# Stupid obsessions
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For the last few years, I've been pretty good about only focusing on projects that advance my long-term plans. However, there are occasionally little things that don't really help me. The last few days was one of those projects. Recently, I switched over to Jekyll[1] because WordPress was giving me a hard time. I worked on it for a few days, but stopped because I really needed to work on other things.

=> http://jekyllrb.com/ 1: http://jekyllrb.com/

And then two days ago… oh, that was not the smartest thing to do. I wanted to fix a couple minor things, mainly breadcrumbs and navigation for posts. I figured it'd be a couple hours effort and I'd be done.

I managed to get breadcrumbs back in on the posts, navigation, and everything else that I planned on doing it. However, I had to write a lot of other programs and reinvent the wheel to get everything working together.

# Obsession

Somewhere in the middle of last night, I knew that I should have just let it go and used the old version. I have writing and programming to do, not obsess about getting annual and month archives on the site.

Around midnight, I even said “just put it down,” but I couldn't. It was haunting me. I kept telling myself “just a few seconds until I'm done.” Of course, I knew that wasn't true, but I had so much trouble putting it down.

This evening, I finally finished the coding on the site. I only fixed a few minor things, ones that no one will probably notice, but now I'm happier with the site. And I can let it go.

## Jekyll and Ruby

I'll admit, some of the obsession comes from solving problems. I don't know Ruby very well (the language Jekyll is written in) and I was trying to just “get it working” which means I use Perl to prototype. Yeah, it isn't the right way of doing it, but it's the way I think and the time I was willing to put into it.

Sooner or later, I'll have to learn how to write some of these features in Ruby and proper Jekyll plugins, but the Perl version[2] seems to work for what I want, including all those breadcrumbs, collection gathering, and archives.

=> https://github.com/dmoonfire/mfgames-jekyll-perl 2: https://github.com/dmoonfire/mfgames-jekyll-perl

Now, I can do what I was suppose to do.


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