Family Tree Research
I've recently restarted my genealogical research efforts, to find out more about my family's history.
In many cases, especially people of Jewish-European origins, not much is known by the ones who stayed alive (20th century Europe has seen a lot).
Many archives are recent, and some German/Polish/Russian archives have only recently been scanned and digitized.Posted in TechnologyBest of 2015
As most of you have noticed, I (almost) always post on a Thursday.
This year, for the first time since 2009, New Year's Eve is on a Thursday!
So first of all Happy New Year everyone! Let's make this year kick 2015's ass!Posted in TechnologyFinding the Top JavaScript Cities in Europe
I've recently read an interesting article, talking about the job market for JavaScript in 2016.
While the article presented great points on why Web Developers should invest some time and work with JavaScript, the job & market related information was US-centric. I wanted to see how things look like on the European front.Posted in TechnologyTips for Jekyll development
Continuing the WordPress to Jekyll series,
I've decided to give a few Jekyll tips that I've learned in the process of converting my website.Jekyll serve at the speed of light
Over 5 years, I've written quite a few posts, over 500 posts.
To test Jekyll out (for development) you have to run the following command:However, with 500+ posts, it takes about 70-90 seconds to build, which is annoying if you're making small tweaks,1jekyll serve
that take minutes to compile.
There's a cool little trick to make compilation happen a lot quicker, by limiting the number of posts:This will only compile the last 3 posts, which is enough for 99% of test cases anyways.1jekyll serve --limit_posts=3
The average compilation time with the limit_posts parameter is about 3-4 seconds.
This is a great trick especially if you have a bigger blog with 1000+ posts.Posted in TechnologyMoving from WordPress to Jekyll
Since last week you may have noticed something different about the website.
Maybe it seems to load quicker, or it looks a tiny bit different, or perhaps you've noticed that the footer is much slimmer.
The reason is: KidsIL has once again been transformed!Posted in Technology
Continuing the WordPress to Jekyll series,