technology

Setting up a new development machine

5/25/2021

What an exciting past couple of days. A brand new development machine was delivered to the doorstep after a 3-week wait for it to be built. The new toy is a Dell XPS 15, complete with 32 Gb of RAM, an Intel i7, and Windows 10 Pro. While this is not…

technology - career - career change

Making the switch - Part 3

4/17/2021

This is a continuation of a blog post series to talk about my path from mechanical engineering to software engineering. If you have not already done so, check out out part one and part two. I do not believe there is a perfect execution of a plan…

technology - career - career change

Making the switch - Part 2

4/13/2021

As we closed out part one of this series, I was working as a manufacturing engineer full time. Then, in the evenings going to night classes for a Master's degree in computer science. Before too long, I felt as though I was unable to make the impact…

technology - career - career change

Making the switch - Part 1

4/10/2021

I had recently graduated with Bachelors's degree in Mechanical Engineering and Physics. I was working as a Manufacturing Engineer at an organization that engineered, machined then assembled safety equipment for non-automotive applications. There was…

blog startup series

Looking for Stock Photography

3/17/2021

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…

technology - learning - teaching

Lessons Learned from Teaching a 6-year-old

2/26/2021

How did I learn these lessons? I am certain that I am not unique in this aspect of life where I have a 6-year-old family member that is interested in video games. This person just so happens to be my nephew. One afternoon we were together the younger…

blog startup series

Setting Up A Domain

2/19/2021

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…

theory - patterns

Introduction: Partial Views

2/7/2021

As we saw in earlier posts, Hexo supports the idea of partial views. For a reminder here is an example of a partial view: <head> <meta charset="utf-8"/> <title><%= config.title %></title> </head> Then we can reference the above partial view…

blog startup series - shrebv

Simple Styling

2/6/2021

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…

blog startup series - shrebv

Now things are UGLY

2/5/2021

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…

blog startup series - hexo - javascript

What is an EJS file

2/4/2021

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…

blog startup series - shrebv

Things Are About To Get Ugly

1/28/2021

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…

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