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  • Fri, Jan 1st, 2021 2 min Read

    Finding My Self 

    👨🏽‍💻 Personal
  • Fri, Nov 6th, 2020 1 min Read

    Listening: Positions by Ariana Grande 🎶 

    🎧 Music
  • Thu, Nov 5th, 2020 1 min Read

    Jimmy Dore: ‘Nobody Who Voted for the Iraq War Should Become the President of the United States’ 

    Joe Biden might win, but the American people have lost yet again

    👨🏽‍💻 Personal
  • Mon, Oct 26th, 2020 1 min Read

    Listening: Featuring Ty Dolla $ign by Ty Dolla $ign 🎶 

    🎧 Music
  • Tue, Oct 13th, 2020 1 min Read

    Today’s Apple Event 

    📱 Technology
  • Sat, Oct 3rd, 2020 2 min Read

    On Death 

    👨🏽‍💻 Personal
  • Thu, Sep 17th, 2020 1 min Read

    The Mandalorian Season 2 Official Trailer 

    👽 Star Wars
  • Sat, Aug 22nd, 2020 1 min Read

    Listening: Djesse Vol. 3 by Jacob Collier 🎶 

    🎧 Music
  • Fri, Aug 7th, 2020 1 min Read

    Listening: JAGUAR by Victoria Monét 🎶 

    🎧 Music
  • Tue, Jul 28th, 2020 2 min Read

    Show Off Your Letterboxd Film Diary with Eleventy 

    We’ll use an Eleventy data file and an NPM package to parse the Letterboxd RSS feed into JSON

    💻 Code
  • Fri, Jul 10th, 2020 2 min Read

    How I Made My Badass ‘Listening To’ Section 

    We’ll use the Last.fm API and Eleventy to make it happen

    💻 Code
  • Tue, Jul 7th, 2020 2 min Read

    A Fresh Start 

    👨🏽‍💻 Personal
  • Thu, Jan 16th, 2020 2 min Read

    Songs I’m Jammin’ to Right Now 

    🎧 Music
  • Wed, Jan 15th, 2020 1 min Read

    I Might Have a Bit of a Keyboard Problem 

    My new keyboard from Keychron is badass

    🕹 Geekery
  • Thu, Dec 26th, 2019 1 min Read

    My Favorite ‘Star Wars’ Movies 

    👽 Star Wars
  • Mon, Sep 9th, 2019 1 min Read

    Eighth Grade  4/5 stars

    🎬 Film
  • Fri, Apr 12th, 2019 2 min Read

    A Year with the Sony a7 III 

    🕹 Geekery
  • Thu, Mar 14th, 2019 2 min Read

    Depression 

    👨🏽‍💻 Personal
  • Mon, Jan 21st, 2019 2 min Read

    The Cost of a Centralized Web 

    📱 Technology
  • Wed, Jan 2nd, 2019 1 min Read

    Roma  5/5 stars

    Alfonso Cuarón delivers an outstanding film about life, love, and loss

    🎬 Film
  • Mon, Dec 31st, 2018 5 min Read

    2018: Year in Review 

    Highlights of the past year

    👨🏽‍💻 Personal
  • Wed, Dec 26th, 2018 2 min Read

    Aquaman  2/5 stars

    Neither Jason Mamoa’s charisma nor amazing special effects can mask this film’s poorly written dialogue

    🎬 Film
  • Mon, Dec 17th, 2018 2 min Read

    Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse  5/5 stars

    Thrilling and reference-filled, this film is equal parts substance and fun

    🎬 Film
  • Mon, Nov 5th, 2018 4 min Read

    My Geek Life 

    The geekery… it’s always been there

    🕹 Geekery
  • Tue, Oct 16th, 2018 1 min Read

    Scheduled Posts in Jekyll with Zapier 

    Turned out to be a lot less difficult than anticipated

    💻 Code
  • Mon, Oct 1st, 2018 1 min Read

    Using forloop in Jekyll for Placing Ads 

    A quick look at how I made ads less obtrusive for smaller screens

    💻 Code
  • Mon, Sep 24th, 2018 1 min Read

    Fix Broken Images from Siteleaf 

    Images weren’t working for me, but I finally figured out what was wrong

    💻 Code
  • Sun, Dec 31st, 2017 5 min Read

    2017: Year in Review 

    Highlights from the year and what’s in store for the next one

    👨🏽‍💻 Personal
  • Fri, Dec 15th, 2017 2 min Read

    Star Wars: The Last Jedi  5/5 stars

    The latest of the Star Wars saga films is a fresh, new, and exciting chapter of my favorite franchise

    👽 Star Wars
  • Thu, Nov 9th, 2017 2 min Read

    Exclude Posts From RSS in Jekyll 

    Two different solutions depending on your circumstance

    💻 Code
  • Tue, Nov 7th, 2017 2 min Read

    Remove Table of Contents From a Jekyll RSS Feed 

    How is this not a post on the internet yet?

    💻 Code
  • Mon, Mar 20th, 2017 3 min Read

    Self-Doubt and My Interview With Shopify 

    👨🏽‍💻 Personal
  • Tue, Jan 17th, 2017 1 min Read

    Speeding Up Your Jekyll Site on Heroku 

    Cache the hell out of all the things

    💻 Code
  • Sat, Dec 31st, 2016 4 min Read

    2016: Year in Review 

    Another year came and went, here are some highlights

    👨🏽‍💻 Personal
  • Fri, Dec 16th, 2016 1 min Read

    Rogue One: A Star Wars Story  3.5/5 stars

    The first of the non-saga Star Wars movies has finally come out, and I really liked it

    👽 Star Wars
  • Tue, Dec 13th, 2016 2 min Read

    Questions to Ask in Interviews 

    💼 Work
  • Tue, Nov 15th, 2016 1 min Read

    Switching Back to Kramdown 

    Quick update on my markdown woes

    💻 Code
  • Thu, Aug 25th, 2016 6 min Read

    On Design Tests 

    Should you take them?

    💼 Work
  • Thu, Jan 7th, 2016 3 min Read

    2015: Year in Review 

    The year came and went, and as usual, here’s my annual year in review

    👨🏽‍💻 Personal
  • Tue, Dec 1st, 2015 1 min Read

    Switching to Redcarpet 

    💻 Code
  • Fri, Jul 31st, 2015 2 min Read

    Heroku Redirects with rack-rewrite 

    Moved this blog to Heroku, now what?

    💻 Code
  • Mon, Jun 29th, 2015 3 min Read

    Hosting a Jekyll Site on Heroku 

    Avoid pulling your hair out like I did

    💻 Code
  • Wed, Feb 11th, 2015 3 min Read

    2014: Year in Review 

    Another year has come and gone

    👨🏽‍💻 Personal
  • Wed, Jan 1st, 2014 2 min Read

    2013: Year in Review 

    👨🏽‍💻 Personal

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  • 🕹 Geekery3
  • 🎧 Music5
  • 👨🏽‍💻 Personal12
  • 👽 Star Wars4
  • 📱 Technology2
  • 💼 Work2

Browse by Series

  • Hacking Jekyll7
  • Jekyll with Heroku3
  • Learn Eleventy2
  • Year in Review6

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