A solutions architect with 30+ years of building things that (mostly) don’t break in production. I work with Azure, .NET, Docker, and whatever else looks interesting that week.
This is my personal notebook. No editorial calendar, no corporate polish. Just notes from the work — things I figured out, things I got wrong, and the occasional experiment that got out of hand.
If you want the polished professional version, head over to markhazleton.com. This is the other one.
Posts
11 posts and counting
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A Day of Site Cleanup
Spent the day cleaning up this blog — new domain, GA4, better branding, and rewriting posts that were too polished for their own good. -
Hi! Jekyll Platform Trends and News for 2026
A quick hello and a look at the latest trends in the Jekyll ecosystem heading into spring 2026. -
Happy New Year 2026: State of the Jekyll Ecosystem
Kicking off 2026 with a fresh round of dependency updates. Here's what's new in the Jekyll ecosystem and how the site is evolving. -
I Asked AI to Go Full Chaos Mode and Accidentally Created the Most Beautiful Disaster in Web History
What happens when you tell GitHub Copilot to 'go full chaos and crazy'? You get a glorious 90s nostalgia explosion mixed with Matrix effects and enough rainbow animations to power a small rave. -
Switching to Bootstrap 5 on a Jekyll Site
Dropped the default Minima Sass pipeline and swapped in Bootstrap 5 via CDN. Here's what changed and why it was the right call for a simple blog. -
How I Got the Site Updates Working Again
Fixing GitHub Pages deployment issues caused by platform mismatches and Ruby version incompatibilities in GitHub Actions. -
Using GitHub Copilot Agent Mode on a Jekyll Site
Tried GitHub Copilot's agent mode to add a dark/light theme toggle. It handled the CSS variables and JavaScript without much direction — here's what surprised me. -
Running Jekyll Locally on Windows
Getting a Jekyll site running locally on Windows is not hard, but it's not obvious either. Here's the setup that actually works. -
Still Here
Checking in after a long gap. The site still works, Jekyll still builds, and I still have opinions about things. -
Site Updates
Learning to configure Jekyll and GitHub.io publishing, including config.yml exclusions and build settings. -
First Post
Starting a simple developer blog on GitHub Pages with Jekyll. No grand plan — just somewhere to write things down.
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