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Configuring AWS Lightsail and NameCheap for your personal blog
This is a log of what I had to do to figure this goofy tasks out. After the 4 hours it took me to track down the right resources, I realized that I should go to the nearest platform dev at my current company and give him a hug. Goal – get a nice looking…
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Questions from my life
Paul Graham’s essay on “Great Work” has a footnote that reads It might be a good exercise to try writing down a list of questions you wondered about in your youth. You might find you’re now in a position to do something about some of them. http://www.paulgraham.com/greatwork.html#f19n I read the footnote and immediately knew I…
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Why I didn’t pursue AI
This is quite an inane reason but I hate matrices and matrix operations. I loathe linear algebra. If you so much as whisper the word eigenvector or eigenvalue I may have to never speak to you again. I never really believed in the school grade idea of “when will I ever use [X] topic?” With…
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Website is back and so is the blog
Personal site back up and running. Originally started in 2019, I shut this site down in 2021 to stop paying AWS fees. We are back and up indefinitely. You’re welcome Andy Jassy.
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Building a new site
I’m starting to build a new site using the community WordPress theme Twenty TwentyFour. Previously I used simpler templates which I have since deleted in order to save money on cloud hosting costs. In retrospect, I should have backed them up instead of having to start over. This theme is nice though. It offers very…