Blog 2/3

Converting the blog to Astro was a more significant win than initially expected. A bit more time with the documentation of Astro, Obsidian, and Markdoc, and things went 100% green. On all counts.

I've struggled to keep my blog up-to-date in the past few years. The reasons for that are many. They say it's not a good idea to convert a hobby into a job because you'll end up not liking your hobby. While that is partially true, my main reasons were technological in nature. Round hole, square peg type of thing. By switching to Astro with Markdoc, I hope to solve my problems.

Sometimes local servers get naughty and fail to exit with a signal. They end up occupying a port, and that isn't very pleasant. Here's how to kill them using lsof.

Developing a PoC of the garden planner was fun, but then I got a full-time job as a technical writer, got busy re-doing the garden, and much more.

I have liked Clojure since the first day I met it. This week, for the first time, I went seriously far from evaluating a few expressions in the REPL.