like Jekyll and Gatsby.
How Jekyll uses URLs and how to link posts, pages, assets, and other resources together.
Learn what Jekyll's site url and baseurl variables are and how to properly set them with relative_url and absolute_url filters to avoid broken links and 404 errors.
This is the post where I talk about neglecting the site and pledge to blog more... wait, wasn't I suppose to do this on January 1st?
Creative and site development for 2 Little Rosebuds — a blog all about subscription boxes.
First time doing a year in review post. The statistics contained are just for fun as there's nothing to compare them against yet.
Discover how I optimized my Jekyll site’s build time on Netlify with practical tips to streamline static site performance and speed up deployments.
Using CSS Grid Layout Module to redesign a Jekyll site and further improve performance and accessibility.
Portrait of Marie M. digitally painted with Procreate on an iPad.
Portrait of Ale B. digitally painted with Procreate on an iPad.
Portrait of Tatha S. digitally painted with Procreate on an iPad.
Portrait of Maya Z. digitally painted with Procreate on an iPad.
Portrait of Foggy 365 digitally painted with Procreate on an iPad.
Portrait of Marion K. digitally painted with Procreate on an iPad.
Portrait of Lunar Ashes digitally painted with Procreate on an iPad.
Lessons learned from building, optimizing, and deploying a huge static site with everyone's favorite SSG — Jekyll.
Interesting styling possibilities with Kramdown syntax highlighted code blocks in Jekyll.
Site design and creative for Relic Scout — an app to make collecting simpler, while saving you money.
Site design and creative for Eko Wave — a team specializing in niche applications.
Your new Jekyll default theme.
Learn how to use static files with Jekyll to create a gallery of images automatically without a plugin.