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…

Programmers talk about clean syntax and say this or that language or framework has such a property. I’ve noted that Ruby and Ruby on Rails have this thing, too. So what is it?

I’m finding that I really like the syntax of Ruby and the philosophy of Rails. Both are straightforward and ‘clean’. But I’ve been tinkering with Laravel, too, because it runs on more shared hosting services since it’s just good ol’ PHP.

I’ve set this blog site up to be dead simple. I don’t want to do anything to create it beyond installing Jekyll and setting it up to publish to GitHub Pages.