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The incredibly well-designed website of designer/developer Henry Desroches and some equally beautiful advice found in his writings.
One of my favorite bloggers Kev Quirk threw out a challenge post to answer questions about blogging so I decided to answer.
A quick little python script to convert your most recent bookmarks on the raindrop.io app to a local .json file using their API
Some of the best open-source and free tools I use for converting websites and git repos into structured markdown data for improved LLM ingestion
How I find quality RSS feeds that are worth subscribing to. There are a lot of search tools and directories on the internet to help but how do you sift through the noise and find the content sources that actually are interesting? Try Feedle!
A great album poster generator that is written in python and uses the Spotify API to pull the cover image. Highly customizable, looks great in dark mode and can print most lyrics at the bottom
Updates to the Follow RSS Aggregator including Obsidian integration, email newsletters, webhooks and user-generated puzzles for access codes
A quick tutorial on the difference between Python virtual environments Venv and Virtualenv and how to use both
Burger King's launch of their 2009 Angry Whopper campaign was nothing short of Facebook Debauchery as they rewarded users of the platform who were willing to publicly de-friend 10 in their network in exchange for a free burger coupon. The campaign changed social media marketing forever.
The Dos Equis - The Most Interesting Man In the World ad campaign was one of the most popular, most back-linked pages on the old brentter.com blog back in 2007. Now we revisit that campaign, add some content since it was still airing new versions ten years later and explain why we chose this specific old page out of all the others.
A guide to implementing easy 301 redirects to send traffic from one link or website to another. 301 redirects can be used to help boost your SEO by letting search engines know that those old backlinks should now be going to your new page. Whether you're changing the domain of your blog, re-arranging the website structure or hoping to siphon some...
A guide to adding your own auto-updating recently played music page to your hugo site
How to add raw html content to your hugo pages or posts
The new must-try RSS app named Follow is here and I'm going to show you how it works
A Quick tutorial on using wget to download anything
My /Uses Page aka A list of some of the things I use in my day to day life/work
Get all the links the WayBack Machine has for a domain
Restarting this blog after 10 years of it being an empty, one page placeholder. 15 years ago though it was one of the top independant advertising blogs on the internet. I think it's been long enough, I need to share again.
A little history on the man behind the domain, what this domain looked like 10 years ago and what it hopefully will look like 10 years from now, Hi I'm Brent. I started going by brentter online sometime around 2001.