John Mark Engle

Site Updates

2016-07-03T00:00:00-07:00

I decided to switch the technology powering this site from WordPress to Jekyll, a static site generator. I don’t post enough to get use out of WordPress’s rich feature set, so it’s not worth the hassle of keeping it up-to-date anymore. I kept the posts that still seem to be getting any traffic and archived the others.

I found these to be helpful resources in the transition:

Jekyll Quick-start - Get Jekyll up and running.
Fix homebrew - I had problems with brew after ugrading to El Capitan. Turns out it was permissions issues with my /usr/local directory.
WordPress to Jekyll Exporter - One-click plugin to export your WordPress content
Google Analytics setup for Jekyll - I knew there had to be a good strategy for including analytics, and this seems straightforward enough without having to reinvent the wheel.

Stop Unwanted Credit Card Mailings

2012-01-07T03:18:05-08:00

If you want to receive less junk mail, you’ll be interested in optoutprescreen.com.

This site lets you choose to stop receiving any kind of “prescreened” offer.

This list of frequently asked questions on the FTC’s site can fill you in on the details.

I hope this helps! I went through the process about a month ago, and the amount of junk mail I’ve been getting is drastically reduced.

How to Stop RedPlum Coupon Mailings

2009-02-10T15:59:59-08:00

[Update 3/21/2020 The link was broken: the URL redirects to a 404 on a different domain than originally linked. Removing the link; I think they make this easier these days anyway.]

~~Do you get those annoying RedPlum junk mail coupons that you never use? Do you wish you could save some trees?~~

I received one additional mailing after submitting my cancellation request, but they stopped coming! Much respect for RedPlum and their parent company for making the opt-out process so easy. If only they could switch to an opt-in model…