Bryce Wray @BryceWrayTX@mastodon.technology

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Content pays off. Wondered why data from Fathom Analytics showed two posts getting the most hits; found they’re on the front page of Google for, respectively, “eleventy vs” and “ulysses icloud sync”:
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https://brycewray.com/posts/2019/04/why-left-ulysses
🚀 ✅ 📈 ❤️ 📢 💯 #HonestSEO

Based on https://github.com/11ty/eleventy/issues/1305 I today switched out dev servers — from `browser-sync` to `svrx` — and feel it’s a great choice. https://svrx.io

Tried the Vercel CLI yesterday just out of curiosity (trying to figure out something; long story) and inadvertently “broke” the auto-deploy-from-GitHub feature. Only after going back and killing remnants of the CLI — including `vercel.json` — did everything work again. (Whew.)

One wonders whether, about 30 years after the American Revolution, surviving Loyalists would’ve been allowed to erect #statues of Benedict Arnold as a “tribute” to their “heritage” of supporting George III instead of their country. One further wonders why any reasonably patriotic U.S. citizen would be upset, generations later, when the traitor’s #statues were pulled down.

New post >> Stacks and stacks | That was then, this is now | Comparing the site’s “tech stacks,” one year apart

https://brycewray.com/posts/2020/07/stacks-and-stacks/

Goodbye and hello | Moving from Netlify to Vercel

https://brycewray.com/posts/2020/07/goodbye-hello/

#StaticSite #Firebase #Render #webhosting

New post >> O say can you CI/CD? | A way around the Netlify build limit

https://buff.ly/2Vprwui

#CI_CD #staticsitegenerator #GitHubActions #GitLab

‪Users of render.com who’ve previously used Netlify, what led you to switch? Specifically wondering about #StaticSite hosting, but would appreciate hearing about other applications as well. Thanks!‬

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NEW POST >> Fathom Analytics: Count on it | A better way to analyze Web sites

https://brycewray.com/posts/2020/06/fathom-analytics-count-on-it/

#analytics #privacy #data

Gave Cloudinary’s free plan a brief try last weekend, mainly because I’m concerned about exceeding Netlify’s free monthly builds limit as my site adds more hero images. However, some of the URL-based transformations didn’t work as documented — chiefly aspect-ratio-related stuff — and, of course, the meter was running every time I tried something else. Finally decided I’ll wait until I’m closer to Netlify’s free builds limit. That’s some months away ... I **think**.

Reverted my site’s body copy to Public Sans today (the variable version now available from the “v2” Google Fonts interface). Really like this “font” family and the thinking behind it. https://public-sans.digital.gov/

Having replaced my site’s build-slowing PNGs for JPGs and reverted to Public Sans and Roboto Mono Web “fonts” I prefer, will now TRY to leave it alone for a while and, y’know, WRITE stuff. #amwriting #WIP ✍️