Alex MacArthur

I've used self-hosted Plausible Analytics to power the web analytics for several of my sites for years now. I've been extremely happy with it and would love to make it easier for others to do the same. Thanks for checking this out!

Too many website images are poorly optimized & unperformant, and it's too much of a hassle to fix them. Images are, in fact, often the most expensive asset on a website, and neglecting to optimize them can wreak havoc in multiple ways — most notably, user experience and SEO. Meanwhile, virtually all modern browsers support modern image formats like .webp, but a very small percentage of...

I've been blogging on/off for a while now. When I first got started, I was pretty unimpressed with the options available for adding comments to a website (particularly for static site generators), but ended up settling with Disqus anyway. It's a good tool for the right use cases, but for me, I just wanted something simple, performant, and non-intrusive when it comes to managing personal data...

MUUUCH thanks for all the feedback I've gotten on Keycast. I'm already working on some of the suggestions I've gotten as well as working out some of the kinks. One of the most requested features so far has been auto-scrolling, so that you don't have to keep manually swiping down to see a longer cast. That's out in production now, which you can see with this cast:...