Markdown
2026
Migrating from Jekyll to Hugo Part 1: Why I Made the Switch
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After years of running this blog on Jekyll, I finally made the switch to Hugo. Here’s why.
2023

Embedding Draw.io Diagrams in VSCode
If you’re like me, you love discovering new ways to boost your productivity and workflows. One of my favorite tools is Draw.io. I’ve used the desktop tool and the site, but I found a new integration that has significantly elevated my VSCode experience: the Draw.io Integration extension.

Unleash Your Creativity with Marp Presentation Customization
This is part 2 of the MARP series. You can read the series of articles here:
Marp - Create Presentations with Markdown Unleash Your Creativity with Marp Presentation Customization Introduction # Marp is a powerful Markdown presentation framework that enables you to create stunning slides effortlessly. By using simple text-based formatting, you can easily customize your presentations to suit your unique needs and style. Although Marp provides built-in themes and configurations, the true potential of this framework can be realized by customizing your presentations to suit your unique needs and style. In this blog post, we will delve into some of the key customization options available in Marp and guide you through the process of creating a truly standout presentation.

Marp - Create Presentations with Markdown
This is part 1 of the MARP series. You can read the series of articles here:
Marp - Create Presentations with Markdown Unleash Your Creativity with Marp Presentation Customization Introduction # Marp is a powerful and user-friendly presentation framework that simplifies the process of creating visually appealing slide decks using Markdown. In this blog post, we’ll explore what Marp is, why you might want to use it, how to get started. I’ll share my process and show you how you can automate hosting your presentations on GitHub Pages using GitHub Actions.
2022

Customizing the Jekyll Theme
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I haven’t done a lot with jekyll in the past, but I’m a big fan of Markdown everything. For me that usually means I’m taking notes in Markdown Obsidian, doing diagrams in mermaid in Azure DevOps or https://mermaid.live/. I’ve even started turning my talk slides into Markdown with a tool called MARP.
Understanding when I use standard Markdown or some sort of templating language (jekyll uses Liquid) has been fun. I’ll do something in HTML or Markdown, then find out that Jekyll or my theme already has helpers to render that (like gists, videos, and figures). Sometimes rendering more advanced things takes a little tweaking of Jekyll and the theme.