Starboy-Xo

Using Git to Manage a Live Web Site

Overview

As a freelancer, I build a lot of web sites. That's a lot of code changes to track. Thankfully, a Git-enabled workflow with proper branching makes short work of project tracking. I can easily see development features in branches as well as a snapshot of the sites' production code. A nice addition to that workflow is that ability to use Git to push updates to any of the various sites I work on while committing changes.

Contents

• Prerequisites
• Getting Started

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WSL 2 GNOME Desktop

NOTE: If you want the ultimate Linux desktop experience, I highly recommend installing Linux as your main OS. I no longer use Windows (except in a VM) so I will not be maintaining this guide anymore.

Think Xfce looks dated? Want a conventional Ubuntu experience? This tutorial will guide you through installing Ubuntu's default desktop environment, GNOME.

GNOME is one of the more complex — and that means more difficult to run — desktop environments, so for years people couldn't figure [o

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It's 2020 and I made an RSS feed for my blog (with Python)

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21 May 2020 - This is a post on my blog. Grab the RSS feed here 😉

I was recently telling someone about all of the awesome blog posts I have sitting in my backlog, just waiting to actually be written. They asked if there was a way to subscribe or get notified when my next post was live. The answer was "watch my Twitter", which was admittedly unsatisfactory.

Coincidentally I have been seeing a number of recent articles on the desire for more independent blog content and a return to RSS-based syndication. I think this is all part of a broader push for a (return to a?) m