blog startup series

When I started this project I knew I was going to need some photography. But, I was not quite sure what to do at first nor was it all that important to get the blog off the ground. So, I kicked this off with nothing but screenshots. Now that…

Until this point in time, I was falling back on the GitLab Pages domain. There is nothing wrong with this domain. It was as personal as my GitLab username. However, it was missing a personalization aspect that I want. So why not buy a domain and use…

Once the new theme was deployed out to GitLab pages. I began scrolling through it, thinking how painful it is to read through this. It is difficult to determine where one post ends and the next begins. It just feels like a big blob of text. What do…

Scratch that, this theme is REALLY UGLY right now. You may ask, "Why would you ever do this?". Which is a fair question. Recall in my earlier post about a theme, where this theme is going to be approached with an agile mindset? Then how…

Before getting started with Hexo and poking around at the existing Hexo theme. You could have walked up to me and proposed "Tell me what a *.ejs file is and I will give you a million dollars.". I would have not become a millionaire. I had no clue…

Until now this blog has been relying on the default Hexo landscape theme. It is time for that to change. While one could go to the library of Hexo themes and choose one off the shelf. But, where is the fun in that? Also, that would shorten this blog…

Rather than establish an understanding of CI/CD (continuous integration / continuous deployment). In this post, I would rather skip over that and talk about this specific example. There is a benefit in understanding the why, however, sometimes we…

Before we dig into the "how" of getting this project set up. I think it is important to understand the "why" we use source control. For those who are solo developers on side projects, source control may seem like a terrible burden. First, you have to…

Before digging into how to build this small environment to host our site. We must first cover some of the terminologies that will be seen in the Azure Portal and this post. Subscription: A folder-like construct to create a logical separation of…

Once I had the Hexo CLI installed and the shell of a default Hexo of a project. The next question was "What do I do with this thing?". Seemingly easy question to answer, right? You check it in and let it die like every other side project that was…

When thinking about this new learning adventure. I did not know what shape this would take. I had recently learned that static site generators existed, specifically Jekyll. I began down the path of Jekyll. Reading through some of the documentation…

This is the first post, the first step, on a new adventure. The thought behind starting on this journey is to be exposed to more (different) technologies. To take a look at this world from another angle. Professionally, I have worked on dozens of…