Introducing the NDJSON Formatter
A quick announcement for the new NDJSON Formatter on hluska.ca: a local-only browser tool for formatting NDJSON and JSONL files, plus a first step toward a fuller Siteimp support workbench.
Siteimp has reached the desktop
Siteimp has evolved from an old performance-testing script collection into a local-first Windows desktop application for website integrity, accessibility, content analysis, monitoring, media inspection, and support diagnostics. This article explains how the project came back to life, why the cloud version stalled, how Tauri made the desktop version practical, and how testing Siteimp against real websites exposed the exact small problems it was built to find.
A New Year
While 2025 proved to be a year full of learning, 2026 will be a year of putting that learning to action.
Introducing StorePhotos - An Easy Way to Organize Photos
Introducing StorePhotos—a fully local way to organize photos without relying on the cloud. Developed alongside FitnessTracker, StorePhotos keeps your images private while offering powerful organization, cross-device support, and easy-to-access customer service.
On tooling
This article takes a quick look at some of the tools being used to build FitnessTracker and goes over why I chose to use each of them.
Final results from my site improvement program
After a very busy week, I ran another SiteImp report and checked my progress. Results were fairly good though I have reached a point where my optimizations have started to cause improvements in some areas and regressions in others. I'll conclude my series on optimizing hluska.ca.
Writing a Hugo shortcode to optimize my images with UI Kit
UI Kit has some very handy site performance features. Applying the .uk-img attribute to <img> attributes is one of the handiest but I couldn't get existing Hugo shortcodes to work properly so I wrote my own.
Minifying my site with Hugo on DigitalOcean App Platform
Minifying html is sort of a habit and so I decided to cover minifying Hugo sites deployed through DigitalOcean's App Platform.
Looking at my contact page and rethinking Font Awesome
I ran a second SiteImp audit and discovered that while my overall site was better, my contact page was still dragging down overall performance. It's time to decide whether Font Awesome is worth it.
Checking in on these changes
I ran a second SiteImp audit to check out what sort of performance impact working on my critical resource path created. My results were good at the beginning, but the simple changes made a big difference.