commit a1ec5f5b2d15d8eae43e96cc1b3a8849f633310e
parent 05adea25d4d6b9556b821f76ed17edf7e707a4fd
Author: Jake Bauer <jbauer@paritybit.ca>
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2019 23:36:09 -0400
Change Essays to Blogs and add new post
Diffstat:
6 files changed, 94 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/build/header.html b/build/header.html
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
<div id="side-bar">
<ul>
<li><a href="/">Home<a/></li>
- <li><a href="/essays">Essays</a></li>
+ <li><a href="/blog">Blog</a></li>
<li><a href="/projects">Projects</a></li>
<li><a href="/guides">Guides<a/></li>
<li><a href="/about-me">About Me</a></li>
diff --git a/createpages.sh b/createpages.sh
@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@ for page in $@; do
# Assumes first line of every markdown file is the header in the format:
# "## Title of The Page"
pagetitle=$(head -n 1 $filepath/$pagename.md | cut -f 2- -d " ")
+ echo " Setting page title..."
sed -i "s/<title>.*<\/title>/<title>paritybit.ca – ${pagetitle//&/\\&}<\/title>/" \
$htmldir/$savepath/$pagename.html
@@ -80,6 +81,7 @@ for page in $@; do
metatext=$(sed '3!d' $filepath/$pagename.md | cut -d# -f 2)
# Remove leading whitespace
metatextclean=$(echo -e "${metatext}" | sed -e 's/^[[:space:]]*//')
+ echo " Setting meta tag..."
sed -i "s/content=\"\"/content=${metatextclean//&/\\&}/" \
$htmldir/$savepath/$pagename.html
diff --git a/pages/blog.md b/pages/blog.md
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+## Blog
+
+[//]: # "This is the place where I put all of my ramblings, rants, essays, and random thoughts and ideas."
+
+[//]: # "base.min.css"
+
+This is the place where I put all of my ramblings, rants, essays, and random thoughts and ideas.
+
+Below you can find links to things that I have posted:
+
+### Blogs
+<ul>
+ <li><a href="blog/qutebrowser-to-firefox">Why I Switched Back to Firefox
+ from Qutebrowser</a></li>
+</ul>
+
+### Essays
+
+None yet!
diff --git a/pages/blog/qutebrowser-to-firefox.md b/pages/blog/qutebrowser-to-firefox.md
@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+## Why I Switched Back to Firefox from Qutebrowser
+
+[//]: # "I've been using qutebrowser for about six months now but I found it really wasn't meeting my needs. In this post I explain the reasons why I switched back to using Firefox."
+
+[//]: # "base.min.css"
+
+<b>Written By:</b> Jake Bauer |
+ <b>Posted:</b> 2019-06-20 |
+ <b>Last Updated:</b> 2019-06-20
+
+I've been using qutebrowser for about six months now as my primary browser after
+switching to it from GNU/IceCat seeking a browsing experience with solid
+vim-like controls. At first, I enjoyed the simplicity and shortcuts afforded by
+qutebrowser but noticed more and more issues as time went on. Qutebrowser, while
+very usable as a browser, falls short in some key areas that are important to
+me.
+
+Privacy online is something that is very important to me and should be important
+to everyone who uses the internet. It's one of the reasons I donate to the
+<a href="https://www.eff.org">Electronic Frontier Foundation</a> and probably
+the biggest reason I switched back to Firefox from qutebrowser. Although there
+are limited things you can do in qutebrowser to block some trackers such as
+changing your user agent string, it is still quite limited compared to Firefox.
+You have to launch qutebrowser with a command line flag just to disable reading
+from the HTML canvas and there isn't even an option to disable WebRTC. This is
+in stark contrast to Firefox which—even ignoring the capabilities of extensions
+such as <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-badger17/">Privacy Badger</a>
+and <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/">uBlock Origin</a>—allows
+you to enable privacy features like fingerprinting resistance and disable
+potentially bad features like WebRTC from within the built-in configuration
+window.
+
+Another big factor is that some sites which I would use would have elements that
+wouldn't load or work properly in qutebrowser and I would have to switch over to
+Firefox to use them. For example, I run a Proxmox virtualization host on my
+server and any time I tried view my virtual machines using noVNC or Spice, the
+screens would be black and it wouldn't work. Another issue happens when websites
+update search suggestions live as you type. With the way some websites would do
+this, I would get kicked out of insert mode in the middle of typing which would
+usually result in the tab suddenly closing or me activating something I didn't
+intend to activate since I was booted back to normal mode. This made for a very
+frustrating browsing experience on those websites. This specific point isn't so
+much a fault with qutebrowser and more a fault with some modern websites but,
+alas, it made using Firefox feel that much smoother and better.
+
+I also found Firefox much easier to develop on compared to qutebrowser. It could
+be because I'm just not used to the Chromium-family set of web development tools
+but I find Firefox's set much more intuitive and the easy-to-use live stylesheet
+editor makes it really easy for me to experiment with what my web pages look
+like right in the browser. Plus I found the network-related tools easier to
+understand and navigate in Firefox than in qutebrowser.
+
+Those are the big three reasons why I switched back to Firefox but I did have
+some other very minor problems which, when put all together, pushed me over the
+edge to switch. The first of which is that, since I use KeePassXC as my password
+manager, the extension available for Firefox makes it much more convenient to
+enter my credentials instead of having to copy-paste. The second is that Firefox
+is using the Gecko web rendering engine which I feel better about using due to
+Mozilla's commitment to a free and open web. The last minor reason for making me
+switch is that Firefox has multiple extensions which enable vim-like controls.
+Although these can't be as full-featured as a browser designed around those
+controls, I have found the one I am using—<a
+href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vim-vixen/">Vim
+Vixen</a>—to be good enough for my uses.
+
+Overall, qutebrowser still is a commendable browser and, if the reasons I listed
+above don't really concern you that much, I would recommend checking it out.
+Unfortunately it didn't fit well with what I wanted out of a browser and that's
+why I switched from qutebrowser to Firefox.
diff --git a/pages/essays.md b/pages/essays.md
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-## Essays
-
-[//]: # "Essays on computer science, life, software development, and more."
-
-[//]: # "base.min.css"
-
-There are no essays here yet but check back periodically for more!
diff --git a/pages/home.md b/pages/home.md
@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@ be something that interests you!
### Recently Updated
+<a href="blog/qutebrowser-to-firefox">New Blog Post: Why I Switched Back to
+Firefox from Qutebrowser</a>
+
<a href="projects/dnd/initiative">The D&D Initiative Tracker has just been released!</a>
<a href="projects/dnd/roll">The D&D Dice Roller has been updated!</a>
