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A wander in the Urban Barrens

For something to do, and to help the baby nap we went for a drive. The idea was to head to a path around town, maybe Hemlock Ravines, but when we got there the small parking lot was packed. We didn't feel like being around so many people so we …

Installing Pelican for the first time again

I already did this for this page and my company, but I'm moving our family archive too.

Step One Set Up the Python environment

First, set up your environment, I'm using pipenv install , you may be doing something else.

Step two, Install Pelican and plugins

Then install pelican and the …

Bluejays in the backyard

There was a bluejay in the background and they were a pain to get a picture of. These are the only ones that kind of turned out.

Bluejay through the bushes.

How I backup my WSL2 VM

I like the "idea" of Unix and the derivatives Linux and FreeBSD in particular. However, most the applications that I need to actually get work done rely on Windows.

So, when I build personal proejcts I like to build them with FreeBSD or a flavour of Linux (Like with TrueNAS …

I'm updating weekly

For a while I was trying to update daily, but I'm thinking it is time to think about why that is, and instead, update at most weekly. That means if you are following along with the RSS feed, then there may be weeks that you end up with a bunch …

Just do what though?

The times that I can't think of ways to be creative I end up spending time on workflow or maybe redesigning something that is working realitvely fine, or maybe it is researching tech that I would need if the ideas that I want to develop caught hold.

A walk in the woods

If this was …

Today's test for gallery

It took some tweaking, mostly because I'm not very careful at the start when I'm playing with things like this, but I have it working.

At the bottom you will see a gallery of a selection of "test" images that I have put in a folder that is in my …

Testing my git

With my new site arctiecture , I didn't like updating git everytime I created a new output, so I added the "output" folder in .gitignore.

And it doesn't work

I will have to figure out how this works, but from everything I know about git, which isn't a lot, is that …

I have stopped using wordpress

For this site only, for now

For a little background, I haven't had a lot of fun with wordpress for my personal homepage for a while. Its not that wordpress is a bad piece of software, or that the company behind it are bad. Rather, this homepage is my hobby …