Stay at home dad, coder, alpinist, skier, angler, cyclist, trail-runner, USMC combat vet, and a mediocre vegan chef.
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 book series. While I was designing the site I wanted to add a forum so that other fans of the book se...
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 month. So, I kept looking. Then one day I came across utterances. I was intrigued could there actua...
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 lasted over a month. Truth be told I have been a little distracted with some epic fishing, kayaking...
Yesterday (March 12th) marked my three year anniversary as a web developer. I started out with courses on Codecademy and freeCodeCamp(); and over the years I have learned quite a bit. It has been a fun journey and a hobby that got me through the pand...
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 tutorials. Rather I will focus on a few sticky points that I encountered and how I resolved them. Fo...
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 coding, rather I moved from southern California to New England. Three weeks ago my family and I packed u...
I have recently fallen in love with C++. So much so that I have decided to switch gears from a web developer to focus solely on C++. I am still keeping my other Jamstack projects current. However, instead of spending the lion's share of my time debug...
Last week I read this article about building a minimalist desk setup. It got me thinking about my desk, which is currently slotted between the sliding window to our back porch (read: great views and excellent lighting {during the day}) and the enter...
I found this tutorial on YouTube that got me pointed in the right direction, but there were still a few unanswered questions not addressed by the tutorial. Namely how to get Algolia up and running on a Gatsby site deployed with Netlify. I ended up n...
