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April 28, 2026 11:42:10 pm

I Switched from WordPress to Hugo

Both Hugo and WordPress are free software created with love and a lot of unpaid labor. My hat is off to both projects and their developers.

About the Software

Hugo

Hugo is a program written in Go that runs on your computer and generates a static website based on files you create. These include markdown files for content, HTML-ish files for themes, and static assets. All you need to put it out into the world is a way to serve web pages.

April 20, 2026 2:58:16 pm

Hello World

A Hello World post doesn’t make a lot of sense considering this blog has some older content, but it’s a new blogging engine, so hello from it, I guess.

June 11, 2021 1:44:09 am

23 Years

I just passed the 23rd anniversary of creating my first website, which I would eventually name Midnight on a Wednesday. For my 16th birthday, my mom let me register my first domain name, kjcoop.com.

I was exposed to computers late relative to other people of my generation. I thought it was amazing that I could read the writings of people all over the world - there were no boundaries on the internet. This was before Wordpress and Facebook and even Friendster. if you wanted a website, you had to learn HTML.

March 9, 2021 1:24:44 am

Comparing Trello, Asana, Zenkit and Todoist

These are the four platforms where I have data. I hope to one day move it to a single platform.

Kanban uses the term card, Todoist says task. I use both.

AsanaTodoistTrelloZenkitBeauty5/10 - has a few backgrounds to choose from. Images attached to cards become small thumbnails.❌9/10 - An ever-growing number of pretty backgrounds thanks to Unsplash. Attached images become medium thumbnails on corresponding cards.5/10 - has a few backgrounds to choose from. Images attached to cards become small thumbnails.TagsColored background and globalColored font and global; paidColored background and siloed per boardColored background and siloed per board; can have multiple categories. Can be used to color the whole card. See below.Descriptions☑️❌☑️☑️AttachmentsCan be attached to cards or commentsCan only be attached to comments; paidCan be attached to cards or commentsCan be attached to cards or commentsRepeating tasks☑️☑️❌ - Power-up. Appears on due day.☑️Reminders☑️☑️❌☑️ - Added as a separate field, but you can add many such fieldsLinks between cards/boardsPaste the URL yourself.Paste the URL yourself.☑️ - Add it as an attachment. No URL pasting requiredPaste the URL yourself.

February 7, 2021 8:45:04 pm

Zenkit API to Todoist CSV

I’m of two minds about posting this. The code is ugly. I’m posting it anyway because there aren’t a lot of resource for this this and was kind of a bear. I hope to save somebody else some trouble.

As is well-documented, I’m a fan of productivity tools. Todoist added boards to support a kanban format and let me tell you, I am here for it.

My productivity software journey of the past couple years goes like this: Trello and Todoist -> Asana -> Trello alone -> Zenkit -> Todoist alone. I have data living in all four places. I’m trying to move as much as I can to Todoist (it has global tags which Trello lacks, but its missing some other features I’m pretty fond of). Definitely Todoist will last forever and I won’t come running back to Trello.

January 3, 2021 8:53:02 am

Check a Domain Name for SSL Problems

Today I’m highlighting a script I wrote that will check sites for SSL problems. You can hand it a file with hard-coded domains, or you can pass domains in as arguments. I wrote a complementary script that will find all the vhosts on the current server.

It’s essentially a curl command with some formatting. First, it checks the domain name itself. If that passes, it checks for a random subdomain.

I had it include the curl time in the output because some domains were taking longer than others and I was interested to see where the slowdown was. Not that it does any troubleshooting, I just thought it was interesting to know.

January 3, 2021 8:43:04 am

Find All Virtual Hosts a Web Server is Serving

I registered a couple domain names recently and it was too hard to manually keep track of where everything was in the process of getting set up, so I wrote a few scripts to help with the job. They’re all on Github, which you already know, if you’re one of my zero followers. The one I’m highlighting here finds all the virtual hosts on a given system.

First off, I want to know what all I’ve got set up to be served. It trolls /etc/apache’s vhosts or sites-enabled directory, but it would work just as well with nginx. It’s basically one line. I hit Google hard for this one:

October 6, 2020 7:06:24 am

Ill-Fated Attempt at Importing Quick Notes Data to Joplin

As you may have learned from the title, my attempt at importing data from Quick Notes to Joplin failed. I leave my notes here in case they save trouble for the next person.

Background

I was a Quick Notes user (which, to be clear, is mighty fine software, just not quite what I was looking for) for like two days. During that time I entered as many as ten notes. Obviously I’m not going to manually move such an enormous quantity of data, so I started for looking for ways to automate it.

September 29, 2020 6:00:15 am

The Madness of 2020

Back in March, when San Diego County School District announced they were closing schools for three weeks, everyone I knew went, “Three weeks! What sort of madness is this?”

Prudent madness, as it turns out. That’s the tagline for this year: 2020, the year of prudent madness.

By the way, as of this writing, prudentmadness.com is available.

July 21, 2020 4:53:35 am

Productivity Software Wishlist

I have a fever for productivity software. I haven’t found anything perfect (the nerve of other people not to think of exactly what I want!). This is wishlist of things ideal software would have. I wrote this both as a checklist for myself and as a guide of what to mention when I review other productivity software.

So, my nearly-true love is ❤️ Trello ❤️. Next best is Asana. This review is based on the things I found pleasing and displeasing about each.