Let’s track current progress: 2012: move from homegrown static site solution to jekyll 2013: incorporate LESS CSS, RequireJS, minification using Gruntfile.js. I can laugh at it now as the title is “The Perfect Blogging Workflow”. Heh. 2014: migrate from GoDaddy/IIS/WCF/C#/MySQL to DigitalOcean/Apache/Flask/Python/SQLite. 2015: I didn’t write about it, but change did happen. Move frontend dependencies to bower. Still using grunt but starting to use webpack to generate sourcemaps and minify. Use skeleton.css for theme. 2016: this post! Theme Update Skeleton.css, while a good fit for general content, didn’t quite feel right from a blogging perspective. It didn’t seem to emphasize the content like I had hoped. Skeleton also recommended the usage of the Raleway font, which increased the number of requests sent and time to download. A blog, should really be the fastest page on the internet. Taking a fast site and making it faster will be a theme in this post (no pun intended).
