https://marcsantos.comGatsbyJSMon, 01 Jun 2026 23:35:14 GMThttps://marcsantos.com/blog/2026/05/disqus-to-giscus-in-gatsbyhttps://marcsantos.com/blog/2026/05/disqus-to-giscus-in-gatsbySun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTI ran Disqus on this site for years, and it did its job. Comments appeared, people used them occasionally, and I didn't have to think about it much. That stability was valuable, but it wasn't enough…https://marcsantos.com/blog/2026/05/masonry-grid-implementationhttps://marcsantos.com/blog/2026/05/masonry-grid-implementationSun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTMaking photo galleries feel natural I wanted a cleaner way to browse photos without forcing every image into the same height. A regular CSS grid looked fine in mockups, but it fell apart once I mixed…https://marcsantos.com/blog/2026/04/japan-14-day-itineraryhttps://marcsantos.com/blog/2026/04/japan-14-day-itinerarySun, 26 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTPlanning a 14-day Japan trip eventually turned into train schedules, hotel check-ins, reservation windows, and a pinned map that kept growing. This was our trip: April 29 to May 12, 2026, flying into…https://marcsantos.com/blog/2026/04/disqus-in-gatsbyhttps://marcsantos.com/blog/2026/04/disqus-in-gatsbySun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTI moved away from Blogger in October 2016 and had no comment capability for a while. I added Disqus in May 2020, and this post is a retrospective of how I implemented it. My goals were pretty specific…https://marcsantos.com/blog/2026/03/beat-docs-drifthttps://marcsantos.com/blog/2026/03/beat-docs-driftSun, 29 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTI use npm run docs:check as a lightweight guardrail against documentation drift. Under the hood it's one script: node scripts/check-docs.js. I wrote it after the third time I found a broken file…https://marcsantos.com/blog/2026/03/travel-map-buildhttps://marcsantos.com/blog/2026/03/travel-map-buildSun, 15 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTIt was supposed to be simple I wanted one thing: a map showing where my photos were taken. One pin per location, nothing clever, no surprise API bills at the end of the month. Then I actually started…https://marcsantos.com/blog/2026/03/fifteen-years-in-and-countinghttps://marcsantos.com/blog/2026/03/fifteen-years-in-and-countingSun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTSo… what’s the point of all this? Honestly, it started small. I wanted my own personalized @ email address, and this website became a side effect. Looking back at more than a decade of iterations…