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Isaac Tait

Isaac Tait

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Stay at home dad, coder, alpinist, skier, angler, cyclist, trail-runner, USMC combat vet, and a mediocre vegan chef.

Utilizing SendGrid SMTP relay to setup a Discourse server

Aug 17, 20224 min read

Last week I started reading a new book titled "Starship For Sale" by M.R. Forbes. I thought it would be a fun project to build a fan site around the...

Utilizing SendGrid SMTP relay to setup a Discourse server

Giscus and NextJS - a 21st century solution for OS comments

Jul 19, 20222 min read

I have been searching high and low for a comment solution for my latest site I Love To Fish. I had tried Disqus but I really did not want to pay $11 a...

Giscus and NextJS - a 21st century solution for OS comments

Coding slump

Jul 17, 20223 min read

I have been in a bit of a coding slump lately. I have had them before but they lasted a week or so at the most, this one is different though as it has...

Coding slump

Three years of web development

Mar 13, 20222 min read

Yesterday (March 12th) marked my three year anniversary as a web developer. I started out with courses on Codecademy and freeCodeCamp(); and over the...

Three years of web development

Pihole DNS on Unifi

Dec 25, 20213 min read

There is quite a lot of information out there on how to setup a whole home Ad Blocker with Unifi and PiHole. So, I will not attempt to rewrite those...

Pihole DNS on Unifi

Big changes underway

Oct 10, 20212 min read

If you were to take a look at my GitHub contributions graph, the last few weeks have been pretty sparse. Well I have not fallen out of love with...

Big changes underway