Isaac Tait
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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.

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 years I have learned quite a bit. It has been a fun journey and a hobby that got me through the pand...

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 tutorials. Rather I will focus on a few sticky points that I encountered and how I resolved them. Fo...

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 coding, rather I moved from southern California to New England. Three weeks ago my family and I packed u...

Big changes underway

Discovering C++

Aug 25, 20213 min read

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...

Discovering C++

Thoughts on my WFH setup

May 31, 20212 min read

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...

Thoughts on my WFH setup

Enabling site-wide search functionality for my Gatsby site deployed with Netlify using Algolia

Mar 11, 20215 min read

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...

Enabling site-wide search functionality for my Gatsby site deployed with Netlify using Algolia