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_layouts/post.html

@@ -14,9 +14,6 @@ layout: default
         {{ page.title | escape }}
       </h3>
     </div>
-    <!-- <div class="blog-post__header__description">
-      <span>{{page.description}}</span>
-    </div> -->
     <div class="blog-post__header__meta">
       <span>
         <time
@@ -36,14 +33,18 @@ layout: default
         <time>
       </span>
     </div>
-
     {% if page.image %}
       <img
         class="blog-post__header__image"
-      alt="{{ page.description | escape }} | Developer Blog How To"
+        alt="{{page.image-alt | page.description | escape }}"
         title="{{page.description | escape}}"
         src="../assets/images/{{page.image}}.jpg"
       />
+    {% if page.image-alt %} 
+    <p class="blog-post__header__image-caption">
+      {{ page.image-alt }}
+    </p>
+    {% endif %}
     {% if page.image-attrib %} {% if page.image-attrib-url %}
       <p class="blog-post__header__image-caption">
       <a href="{{ page.image-attrib-url }}" targe="_blank"
@@ -52,9 +53,12 @@ layout: default
     </p>
     {% else %}
     <p class="blog-post__header__image-caption">
-      Image &copy; {{ page.image-attrib }}
+      Photo &copy; {{ page.image-attrib }}
     </p>
-    {% endif %} {% endif %} {% endif %}
+    {% endif %} {% endif %}
+    
+
+    {% endif %}
   </header>
 
   <div class="blog-post__content e-content" itemprop="articleBody">

_posts/2015-11-14-devcon-summit-2015.md

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 title: WebSAFE - DevCon Summit 2015
 permalink: /:title/
 image: devcon-summit-2015
+image-alt: DevCon Summit 2015 poster and the event sponsors
 description: "Presented WebSAFE as a scalable tool for disaster mitigation in the Web Development Special Track"
 category: talks
 ---

_posts/2023-05-27-coven-of-wisdom-amsterdam-2023.md

@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 title: "Introduction to Astro - Coven of Wisdom Amsterdam 2023"
 permalink: /:title/
 image: astro-amsterdam-2023
+image-attrib: Lee Ravenberg
+image-alt: Ayo Ayco, presenting Astro app creation tool in front of a crowd
 description: "Fun squeezing awesome Astro stuff into a tiny meetup talk"
 category: talks
 ---

_posts/2023-05-28-no-tracking-on-my-sites.md

@@ -1,7 +1,10 @@
 ---
-published: true
 title: "Why I Stopped Tracking Traffic on My Personal Sites"
-permalink: /no-tracking/
+permalink: /:title
+image: bliss
+image-attrib: Ayo Ayco
+image-attrib-url: https://metapixl.com/p/ayo/566394313649618586
+image-alt: An empty bench in front of a calm river on a sunny day
 description: "I was never happy about being tracked, why should I do that to others?"
 category: personal
 ---
@@ -10,10 +13,11 @@ Back in 2021, I deleted my Facebook account that had thousands of connections, a
 
 Some time before that, I deleted an older Twitter account with hundreds of followers to create a [new one](https://twitter.com/ayoayco) that I wanted to be more focused.
 
+I've always been in a love-hate relationship with the online presence game... but maybe that's another story.
+
 It's quite liberating, but apparently those were just the beginning of my "cutting ties" with big tech.<!--more-->
 
- I deleted all the scripts on my personal sites that use cookies to track visitors.
-<!--more-->
+Recently I deleted all the scripts on my personal sites that use cookies to track visitors.
 
 ## The Social Media Business Model
 
@@ -29,6 +33,14 @@ Somebody profited from this and it has never been better for people ever since.
 
 Well that was a bit heavy for a blog about removing analytics ain't it?
 
-In a [recent commit](https://github.com/ayoayco/blog/commit/6e0b664a4fd51c3d9a7bbcb8f7b04c5967ff51c5) to this blog's code, I removed all tracking scripts -- 
+In a [recent commit](https://github.com/ayoayco/blog/commit/6e0b664a4fd51c3d9a7bbcb8f7b04c5967ff51c5) to this blog's code, I removed all tracking scripts.
 
- in this blog I want to write a bit about why I've
+I never even checked Analytics anyway.
+
+It feels good to be free from numbers that measure my social performance... and I don't really intend to be be successful in the online influencer game.
+
+Practically, I find that if you play in that game you end up just creating content that pleases the majority of people; and somehow I doubt that's a good indication that you are doing a good job. 🤣
+
+To cut the long story short, I was never really motivated by that and I see there's more negative impact.
+
+So now I can just focus on putting out more content and "logging" my life's journey on the web... Let's go back to the roots of web logging.