Sal's

I’m Sal, and this is my spot. I write purely for fun and about whatever interests me in the moment.

I write two groups of pages: my blog and, as of July 2026, my notes.

Thanks for visiting, and feel free to email me and say hi!

Latest stuff

  • Another fat woops: I published my drafts
    Learning the hard way in Hugo.
  • Blog-post resiliency
    Mike shares some good tips on making our blog posts more resilient to the winds of time.
  • Finding my draft posts with ripgrep
    Ripgrep is the best.
  • Smoke in Portland
    We've been lucky this summer, but the smoke finally got us.
  • An RSS oopsie, props to Pablo at powRSS
    I made an oopsie and two wonderful people took the time to alert me.
  • Moved the blog from 11ty to Hugo
    For reasons. Sort of.
  • Belated welcome to Blaugust
    Oh sure, I'll join in the fun.
  • Cursive
    It didn't stick.
  • Re: productivity mirage
    On preparing to work vs. just getting after it.
  • Re: Bubbles, upvotes, web interlinking
    I still don't like those upvotes.
  • See more in the archive.