cloud architect & rv'er

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]

Today is A/C Day 2023. This is an annual ritual. This is the 1st day this year where we have had to begin using our air conditioner. I need to begin tracking when we stop using the A/C. [Read More]

This is my first post testing out the new Hugo site generator. Tranistioning from Drupal . Unfortunately, this may not be great for any remaining SEO.