Resurrecting this Blog for NaNoWriMo
And I Didn't Even Need a White Mage or Phoenix Down!
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November is National Novel Writing Month, and I’m taking a novel1 approach to it (ha, get it? Never mind…)
Although not strictly speaking a novel, since I keep meaning to keep an active, interesting blog going—and keep finding myself too worried about “perfectionism” and what other might think to actually write after the first post or two—I’m making a commitment to writing a post a day, rain or shine.
I have a few ideas for upcoming posts, including old drafts I never finished2, a few micro-projects I’m working on, and probably some general non-tech but still geeky stuff.
Stay tuned. Really, I mean it this time.
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Or apparently not. Just did a quick internet search before posting this, and apparently NaBloPoMo is a thing. A thing that doesn’t roll off the tongue anywhere near as easily as NaNoWriMo. ↩
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And will probably break up into more easily managed chunks. Learning not to go off on tangents is a problem of mine3. ↩
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Case in point. At least I know footnotes can have footnotes now. ↩
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It's been a while
Yeah, I’ve been neglecting this blog for a long time. It’s been a long struggle, but after years of self reflecting and working on myself, I’ve decided to refocus myself; and this blog is a part of that effort.
Welcome to EulerPi
Hello, and welcome to my blog, EulerPi! I’m Charles, a software developer based in New York City. Since I already have a biography available, I’ll spare you the gory details about my life here and instead talk a bit about what I intend to make out of this blog.
Getting Started With Docker
Speak to anybody working in DevOps today, and Docker will be one of the hot topics of interest. At its core, Docker is a modular, layered approach to vitalization that runs on top of a host system’s kernel while keeping guest processes and filesystems separated.
Global Reference Style Links in Jekyll
Now that I’m starting to blog more frequently1, I’ve found myself wanting to link to common websites in my writing often. But looking up exact URLs and page titles (because I’m a perfectionist and I want the link title to match the page title) breaks me out of my writing pace. Having a common library of Markdown reference-style links would speed up my writing, reduce errors, and make me more likely to link where appropriate.
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Though I haven’t kept the post-a-day rate I thought I could at the beginning of the month. ↩
Using Subtitles in HPSTR
So I whipped up this quick modification to Michael Rose’ HPSTR Theme
theme to add subtitles to pages and posts. Today I’m going through a brief
example of Jekyll’s Liquid syntax, and also touching on SCSS.