Musings, “how to”-s, and other longer-form writing
As a recent grad trying to find a job, any information I can get to help my job search is valuable. By tracking site traffic, I can try to measure whether recruiters are getting past my resume.
(30 Sep, 2020 - 5 min)
To combat spam there are three methods that email uses nowadays for verification. These measures prevent spammers from impersonating you and getting you in trouble (such as ending up on a blocklist). Let’s look at what they are and how to safely implement them.
(2 Jul, 2020 - 8 min)
I haven’t posted here much in this year, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been doing things. Here’s what’s gone up so far this year:
(30 Jun, 2020 - 2 min)
Schema.org is a semantic, structured way to write metadata, and also part of how Google understands your site’s content.
(19 Apr, 2020 - 4 min)
people.rit.edu is an RIT web server students, faculty, and staff can upload files and simple websites to.
(27 Mar, 2020 - 5 min)
When I moved to Hugo, one of the main goals was the generated site would be compatible with most media. This includes blog posts being printable and accessible.
(21 Nov, 2019 - 3 min)
My boss’s boss encouraged me to bring a Bluetooth keyboard on my flights this summer so I could write while in the air. Suprisingly it’s possible to do this on Android using plain Git.
(24 Oct, 2019 - 4 min)
This summer I converted my blog to use Hugo, a static site generator, and GitLab Pages for a simple, lightning-fast, and secure writing experience.
(24 Oct, 2019 - 3 min)
This tutorial will walk through retroactively adding Webpack & Babel to a Node.js project. The first step in changing your dependency management is to inventory the packages you’re using. For the project I’m going to do this on, the objective is to migrate away from using CDNs and bundle them instead. This is also a good time to implement Content Security Policy for additional security, since by inventorying you will know what scripts are being loaded.
(27 Feb, 2019 - 5 min)
Save on the hassle of testing and deploying code & make GitLab do it for you! In this tutorial we’re going to set up a Staging environment as well, and this requires a little prep work. Create a staging branch in your Git repo based on master, if you don’t have one. If you already use dev, development, or another name, that’s fine, just replace staging with whichever branch name is appropriate for you.
(27 Feb, 2019 - 5 min)