Updates to my coffee, car-buying, and zero-drop shoe posts, plus my Jekyll documentation theme
Here are the 4 posts I updated and why:
- Too much coffee?: In April, I wrote about quitting coffee after hitting a point where caffeine no longer seemed to help. About six months later, I went back to drinking coffee, and the update section explains why.
- Buying a car in the age of AI: This September post ended with me buying a 2019 Honda Civic. I ended up returning the Civic and buying a 2026 Subaru Forester Hybrid instead. The update section covers how and why.
- Barefoot shoes, basketball, and how to avoid recurring calf strains: I added a note at the top of this 2021 post saying that I no longer recommend zero-drop shoes and why.
- Documentation theme for Jekyll: Release 8.0 redesigns the theme on Bootstrap 5 so that it looks more like idratherbewriting.com. I know Jekyll is no longer the static site generator of choice, but it continues to work well for me, and its integration with GitHub simplifies continuous publishing for a blog.
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