Chris Salzman

Category: blogging

  • Success metrics

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    Arguably the single most important part of any project that everyone skips is defining what makes a project successful. The Traps to Avoid Doing so focuses the project and, more importantly, will help you ignore three big traps: Taking on other people’s definitions of success. Never finishing. Grabbing onto tantalizing data that don’t actually support…

  • From Hugo to WordPress

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    There are a million and one blog posts for “move from WordPress to Hugo!” out there. This is the opposite of that. Hugo is good I like Hugo a lot. If you need a static site generator I’d recommend it without reservation! Once I had it going it worked very well. I loved how fast…

  • Newsletter April 9, 2018

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    Here are the Other Local Newsletters You Should be Reading Ed’s Vacuum newsletter for 2018-W14, Issue 5 (new series) George’s Roundup, April 6 The CivCity Initiative Spring Scrimmage for Local Civics! Reader and RSS Anil Dash tweeted a sentiment that resonated a lot with me: Google’s decision to kill Google Reader was a turning point…

  • Jekyll to Hugo Along with an Updated Deployment Script

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    I moved my blog from Jekyll to Hugo because I can’t leave well enough alone. Jekyll is wonderful, it’s also slower than it should be for building a site. Not like “go get some coffee” slow, but building felt sluggish. I also needed to reconfigure my workflow for publishing anyway. My earlier workflow involved running…