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How I Go Again

I am upgrading my Hugo-based blog from v0.15 to v0.48 (extended)! Quite a mad leap. Update: As it turns out, extended won’t run on my (or any) shared hosting provider, and I am still building my site on my shared host. I know, that’s not cool anymore, but updating my deployment pipeline would require more time than I have. My Architecture Local is Mac I am using a Mac for this process.

September 4, 2018 Read
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My Git Commit Hooks

I quite envy a nice commit message. The Rails project has rules about commit messages that are tops. This is a great example from a great developer I know, which got merged into core. So now on my own projects I have cribbed, tweaked, and automated a tiny bit of of that sweet, sweet commit message honey. Naming your branch Step 1 I name my branches with a prefix that is one of: “hotfix”, “bug”, “feature”, or “candy”.

September 11, 2015 Read
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How I Go

I am relaunching my blog! I have decided to use Hugo after much internal debate, and strong lobbying from all the sleazy corporate bag-men that are constantly trying to bribe me with buzz words . I will always Ruby and use it every day, but for my blog I gotta go. So easy, static and fast! As my first post I will document how I made this work. My Architecture Local is Mac My workhorse is my heavily modified (via cover stickers) Macbook Pro.

August 31, 2015 Read