Date this way!

Shame on you if you don’t know about xkcd, the best comic on the Interwebs! This is the only way anyone should record dates on their computer. I have years of files that I can quickly flip through to find just about anything.

Mapping Movable Type subdomains with symlinks

In my experience with content management systems, default settings drop “inside pages” into directories to create URLs like www.foo.com/bar. I prefer mapping subdomains to those directories so URLs look like bar.foo.com. After putting this design in practice, I ran into problems. For example, any attempt to use the search box from one of my subdomains …

More responsive MT 5.2.2 worth a look

With its new responsive theme–Rainier–it looks like Movable Type 5.2.2 now delivers what I have been looking for to serve up this humble writing collection. The key word there is “responsive.” Since 2010, when Ethan Marcotte introduced the concept in his seminal article Responsive Web Design, the word has been overused alongside “curated” and “”air …