Category: bloviating

  • Success metrics

    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

    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…

  • Miter Saws and Circular Saws

    A friend asked me whether he needed both a miter saw and a circular saw for a project he’s working on. As we were chatting he told me “this should be a blog post” so here we are. Important Note: when we think of tools I think we should focus on access rather than ownership.…