Author: sroot

  • Moving Back to wordpress

    I failed. but I had fun trying and learnt things, so I’m happy. For this blog I tried to use a static site generator, I thought it would make my blog simpler and allow me to post faster. I thought it would make my blog easier to host and easier to secure with no database…

  • Moving from wordpress to a static site generator

    A long time ago I created my own website and created each page by hand in Windows notepad. I probably even used some server side includes and I certainly used Apache as the web server. I don’t have copies of that site. In 2004 I moved to a blogging system called MovableType In 2012 I migrated from…

  • Magic letterhead tray – making preprinted stationary automatically on plain white paper

    A couple of years ago I stopped buying letterheads for my business and instead created a special print queue that merged any document sent to print with a PDF letterhead template. Last month, it stopped working on just my PC. I’m not quite sure if it broke from a Windows update or something else had…