Jon Allured

Computer Programmer, Whiskey Drinker, Comic Book Reader

Week in Review: Week 45, 2025

published 11/09/25

This week we changed our clocks and gained an hour. Somehow I was still pretty messed up from it. Waking up at 5:30 in the morning some days - brutal. Only hit the pool for a swim one day but better than nothing. Still I was fairly productive despite not quite landing what I was hoping to finish up this week.

Highlights

New season of Pudding Time starting publishing this week so that's fun! Gotta get some guests booked.

I spent some time tinkering with Jekyll Tags and learning how they work. My strategy was to separate these "review" types of posts from my normal ones and then apply a "favorite" label to my best ones.

This made me want to have another look at the sidebar. I added a Review Posts item and then had the idea to collect my offsite writing. I took a trip down memory lane and dug up all the blog posts I had written while at Hashrocket and Artsy. Then I copy/pasted that content into new posts and back dated them. I added a Crossposts section for them.

Next Week

I'm still working on using the Apache access log data that I've tinkered with to create analytics reports on my Rails app but I didn't quite land that yet. I got super far but got distracted by something else. Need to put that distraction aside and ship.

If I have time I can return to that distraction which is doing a deeper dive on image optimizations for this site. I had a few ideas and again got pretty far but was not able to quite get something done. Here's a sneak peek via my Image Tester page. What am I up to???