By Michael McGarrah ·
12 min read
GitHub Pages doesn't support tag or category pages out of the box. Here's how I built a custom Jekyll generator plugin that creates them automatically — and the SEO lessons learned along the way.
By Michael McGarrah ·
12 min read
Kiro doesn't ship with Microsoft's WSL extension, and the official extension isn't available on Open VSX. The Open Remote - WSL extension by jeanp413 bridges the gap — but it requires an easy-to-miss argv.json configuration step, breaks predictably on Kiro updates, and has terminal routing quirks that will cost you an hour if you don't know about them. Here's the complete setup, the failure modes, and the recovery procedures.
By Michael McGarrah ·
14 min read
Kiro's ~/.kiro directory stores powers, hooks, agents, and MCP server configs globally — but there's no built-in way to switch between profiles. If you need a Senior Director persona loaded with Atlassian, GitLab, and observability MCPs running alongside a stripped-down developer persona focused on code, you have to get creative. Here's how the path resolution actually works and three approaches to running both simultaneously on macOS and Windows.
By Michael McGarrah ·
9 min read
If you write Jekyll posts about Jekyll, your Liquid code examples will silently vanish — or crash the build. Markdown code fences don't protect Liquid tags from execution. Here's how to find every affected post, why it sneaks up on you, and the fix that actually works.
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