By Michael McGarrah ·
12 min read
In a large enterprise, 'Where do I log in?' is a surprisingly expensive question. I built a serverless redirect engine for AWS QuickSight that eliminates login friction, costs under six cents a month, and has run in production for over a year with zero maintenance.
By Michael McGarrah ·
7 min read
Every Jekyll upgrade broke something downstream. Ruby 3.0 dropped webrick. Jekyll 4.3 broke SASS imports. Dart Sass 3.0 deprecated color functions. Node.js 24 forced all GitHub Actions to update. Here's the full upgrade timeline and what each one taught me.
By Michael McGarrah ·
15 min read
After 130+ posts and two years of Jekyll customization, here's the complete feature set behind this blog — from Mermaid diagrams and KaTeX math to GDPR compliance, Pandoc exports, and the SEO pipeline. A look behind the curtain at what it takes to run a technical blog on GitHub Pages.
By Michael McGarrah ·
10 min read
I've been writing about technology since 2004. This blog has lived on WordPress, Blogger, and now Jekyll on GitHub Pages. Here's how I set it up, what I added along the way, and what I'd do differently if I started over.
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