Failing to Fail: The Spiderweb Software Way

In this GDC 2018 talk, Spiderweb Software’s Jeff Vogel presents a retrospective on his company’s history and how they’ve managed to stay in the game-making business since 1994.

A lot of tutorials on setting up Jekyll for GitHub Pages recommend pushing to a orphaned gh-pages branch. That’s OK if you want to create a page for a specific project under <username>.github.io/<project> but not if you want to setup a personal <username>.github.io page.

I was too lazy to constantly create new files and copy paste the same structure, so I wanted to duplicate existing files. Unfortunately, this is not functionality VS Code has, so I had to install Duplicate Action. Anyway, I duplicated a post, and noticed that the order isn’t correct. Fair enough, edit the time by some amount and voila! The blog post disappeared!

I guess it’s only natural to start this blog with issues setting the blog itself up.

New year, new resolutions. Resolutions that, just like every year, will fall off a few months in! But why should that stop me?