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title: "Updates to my coffee, car-buying, and zero-drop shoe posts, plus my Jekyll documentation theme"
date: 2026-11-08
description: "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..."
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# Updates to my coffee, car-buying, and zero-drop shoe posts, plus my Jekyll documentation theme

> I don't often update previous posts, but I recently updated four things I really wanted to revisit. I went back to drinking coffee, returned the Honda Civic from my car-buying post, stopped recommending zero-drop shoes for calf strains, and released a new version of my documentation theme for Jekyll, which now looks more like idratherbewriting.com.

Here are the 4 posts I updated and why:

- **[Too much coffee?](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/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](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/too-much-coffee#update) explains why.
- **[Buying a car in the age of AI](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/buying-a-car-in-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](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/buying-a-car-in-age-of-ai#update-returning-the-civic) covers how and why.
- **[Barefoot shoes, basketball, and how to avoid recurring calf strains](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/barefoot-shoes-basketball-fix-for-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](https://idratherbewriting.com/documentation-theme-jekyll/):** [Release 8.0](https://idratherbewriting.com/documentation-theme-jekyll/mydoc_release_notes_80.html) 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.