Apple Mail vs emClient Let’s face it, I live in the boonies. It hurts. People in 3rd world countries have better Internet connections than I do, But I still geta LOT of mail. I’m subscribed to hundreds of mailing lists across multiple standards bodies like the IETF. And they get lots of messages. I have about 1.5Mbps downstream bandwidth. So I’ve learned some tricks, For example. I have my email server filter mailin-list messages (using procmail or GMail filters or the like) into a folder tree.

Todays Lesson in Humility: WPEngine Intro to WPEngine WPEngine is a a commercial WordPress hosting service that supposedly simplifies many of the usual administrative tasks, such as backup and recovery, staging, and security management for its users. Like most WordPress hosting services, WPEngine lets one use a “custom domain” for a web page. So, for example, strategar.com – which in the way WPEngine works, is really just a CNAME record pointing at https://strategarlive.

So, it’s been a while. Today I read about the Ananke theme and added a menu. I’m not really sure I like this process, but I know I hate Wordpress…

Learning to Work with Hugo: I’m learning to work with the Hugo static page generation system. That’s Hugo. Hugo takes a tree full of assorted markdown, html, and resource files and compiles it into html, which can then be deployed via something like rsync to a web site. This post is in Markdown. Markdown is a very basic text markup language that is suitable for many documentation activities, and is quite expressive.