Stories and experiences of a first time dad, twice, all while trying to get to the finish line.
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Fresh Paint: Updating my blog platform to Hugo on AWS S3 and Cloudfront
After a few years living on Wordpress, it’s time to take some more control over my blog platform. Moving to my own set up with Hugo and AWS wasn’t incredibly easy, but honestly afer a few quick steps, I mostly had it working again. Between S3, Cloudfront, and a little scripting duck tape, I am running my own stack for this blog which will scale better, be far easier to maintain, and hopefully will result in far less Russian spam to my email.
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How to support India during the worst we've seen with COVID so far
Much of India is currently suffering through an intense uptick in COVID cases and hospitalizations right now. As cases rise, hospitals are struggling with providing essential services for those affected. Oxygen is in short supply and they can use our help to get necessary supplies like Oxygen canisters, concentrators, and PPE. As things relatively improve in the US with vaccination rates climbing (please, go get vaccinated if you haven’t yet), I wanted to find some ways to offer my support and assistance.
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Moving in the midst of the pandemic
Surviving the pandemic with three kids under five and two fairly demanding jobs wasn’t enough for us. We needed to move too, in the middle of what would be a year-long pandemic by the time we moved as well as the height of the housing crunch. But it was absolutely time to move on from our home for the last ten years and into something that worked better for the way our lives had evolved.
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