Garth's Subsequent Blog

I rebooted this blog again in 2019. I might continue it. I might abandon it again. What's it about? Check the tags, I guess…

Recent Posts

• A Backyard Radio Telescope
  #spaceausscope  #sdr 
  I'm building a radio telescope in my back yard, along with a few dozen teams across the country. With an upside down pyramid of aluminium cladding taped to a sawn-off olive oil tin wired to a USB TV tuner, we'll be able to figure out the rough shape of the galaxy. [… ~3min]
• Stuff your events!
  #observability  #honeycomb 
  Ignore everything you've ever been told about measurements and metadata being separate. You get the best benefit out of a system like Honeycomb by shoving all the measurements and all the metadata into the same event. [… ~2min]
• Purging your Tailwind
  #tailwindcss  #purgecss 
  If you set up PurgeCSS with Tailwind CSS as documented, you'll purge the resets for elements you then style later. If you purge only when NODE_ENV=production, your prod builds will look different from your dev builds. [… ~1min]
• Oh No, Not Again
  #gohugo  #tailwindcss 
  I'm rebooting my blog again. It's been on and off since, well, the dawn of blogging. Lucky timing. Long story. This time, I'm trying a different stack based on the Hugo static site generator, Tailwind CSS, and stripped back styles. [… ~1min]