Interesting: Developing in Ubuntu through VS Code, running in WSL2
Posted on July 18, 2020Late last month, I said I’d be looking into WSL, or the Windows Subsystem for Linux, which is still a work in progress and available for Windows 10. If you’re not familiar with WSL, it’s an easy way…
Read full postThree weeks in, a $68 PC storage upgrade: SATA SSD vs. M.2 NVMe drives
Posted on July 17, 2020I dropped $68 on this Western Digital 250 GB M.2 NVMe drive from Amazon this week and it arrived today. When I built my PC last month, I wanted to keep the budget low, so I put a less expensive 50…
Read full postAdded to the to-do list: A Jamstack blog commenting system
Posted on July 10, 2020I've gotten away from posting here or continuing my path towards learning Gatsby for blog publishing of late, mainly because of other work, my Chromebook blogging and prepping for my fall JavaScript…
Read full postShould everyone build their own PC at least once?
Posted on June 28, 2020I'm going to answer my own question with a caveat. I think just about everyone should build their own PC at least once in their lifetime. By "just about everyone", I mean everyone who needs a desktop…
Read full postThe Great Gatsby vs Hugo for static site generation
Posted on June 18, 2020Well that didn't take long. I've been thinking about the tools that power this site since my last post because I couldn't insert or embed my demo JavaScript app in it. After doing a good week's worth…
Read full postGetting JavaScript-y with APIs, even if it's hard to secure the keys
Posted on June 06, 2020School's out for summer! My spring semster ended about a month ago in a whimper as the pandemic hit smack dab in the middle of March. The college quickly shifted to online learning. My particular…
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