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Performant Websites with Jekyll, Grunt, GitHub Pages, and CloudFlare – Development, design, and more by @DavidEnsinger

http://davidensinger.com/2015/01/performant-websites-with-jekyll-grunt-github-pages-and-cloudflare

Performant Websites with Jekyll, Grunt, GitHub Pages, and CloudFlare. January 10, 2015. Over the past year I’ve been slowly improving the performance of this website and Webworke.rs. I’ve put a lot of work into my sites, but many of the performance improvements couldn’t have been made so easily without the great ecosystem of open source software and free services available to me. To say that I’m thankful for this is a gross understatement. Both of my sites are built with a combination of Jekyll. And orga...

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About – Development, design, and more by @DavidEnsinger

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Hi, my name is David Ensinger. And I’m a Front End Developer. With equal parts interest in design, development, and writing. I develop websites that are well designed, useable, and adhere to modern standards and accessibility requirements. I’m also no slouch at writing documentation, leading training, and providing ongoing support. My clients and co-workers will vouch that I play well with others too. I’m currently employed at Acceptd. For my personal web presence, see the Republic of the Spirit.

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How to Dynamically Include SVGs Inline with Jekyll – Development, design, and more by @DavidEnsinger

http://davidensinger.com/2014/11/how-to-dynamically-include-svgs-inline-with-jekyll

How to Dynamically Include SVGs Inline with Jekyll. November 09, 2014. My website about local folks who make websites), I link to the social media accounts of the people I profile to help promote the work they do. To do this, I dynamically include an SVG icon (and link) for each of their respective social media accounts. The SVG icons are kept in the. Directory and they’re added to the page template with some YAML Front Matter. And a Liquid for loop. Https:/ www.linkedin.com/in/davidensinger. Ode to Grun...

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Development, design, and more by @DavidEnsinger

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Update Your @font-face Definitions to Just Use WOFF (and WOFF2). October 23, 2014. This is a public service announcement: You probably don’t need the other file formats. Fun with JSTL in JSPs. July 30, 2014. And now for something completely different. Transferring the DNS from Namecheap to CloudFlare for GitHub Pages. April 19, 2014. Speed up your site by taking advantage of CloudFlare’s CNAME Flattening. How to Include a Footer in your Site’s Feed for Jekyll. March 17, 2014. February 15, 2014.

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Ode to Grunt, Yeoman, and Generator-jekyllrb – Development, design, and more by @DavidEnsinger

http://davidensinger.com/2014/11/ode-to-grunt-yeoman-and-generator-jekyllrb

Ode to Grunt, Yeoman, and Generator-jekyllrb. November 21, 2014. About a year ago I learned about Yeoman. Two tools that have since changed my web development workflow drastically. I had just started development on Webworke.rs. Which like this site is built with Jekyll. I decided to look into a generator for Yeoman and lo and behold I discovered Generator-jekyllrb. A fantastic project by @robwierzbowski. Per the project’s description:. Sure Jekyll can compile Sass and CoffeeScript, but otherwise I need a...

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Critical Path CSS in Jekyll with Penthouse and loadCSS – Development, design, and more by @DavidEnsinger

http://davidensinger.com/2014/12/critical-path-css-in-jekyll-with-penthouse-and-loadcss

Critical Path CSS in Jekyll with Penthouse and loadCSS. December 14, 2014. With every passing month more and more people are browsing the internet via their mobile devices. It only makes sense for us as developers to optimize our sites for those visitors, who may be using an unreliable or slow internet connection when visiting our sites. There are many optimizations. One can make, but this post will focus on elimating blocking CSS requests from the. A wrapper for Penthouse. Is saved in my includes. I’ve ...

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Update Your @font-face Definitions to Just Use WOFF (and WOFF2) – Development, design, and more by @DavidEnsinger

http://davidensinger.com/2014/10/update-your-font-face-file-formats-to-just-use-woff-and-woff2

Update Your @font-face Definitions to Just Use WOFF (and WOFF2). October 23, 2014. I have been working to simplify this site, which means that I’ve been reevaluating decisions I made more than a year and a half ago. Many of these were based on assumptions that may no longer be valid. Since the initial build of this site, the browser support for @font-face. My Previous Implementation You may know this as the Bulletproof @font-face Syntax. The browser support for WOFF. You may edit before posting.). With a...

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About — Webworke.rs

http://webworke.rs/about

Life and Craft in Columbus, OH. David Ensinger is a Front End Developer for Acceptd. The world’s largest arts network. He’s lately been interested in building performant, usable, and accessible websites. To learn more about his development interests, visit davidensinger.com. Or follow him on Twitter at @DavidEnsinger. Or visit his oft-neglected blog at Republic of the Spirit. Uarr; Back to top. Webworke.rs — Life and Craft in Columbus, OH.

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Setting the DNS for GitHub Pages on Namecheap – Development, design, and more by @DavidEnsinger

http://davidensinger.com/2013/03/setting-the-dns-for-github-pages-on-namecheap

Setting the DNS for GitHub Pages on Namecheap. March 27, 2013. March 20, 2016. After pushing my site to GitHub. And verifying that it worked at davidensinger.github.io. I then went to set up my custom domain name. The documentation. Provided by GitHub is clear on the subject, but I still managed to forget about my subdomains. For more than eight hours, anyone who attempted to visit davidensinger.com. Was served with a 404, which is rather embarrassing. For one who makes a living as a developer. Find the ...