Glass, and the Machine That Built It
Redesigned the site two months after the last redesign, except this time I barely touched it. Fable did the whole thing in under an hour and I spent the next four reading the diff like homework.
Matt Rugamas is a support engineer in Los Angeles.
My work focuses on the intersection of customers, product, and code, with a drive to help support teams scale, and define what the work looks like in an AI-native world.
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2026
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Still on Jekyll, Probably Forever
Every year or so I seriously consider moving to Next or Astro, and every time I end up right back at a folder of Markdown and a git push. Here’s me talking myself out of it again.
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The Redesign
The 2019 version of this site finally got treated like a real project instead of a practice sandbox. Design tokens, mobile-first CSS, a light mode, and a bio that actually says something.
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2019
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Blog Update
More of a life update than a tech post. The job hunt looks like it’s finally ending, so the Jekyll writing goes on the backburner while I get serious about JavaScript.
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2018
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Playing With Jekyll Pt. II (Pages Whitelist)
GitHub Pages only lets you build with plugins from its own whitelist, which is a drag. So I handed the build to Travis CI and let it push the finished pages over instead.
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Playing With Jekyll
Why I landed on Jekyll: SCSS, Markdown, and just enough Liquid to be dangerous. Mostly this is me stripping the tutorial project down to the parts I actually wanted.
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Getting Ready For The Web
Before I could build anything I had to relearn the basics: terminal, Bash, Homebrew, rbenv, Git. The unglamorous setup stage nobody bothers writing about.
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Test Run
The very first post, mostly here to prove the thing deploys. Pretty skeletal at this point, but I had plans.
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