Blog

Welcome to my blog. I'm trying to post things whenever I get inspired to write something. Sometimes it's more often, and sometimes not so much. The subject can vary quite a lot, but it tends to be mostly about tech.

I don't have any commenting enabled at the moment, because no one really comments anything except spammers, but if you have any thoughts on anything, feel free to email me at niklas@uplink.fi.

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Blog Posts

Grav CMS

Tech 07 Jul 2018

Since I tend to spend more time fiddling with my blog software than actually writing things, I decided to change the CMS software again. For quite a while I had been using Jekyll to power my blog, and I do technically like lot of things about Jekyll, but it's quite difficult to post in. For "normal users" it's almost impossible to use, but I noticed that not having a web backend was sometimes a problem for me as well. I am going to miss the speed of loading static pages though. :)

New Blog Platform

About the Blog 22 Nov 2015

WordPress Jekyll Markdown Web Static Pages

Last spring I combined my blog and personal site into a new one. I used a WordPress install, like I had on my old blog. Partly because that's what I had used before, and partly because I was doing a lot of WordPress stuff at work. I made my own theme for it using Timber, a Twig plugin for WordPr...