cloud architect & rv'er

My RV bedroom TV install post looks different from everything else on this blog. It has numbered build steps, a parts list on graph paper, and sticky notes. I worked through it with Claude Code, and the way it fit that styling into this site turned out to be worth a post of its own. [Read More]

Our new Entegra Odyssey 30Z came with a TV up front, but the bedroom had nothing but a blank wall. It was a well-prepared blank wall, though. So this weekend I fixed that. [Read More]

Happy Halloween from Paisley! Paisley and her haunted portrait gallery. This photo is from her most recent PetSmart day camp session. The portraits behind her were edited into spooky, old-timey versions of Paisley. [Read More]

I’ve written a couple of posts recently about rebuilding this site’s guts — the infrastructure, the deploy pipeline, the content cleanup. This one’s different: it’s a tutorial on the part I skipped over each time — how Hugo, and specifically the theme this site runs, actually turns a folder of markdown files into the page you’re reading right now. [Read More]

This site has quietly been running on old, migrated-from-a-CMS bones for a while: a theme wired up as a bit of a Frankenstein setup, some old posts stuck in a format nobody would choose on purpose, and a hosting setup that worked but that I hadn’t looked hard at in years. [Read More]