Wormhole Mapping Tool Dilemmas
Thought all was well I haven’t played EvE in quite some time. When I was a bit more active I had a wormhole mapping tool to use in game, and late last year, ...
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2024
Finding Time with Shifting Priorities
When I started this blog, I had just gotten married and we lived in a rented apartment in Brooklyn.
Jekyll and Minimal Mistakes on Debian (12) Bookworm
Short Evaluation on What Framework to Use for this Blog
Custom Domain for Github Pages Hosted Blog
Using Github Pages as CI/CD, and using my custom subdomain
First(!) 2024 Post, and Loose Goals for the Year
Life and workflow changes lead to delays Last time I posted was about a year ago. Not my intention to leave this blog, or other projects “abandoned”.
2023
To Pandas, or not to Pandas
Research on Pandas I’ve created a branch on my market_hub_puller:DataFrame-Only which leverages the pandas library, and uses the data structure native to pan...
2022
To Add Comments, or Migrate from Jekyll to Something New
I want comments
SQL, Pandas, or Python Dictionary for Analyzing Data
I’ve done a review of the market_hub_puller repo that is my current project. It seems that I’ve done a slight overhaul on how to fetch said data, and have le...
Time to Sleuth! –or– What’s that folder about?!
New Overhaul Folder Forgotten
Fixing Tag Labels Redirect
Fixing things that hadn’t worked
Spelling in VIM
After writing yesterday’s post, I realized that I had spelled a couple of things wrong. More than a couple of things wrong. So looked into spell checking in ...
And so the new adventure begins… Again
It’s been a while again. There have been many changes since my last post.
To Clean Up a Project Mess, Will Need to Plan
Today’s post will be a bit short.
Upgrading to Jekyll 4 and overhauling Theme
I’m motivated. So I decided to upgrade to Jekyll 4 last night. Fortunately the Jekyll upgrade was actually not that difficult. I decided to keep being on Jek...
RVM and Jekyll install for Jenkins
With setting up CI/CD, I wanted to make sure that I covered the actual steps I took instead of going off on a tangent. Though, much was learned when going of...
Adding and Working with a Jenkins Multibranch Pipeline
Now comes the bit part. Many bits and bobs, but will try to capture all the steps required to install Jenkins as well as setup a repo together with the key l...
Over the Hill and Through the CI/CD woods for Jekyll
It’s been quite an effort, but I believe I’ve done it!
MVP, CI/CD, and Data… oh my!
Fell into a bit of a slump come around the holidays, and also Q1. Work and other RL obligations has kept me “entertained”, to put it nicely. Lets leave it at...
2021
API pulling market data from Eve Online High Sec Market Hubs
So, As you may or may not have inferred from the link on the website’s landing page, I dabble in playing Eve Online. It’s a Spaceship MMO, and for me, it is ...
NGINX snafu linked to letsencrypt?
Clearly I have things running, given that the previous, and this current, post are both up and running.
It’s been a while….
A lot has happened since my last post.
2018
Did the Belay Class Today at the Climbing Gym!
I’m super excited about this.
Deploying React, Angular apps, as well as WordPress on a VM
Before starting, I’d like to provide some background. My last post on contributing to Open Source was made before actually writing a single line of code towa...
2017
Open Source Apprenticeship Contribution - Part 1
I’ve started the last module of my Bloc experience. So far so good. I’ve learned a lot, however it’s expected as there is a lot of ground to cover.
Linux and Open Source Alignment and Contribution Goals
I’ve started to write, but I don’t have a title for this post yet.
Distro-stopping a Distro-hopper
To the uninitiated, a distro-hopper is someone who hops from Linux distribution to Linux distribution, trying out the different flavors that this marvelous O...
2016
Thoughts on GitHub pages and analytics tags OR a multi-fold teaser for other future posts!
This past Christmas weekend, I set up my first portfolio website, it’s up and running for the world to see! I also have www.xavierjortiz.com pointing at it c...
My experience in a (30+ weekly commitment) Coding Boot camp.
Let me start from the beginning of being thwarted towards being part of the U.S. work force.
My very first blog post. FINALLY!!!! :D
So, it’s finally here. Alright, take a breath.