Repos / hi.imnhan.com / aeb1fc11b8
commit aeb1fc11b87aa02b8bdf3485c4ffef3c13e66365
Author: nhanb <nhan@nerdyweekly.com>
Date: Sat Oct 28 13:18:30 2017 +0700
typo & some typographic updates
diff --git a/content/pages/about.md b/content/pages/about.md
index 503c2bd..ab3ec84 100644
--- a/content/pages/about.md
+++ b/content/pages/about.md
@@ -5,11 +5,11 @@ ## About me
-My name is **Bùi Thành Nhân**. I'm a Vietnamese web developer with a keen interest in DevOps.
+My name is **Bùi Thành Nhân**. I'm a Vietnamese software developer with a keen interest in DevOps.
-When I'm not working, I tend to lurk around GitHub, go swimming, or try to [get decent at DDR][5].
-I also recently got into [fighting games][7]. Give me a shout if you're in Hồ Chí Minh City and
-would like some Street Fighter or Guilty Gear action! :)
+When I'm not working, I tend to lurk around GitHub, go swimming, or try to [literally gamify][5] my
+excercise plan (with questionable results). I also recently got into [fighting games][7]. Give me
+a shout if you're in Hồ Chí Minh City and would like some Street Fighter or Guilty Gear action!
## About this blog
@@ -17,16 +17,17 @@ ## About this blog
months or so. This blog is where I write down interesting things I discover. On occasional bad days
I might throw all my ramblings here too, but hopefully those will be rare.
-This blog uses [Pelican][1] - a static site generator written in Python. The static files are
-hosted on Github Pages. All the markdown files can also be found on my [github repo][3]. The
-Pelican theme I wrote for this blog can be found [here][2].
+This blog is generated using [Pelican][1] and hosted on Github Pages. All the markdown files can
+also be found on my [github repo][3]. The Pelican theme I wrote for this blog can be found
+[here][2].
-I always appreciate feedback or further discussion on my posts, so feel free to point out if you
+I always appreciate feedback and further discussion on my posts, so feel free to point out if you
think I said something stupid. :)
### What's with the domain name?
-I watched [Triumph of the Nerds][8] at a very impressionable age.
+I watched [Triumph of the Nerds][8] at a very impressionable age and _thought_ the word was cool.
+Now... you know what they say about unfortunate v1 naming decisions--they stick.
## Want to hire me?
diff --git a/content/posts/have-you-built-anything-cool-.md b/content/posts/have-you-built-anything-cool-.md
index d5b0aa9..00154c7 100644
--- a/content/posts/have-you-built-anything-cool-.md
+++ b/content/posts/have-you-built-anything-cool-.md
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
Category: misc
Thumb: images/sealord.png
-So recently I went to a *networking event* - something I have never liked or been good at. I'm
+So recently I went to a *networking event*--something I have never liked or been good at. I'm
not sure if I'm one of those introverts or if I'm just socially awkward, but the very idea of
going around trying to converse with total strangers just to exchange business cards is not at all
appealing to me. Anyway, that's another story. Right now I want to write about something a guy
@@ -14,15 +14,15 @@
> \- [pause] Well, more or less...
> \- What do you mean by "more or less"? [...] Have you built anything at all?
-Then I went on trying to explain what my recent side project -
-[pytaku](https://pytaku-legacy.appspot.com) - does and why it is awesome for me. He seemed to be
+Then I went on trying to explain what my recent side project--
+[pytaku](https://pytaku-legacy.appspot.com)--does and why it is awesome for me. He seemed to be
disinterested halfway through so I decided to shut up anyway.
Sure, I have done stuff now and then, be it assignment work or something I decided to create
for my own amusement. It is just funny how I have already stepped into to my final year without
taking a proper look back at what I have done in these past 2 years, so I'm going to do just that.
-If you - Nicholas - are reading this and don't want all the nerdy stuff, here are my condensed
+If you--Nicholas--are reading this and don't want all the nerdy stuff, here are my condensed
answers:
### Have you built anything?
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ ## Nerd alert!
The rest of this post is aimed at the <del>nerdier</del> more tech-savvy audience. You have been
warned ;)
-## First year - Welcome to the web, and the GUI programming disillusionment
+## First year--Welcome to the web, and the GUI programming disillusionment
I had touched *web stuff* before in high school: a vBulletin forum that I created (unofficially)
for students in my middle school. However, I only properly learned PHP and JS when I started the
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ ### AJMG, then Pytaku, then... who knows?
Loads of exciting things were learned along the way: how URL handling works in webapp2 and in other
web frameworks in general, proper templating (can't believe I ever wrote `<title><?php echo $title;
?></title>`... not cool!), OAuth2 (more than a few "Aha!" moments working with this little guy...),
-Google's Datastore and NoSQL in general, and of course, Twitter Bootstrap - saving clueless
+Google's Datastore and NoSQL in general, and of course, Twitter Bootstrap--saving clueless
non-designer developers since its inception.
