I finished moving this blog from WordPress to Hugo. But I read about a number of other static site generators before I chose Hugo. Hugo is very popular and very capable, but it does have its oddities. Eleventy, or 11ty, is another very popular system and I felt as if I needed to understand it better before absolutely deciding on Hugo.

So I’m re-writing my blog with 11ty—no better way to learn about it.

Ruby on Rails is well known for its philosophy of convention over configuration. And there are definitely benefits to that approach. But are there also significant disadvantages?

Ruby on Rails, Laravel, and Django are the heavy-hitters in full-stack web development frameworks written in Ruby, PHP, and Python, respectively. Rails has been around since 2004, Laravel since 2011, and Django since 2005. I recently came across Masonite (released in 2018) and had to look into it.

A simple (I thought) desire to add a Stack Overflow icon, and link to my account there, in this blog’s footer sent me looking for a different, but still uncomplicated theme. Soon, I was off in the weeks. And I said I wouldn’t…