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Deco Gear 39 Curved Ultrawide Gaming Monitor

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Deco Gear Curved Ultrawide Gaming Monitor

Keter Kentwood 50 Gallon Resin Deck Box

Nitecore Headlamp

Pines Image Gallery With Hugo

A super simple alpinjs image gallery

The first place I used this is on the recipe page about my mom’s family recipe cookbook

Ironcove Solutions Orchestration Engine

Workforce Onboarding: A Case Study of Ironcove Solutions’ Orchestration Engine

I was hired by Ironcove Solutions to lead product development for a new application they were developing called the Orchestration Engine, an application designed to streamline workforce onboarding processes. We collaborated closely with the team from Ironcove Solutions to bring their vision to life.

Mom's Family Recipes Cookbook

Be Inspired
Be Inspired

Photos of all the pages

The Ryder Theme for Hugo

In honor of this old guy
In honor of this old guy

Introducing the Ryder theme, a theme for the hugo static website generator. This is an open-source Hugo theme boasting Tailwind CSS, FontAwesome integration, and customizable features. Perfect for beginners and seasoned developers alike, kickstart your website with this versatile theme.

Styling a RSS feed With XSL

A styled RSS feed makes your site more usable

When you put a link to your rss / atom feed on your website it is a link to a raw xml file designed for feed readers such as feedly to import them and provide the reader with all their internet in one place.

Tunnel Localhost Server Through Cloudflare

A tunnel to your desktop

This is something I have done in the past and it usually involved pretty in-depth knowledge of the shell and networking, but now there is a free service that makes it oh-so-easy to spin up a tunnel with a public human readable domain name for temporary viewing of your local network development environment on the internet.

Pick a Squares Game

I created a pick-a-squares game template, aka the Super Bowl squares. It is still a work in progress, but I hope to have it snazzy in time for next year. Take a look at the template.

Project Goals

  • Ability to enter people into squares
  • Generate random score rows with animated flourish
  • Presentation mode for big screen action with controller to enter periodic scores
  • Calculate payouts based on price of a square

Project Timeline

  • Launch in time for SB LIX

Pick-a-Square Game - Basic Grid

Hugo Snippets

Get the first of something in a collection

For example the first jpg image in the current directory starting with the word feature.

Arts-Link.com

https://www.arts-link.com is the first domain I ever purchased. I believe it was around 2001. It has been various different websites throughout the years, including not a web-site at all. In this rendition it is an organization which is set up to support artists in their technical needs, to free them from the discratction of such things as self-promotion and websites.

Github Action to Create New Content in Hugo

This is what it looks like
This is what it looks like

I use Hugo a lot for my web development work, and I think it is pretty great. The one problem with it for many non-technical people I work with is that there is no CMS feature, they want a website administration page where they can do the usual.

Hugo Helpers

Here are some useful partials I use in this theme.

layouts/_default/_markup/render-image.html

This replaces the default markup template for rendering an image when the markdown code ![Alt Text](/path/to/img.jpg) is used. It calls another partial you have to add to your theme or layout directory in your site called ImageConverter.

Tarragon Beets Salad

With some green tomatoes on top
With some green tomatoes on top

This was an attempt to copy a salad from Bristol Farms. I ended up modifying it quite a bit from the initial ingredients.

The Ancien Régime and the Revolution

10 Ft. Ganja Plant

I played 10 Ft. Ganja Plant 14 times on spotify this month. Spotify Artist Page

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10 Ft. Ganja Plant

Genres

east coast reggae | reggae | reggae rock

2Pac

I played 2Pac 4 times on spotify this month. Spotify Artist Page

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2Pac

Genres

g funk | gangster rap | hip hop | rap | west coast rap

A Tribe Called Quest

Ahmad Jamal

I played Ahmad Jamal 200 times on spotify this month. Spotify Artist Page

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Ahmad Jamal

Genres

bebop | cool jazz | jazz | jazz piano

Ahmad Jamal Trio

I played Ahmad Jamal Trio 32 times on spotify this month. Spotify Artist Page

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Ahmad Jamal Trio

Genres

bebop | jazz | jazz trio