And now, I'm rewriting it from scratch, this time trying out TDD, making use of
diff --git a/content/posts/i-did-not-sign-that-stupid-petition.md b/content/posts/i-did-not-sign-that-stupid-petition.md
index 70eafae..9056065 100644
--- a/content/posts/i-did-not-sign-that-stupid-petition.md
+++ b/content/posts/i-did-not-sign-that-stupid-petition.md
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
## What happened?
Apparently someone used my RMIT student email address to sign some petition for disbanding the
-university's Student Council. Said petition was apparently started by the Ms. Trần Ngọc Tuệ Mẫn -
+university's Student Council. Said petition was apparently started by some Ms. Trần Ngọc Tuệ Mẫn -
Student Council's vice president. Well... yay for free speech, I guess? Anyway, my name was really
among the signers list:
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ ## Why do I even care?
- The number of signers keep going up steadily, but slowly. Maybe our friendly neighborhood
signerman is doing it all by hand instead of a script? If it's the former... let's say I do
- admire the dedication.
+ admire the dedication <strike>and abhor the absolute stupidity</strike>.
- Is it normal for a student council to be this full of drama?
diff --git a/content/posts/look-ma-no-stock-theme.md b/content/posts/look-ma-no-stock-theme.md
index cbb7541..168e254 100644
--- a/content/posts/look-ma-no-stock-theme.md
+++ b/content/posts/look-ma-no-stock-theme.md
@@ -1,10 +1,16 @@
Title: Look ma, no stock theme!
Date: 2015-06-05 13:54
+
+_**October 2017 Update**: Now that I like high contrast more, I just updated the theme to a
+black/white/red palette with a [high-quality serif font][8] instead. Thanks [Mr. Butterick][9]!_
+
+<hr>
+
I just redesigned my blog.
To be totally honest, the previous design was not mine at all. I've always been using
-[pelican-octopress-them][1], which is a Pelican port of the default theme for Octopress. It's not
+[pelican-octopress-theme][1], which is a Pelican port of the default theme for Octopress. It's not
that I have anything to complain about that theme: it was clean, readable and easy on the eyes. I
just want my site to look unique. Content is king, sure, but it wouldn't hurt to stand out from the
crowd once in a while.
@@ -30,7 +36,8 @@ ## Clean and lightweight
-I guess I can do nothing about the font files though. Oh well, at least it looks awesome.
+I guess there's nothing I can do about the font files though, since I need to make sure my
+Vietnamese posts are rendered in a font that supports it. Oh well, at least it looks awesome.
## Content is king
@@ -54,8 +61,8 @@ ## That's it!
You can find the source code to my theme [on GitHub][7]. I don't recommend using it as-is though,
since I haven't implemented many required templates (authors, tags, categories, etc.) because I
-don't use them. There's also the hardcoded footer. But honestly, the main reason is I just want my
-site to stay unique :P
+don't use them. There's also the hardcoded content in footer and probably a few more places. Maybe
+someday I'll stop being lazy and fix all that. *Maybe*.
[1]: https://github.com/duilio/pelican-octopress-theme/
[2]: https://developers.google.com/fonts/docs/getting_started#Effects
@@ -64,3 +71,5 @@ ## That's it!
[5]: http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/
[6]: http://www.kaikkonendesign.fi/typography/
[7]: https://github.com/nhanb/motherfucking-pelican-theme
+[8]: https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-serif-pro
+[9]: https://practicaltypography.com/
diff --git a/content/posts/my-first-diy-fightstick.md b/content/posts/my-first-diy-fightstick.md
index 1019cbf..42cb1c5 100644
--- a/content/posts/my-first-diy-fightstick.md
+++ b/content/posts/my-first-diy-fightstick.md
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ ## Materials and tools
bought a [Zero Delay PCB kit][zd] from ebay. This one even offers free shipping since it's from
China. This kit offers easy solder-free wires too so it saved me from a lot of trouble (I still
can't find where to quick-disconnect terminals to this date). I connected everything to my PC to
-test if things work as expected:
+test if things worked as expected:
diff --git a/pelicanconf.py b/pelicanconf.py
index a94636f..317704c 100644
--- a/pelicanconf.py
+++ b/pelicanconf.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
AUTHOR = u'Bùi Thành Nhân'
SITENAME = u'Nerdy Weekly'
-SITESUBTITLE = u'Thoughts on programming and other stuff that matters'
+SITESUBTITLE = u'Musings on the joy of computing... or lack thereof'
SITEURL = ''
THEME = u'./motherfucking-pelican-theme'
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@
MINIFY = {
'remove_comments': False,
- 'remove_all_empty_space': True,
+ 'remove_all_empty_space': False,
'remove_optional_attribute_quotes': False
}