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New Blog, New Problems

So I've got a new blog... 💀 I know what you’re thinking… 💭 What’s with the creepy banner image? 👻Well, here’s the thing. At the beginning of this year, I dec

New Blog, New Problems

So I've got a new blog... 💀

I know what you’re thinking… 💭

What’s with the creepy banner image? 👻Well, here’s the thing. At the beginning of this year, I decided to say goodbye to Wordpress and migrate my blog to something faster and with less restraints (cough static site generators cough) 🔍 zoom Something like Jekyll.

OR SO I THOUGHT.

You see, here’s the thing.

Jekyll is actually REALLY, REALLY slow. 🐢

Like so slow it makes me cringe inside. Here’s an example of what the hell I’m taking about. 🔍 zoom It took 87 seconds to serve my shitty website up?? REALLY? 😔Like that’s really intense. I have less than 110 blog posts!!So yeah, that’s where my mind state is these days. 😪I’m trying my hardest outside of work to get this website sanitized before I migrate (AGAIN) to a faster static site generator like Hexo which uses Go and was able to serve all my posts in like 8 ms.

Lesson of the Day: Maintaining a website is tedious!

Update - September 10th, 2017

I’m at that point during this process of sanitizing all these damn posts that I’m feeling like…


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