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 published: false
 title: "Blog Title"
-permalink: /permanent-link/
+permalink: /:title/
 description: "A description of the blog"
 category: technology / productivity / personal / motivational / entertaining
 ---

_drafts/2023-03-23-no-tracking.md

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 published: true
-title: "Why I Stopped Tracking Traffic on My Blog"
+title: "Why I Stopped Tracking Traffic on My Personal Sites"
 permalink: /no-tracking/
 description: "I was never happy about being tracked, why should I do that to others?"
 category: personal
 ---
 
-<!-- In this blog
+Recently, I deleted all the scripts on my personal site that use cookies to track visitors.
-1. background story
-2. content purity not popularity
-3. just keep building
-4. practical reasons: performance, accessibility
- -->
 
 Back in 2021, I deleted my Facebook account that had thousands of connections, and created a new one just for closest family members and friends.
 

_drafts/2023-05-22-holding-off-rewrite.md

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 title: "Seriously Holding Off this Blog's Rewrite to Focus on Content"
-permalink: /holding-off-rewrite/
 description: "Have you ever heard the joke about the web developer who also has a blog? I'm that web developer."
 category: projects
+permalink: /:title/
 ---
 
 The thing about being a web developer and maintaining a personal blog is that you often feel the need to improve the site--even more often than actually writing content. This has become common joke in the tech world.

_drafts/2023-05-23-mind-numbing-refactors.md

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+---
+title: "Mind-Numbing Refactors"
+description: "A description of the blog"
+category: technology
+permalink: /:title/
+---
+
+Currently, I'm re-running all the e2e tests we've written for a frontend project after I fixed the obvious stuff and all the unit tests look stable. Green checks pop-up one at a time to reassure that the application behaviors are still working as expected.
+
+I sigh in relief. I just wrestled with modules after modules with spaghetti imports, and now my current branch has **497 files changed**.<!--more-->
+
+While waiting for the run to finish, I have some time to breathe after this gigantic task I've taken up to myself: organize a codebase that didn't follow any style guide or rules for the structure. Not something I wake up and look forward to do, but it is necessary when joining a project in the middle of its life and you reach a point of confidence degradation.
+
+Okay, now the tests are done. All passed, all green checks. I just have to make sure the branch is synced with the development branch... and, voila! More things to fix due to another [PR](https://thecodebytes.com/what-is-a-pr-pull-request-in-software-development/) we merged recently.
+
+I kind of expected this. Big changes are always difficult, and in this blog I will write the reasons that make it so... (after I fix the merge conflicts. 🥲)
+
+## This Could Have Been Avoided
+
+All the serious development teams understand the necessity of having an agreement for how to work.