Life Stream
Aug 22, 2018
Me: Want to hear a joke about ghosts? Them: <basically any response, e.g. “sure”, “no”, “meh”, “leave me alone”> Me: That’s the spirit Can’t remember where I heard this one, but it cracks me up.
Aug 16, 2018
I had two separate series of events over the course of almost 2 years involving severe abdominal pain. 4-5 events about 2 years ago, and another 4-5 over the past 2 months. I underwent multiple scans, most of which came back saying my gallbladder was all-clear. Following another type of scan and the worst event to date, gallstones were discovered in my gallbladder. I was quickly scheduled for surgery and had my gallbladder removed. I’m now recovering. The following is a recounting of my experience.
Apr 16, 2018
I just thought it was worth noting that I recently changed jobs. I’ve moved from being a consultant to practicing DevOps at a large Financial company. I’m really looking forward to the opportunities I believe this job will afford me. Anyhow, I generally don’t like talking about work, but as I’m trying to get back into blogging, I thought it was a point in time worth marking.
Mar 28, 2018
Getting Hugo and Lunr playing nice with each other wasn’t too bad, but I had trouble finding a clear walk-through with current versions of the tools. My starting point was Joseph Earl’s post, Search your Hugo static site using lunr.js. That was the most complete guide I could find and got me … 80% of the way there. I think the hiccups I encountered were due to updates to the Lunr code and some breaking changes that happened since he wrote his post.
Mar 27, 2018
I was able to figure out getting search running on this site with Lunr (interesting because this is a static site). I’ll need to see if I can do a write-up of my setup at some point after I have a chance to clean up some of the JS a bit since I didn’t see any really clear walkthroughs on getting this fully working from start to finish.
Mar 24, 2018
I decided to switch the site over to Hugo. At some point I would like to import some of my old posts from previous blogs. I always find that process a little difficult. When looking over past content it starts to seem dated or irrelevant to today. I’m sure there’s an argument for it showing a progression in thought or as reference material, but there’s plenty of, “hey, look what my dog did” that just doesn’t seem to be needed.
Jan 16, 2018
Just tried a Neti Pot for the first time and I gotta say, if you’re having sinus issues and never tried one, you should look into it — Matt Walters (@mwalters) January 16, 2018
Nov 23, 2017
Fifth year in a row Happy Thanksgiving folks! pic.twitter.com/z9AltKCrmu — Matt Walters (@mwalters) November 23, 2017
Oct 12, 2017
My dying breath just might be me saying, “you published a blog post, not a blog”. I know I’ve lost the fight, but it still annoys me — Matt Walters (@mwalters) October 12, 2017