About
I’m Leon, and This day’s portion is my personal blog. There’s also a website for the professional me.
I write about lots of subjects – mainly designing and building things online, but also politics, books, music and other cultural stuff, and where these crossover.

Me in Ipswich County Library.
About this site
This site is built using a static site generator called Jekyll. Traditional static sites (as opposed to single page applications) do all the heavy lifting of building web pages before a person visits them. This means they’re fast and stable as they’re served “as is” and complete.
You can browse the code on Github. I used to have a comments system and displayed webmentions – if you’re interested in setting these up on your site the code is still there.
This day’s portion?
Ambitious (tone – declamatory):
Behold, I am about to rain bread from heaven for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day’s portion every day.
– Exodus 16:4
And personal, referential (also declamatory):
Little boys are taking over: they mumble through the grass. They are not fit to be in the company of vulperines and wolverines. Too many heads knocking about. Service! This day’s portion.
– Service, The Fall.
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