A surprising amount of effort (and automation) goes into creating this blog and publishing the content. Writing and hosting content required me to find a set of tools that would be portable and flexible. Over the last few years I’ve found an approach that works for me, and this week I thought I’d share some of the details.

It was time for another update to my site’s functionality. I needed to improve the experience for both my visitors and Google. With a few changes to the Hugo template and some tweaks to my approach, I was able to add some new features to make it easier to know when I’m speaking. Introducing an updated speaking calendar!

After a bit of a delay, I’m finally back and posting. More importantly, I’m finally caught up on finishing and releasing all of the posts I was developing before my unexpected surgery.

A few weeks ago I went in for some simple tests as we tried to uncover the root cause of a sudden heartburn. With each test I took, we discovered that my condition was substantially worse than it seemed. I was running out of time quickly, and the doctors had to act fast.

It’s been a year of change and pushing boundaries. With 2022 coming to a close, I can say I’m glad to have had a number of great accomplishments!

Time to add some new usability features to this blog. The site now supports RSS feeds for the various categories and tags, making it easier to keep up with areas of interest!

Ever wished that you could encapsulate some recommendations or best practices for Visual Studio Code and make them available to your team? Then perhaps it’s time you considered creating an extension pack to organize and distribute those recommendations!

I decided it was time to modernize my Hugo-based site just a bit further. This week, I implemented a dark theme in SCSS. I used a simple trick to make it easier for me to update the look-and feel.

It’s now the end of an era for me. After 5 years as a Wintellectual, it was time for a change. There’s nothing like being surrounded by truly brilliant people that inspire you every day. That’s why I’m becoming a Hubber and joining the DevOps FastTrack team.

With programming, things aren’t always what they seem. In fact, sometimes more is less. More specifically, sometimes we get better performance by doing the opposite of what we’ve learned is right. Let’s explore an example and how it applies to cloud-scale systems and big data.