https://blog.uptick.be/posts/Recent content in Posts on My BlogHugoenWed, 04 Nov 2026 09:00:00 +0000https://blog.uptick.be/posts/how-this-blog-is-built/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 09:00:00 +0000https://blog.uptick.be/posts/how-this-blog-is-built/<p>This blog is a pile of Markdown files, a tiny theme and a handful of shell scripts. Publishing a post means pushing to <code>main</code>. About a minute later it is live. This is how the pieces fit together, and what went wrong on the way.</p>https://blog.uptick.be/posts/why-static-sites-still-make-sense/Fri, 30 Oct 2026 08:30:00 +0000https://blog.uptick.be/posts/why-static-sites-still-make-sense/<p>A blog does not need a database. Almost every page is the same for every visitor, so generating it once is cheaper than generating it on every request.</p>https://blog.uptick.be/posts/markdown-cheat-sheet/Tue, 27 Oct 2026 18:00:00 +0000https://blog.uptick.be/posts/markdown-cheat-sheet/<p>Markdown covers nearly everything a blog post needs. This is the part I actually use.</p>https://blog.uptick.be/posts/habits-for-a-blog-that-survives/Sat, 24 Oct 2026 07:45:00 +0000https://blog.uptick.be/posts/habits-for-a-blog-that-survives/<p>Most personal blogs do not die from a lack of ideas. They die from friction. These are the habits that keep the friction low.</p>https://blog.uptick.be/posts/pin-your-versions/Wed, 21 Oct 2026 19:10:00 +0000https://blog.uptick.be/posts/pin-your-versions/<p>&ldquo;It works on my machine&rdquo; has a close relative: &ldquo;it worked last month.&rdquo; The usual cause is a tool that updated itself.</p>https://blog.uptick.be/posts/reading-logs-without-panic/Sun, 18 Oct 2026 10:15:00 +0000https://blog.uptick.be/posts/reading-logs-without-panic/<p>When a pipeline turns red, the instinct is to change something. The better first move is to read the log from the bottom.</p>https://blog.uptick.be/posts/the-humble-404-page/Thu, 15 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000https://blog.uptick.be/posts/the-humble-404-page/<p>Every site has one, and almost nobody designs it. A missing page is a normal event, not an error worth hiding.</p>https://blog.uptick.be/posts/no-analytics-no-problem/Mon, 12 Oct 2026 20:00:00 +0000https://blog.uptick.be/posts/no-analytics-no-problem/<p>This site has no tracking script. It does not know how many people read it, where they came from or how long they stayed.</p>https://blog.uptick.be/posts/boring-infrastructure/Fri, 09 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000https://blog.uptick.be/posts/boring-infrastructure/<p>The best infrastructure is the kind you forget about. A blog should survive months of neglect and still be there when you come back.</p>https://blog.uptick.be/posts/rolling-back-safely/Tue, 06 Oct 2026 17:30:00 +0000https://blog.uptick.be/posts/rolling-back-safely/<p>Sooner or later a change goes live that should not have. What matters then is how fast you can undo it, and whether undoing it is safe.</p>https://blog.uptick.be/posts/small-scripts-big-leverage/Sat, 03 Oct 2026 09:20:00 +0000https://blog.uptick.be/posts/small-scripts-big-leverage/<p>The most valuable files in this repository are about forty lines long. They are shell scripts, and they hold all the logic that matters.</p>https://blog.uptick.be/posts/what-to-write-about/Thu, 01 Oct 2026 11:00:00 +0000https://blog.uptick.be/posts/what-to-write-about/<p>Almost everyone who starts a blog stalls on the same question: what is there to say? The answer is usually closer than it looks.</p>https://blog.uptick.be/posts/hello-world/Wed, 01 Jan 2025 12:00:00 +0000https://blog.uptick.be/posts/hello-world/<p>This is a placeholder post. Replace it with your first real article.</p>