Hello, world!
The classic first blog post. This post marks the move to WordPress. All content before this one is from my old 11ty based website.
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Back to basics: WordPress!
If you’re a regular (LOL) on this website you may have noticed that literally everything is different and all old content is gone as well. Sorry about that! I’ve moved my website from a static webpage...
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A new chapter
In January 2014, I joined Synoa in its founding days as a Web Developer, focused on Magento 1 and WordPress at the time. Now, 9 years later, I decided it’s time to move on. I’m super exited to say...
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Setting up a MacBook from scratch for the first time in 8 years
Oh boy, did I not think about a lot of stuf… For the past 8 or so years I’ve always used my work MacBook for all things dev, including private development. I’ve spent a lot of time setting up and...
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Integrating WordPress Posts with 11ty
If you’ve followed me around the internetz it comes as no surprise that I’m a huge fan of 11ty – a JavaScript based static-site generator that’s super flexible, can be extended, and is really fun to...
View ArticleEleventy 3.0.0-alpha.2
I just updated https://kevin.gimbel.dev/ops to Eleventy 3.0.0-alpha.2 The update was rather smooth, which I expected given the small code base of my website. The diff can be seen here on GitHub:...
View ArticleWhere to put things?
In the middle of moving my websites around I wonder where to put things. I blog in German on a more “private-and-casual” blog, and I blog more professionally (lol) and in English here. I like to keep...
View ArticleA little hiccup
Well, looks like kevingimbel.de was (partly?) down – as far as I can tell the culprit was ipv6! In the past I’ve not really bothered with ipv6 much but it feels odd to leave it out these days. Sorry...
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I moved all my photo posts to this website
As part of my big “move ALL THE THINGS around” server consolidation I now moved a lot of photography content to this site, so feel free to read through Photography blog posts or check out the series...
View ArticleOn shrimp 🦐
Yesterday I was reading a blog post titled “You don’t have to be a “content creator” to have a website.” by Ana Rodrigues and it felt right at home with what I believe: Having a website is incredible....
View ArticleRE: You’re a Blogger, Not an Essayist
Blogging is a conversation. It’s a conversation with yourself and it’s a conversation with others. Barry Hess via https://bjhess.com/posts/you-re-a-blogger-not-an-essayist Some real talk right there....
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