Christopher Bennell

I build web stuff. Full Stack/Platform Engineering/Architecture. Senior Software Engineer.

Posts tagged “bridgetown”

2 posts

• 2 min read

Bridgetown, TailwindCSS and Kamal: A Tricky Deploy Bug

Deploying a Bridgetown site with Kamal? Watch out for a sneaky Tailwind bug. When the jit-refresh.css file is gitignored, fresh checkouts fail silently during the build process, stripping all your Tailwind styles. Here's how to fix it with a simple esbuild plugin instead of patching your Dockerfile.
• 3 min read

Migrating from Wordpress to Bridgetown

I've used WordPress for many years. It no longer suits my needs as well as it used to, so I've been investigating alternatives, inlcuding migrating this site to Bridgetown, a Ruby-based static site generator. And the switch feels principled and liberating.