Hi, my name is Jonathan Frei.
Pardon the mess while I get things reset up online. You can email me at hi [@] jonathan frei dot com or reach me on X at @jonathanfrei although I don’t post anymore.
Earlier iterations of this site are still available online. I published v1 on Blogger from 2009 to 2010; v2 on Tumblr from 2010 to 2014; v3 on a self-hosted Wordpress from 2014 to 2022 (online version is now a static copy hosted in an S3 bucket); v4 lives in Github and is distributed through Cloudflare from 2022 to 2026.
The current site is built with Jekyll, deployed via GitHub Actions, and served through Cloudflare.
Short posts live on the blog. Longer writing will appear as articles. A portfolio or photo galleries may come later.
Recent posts and links
- Styling Markdown with Kramdown Attributes
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NearbyWiki is a cool site that finds Wikipedia entries near your current location. It’s a project by Hello Digital World
NearbyWiki
NearbyWiki: Wikipedia places nearby
Explore interesting places nearby listed on Wikipedia. Discover sights and destinations in your area or a travel destination.
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This book won’t teach you how to actually make software - it’s not a tutorial or a guide but rather something more interesting than that. It’s a manual that explains how the things you use everyday actually work.
It won’t make you a better designer or programmer tomorrow - there’s nothing actionable in here. But knowing how things work comes in handy when you find yourself out of your depth. Or at the very least, you can pretend to be smart in front of your friends. You don’t need to be technical to read this - there are a lot of pictures and diagrams to do the heavy lifting. You just need to be curious.
- Making Management Smaller
