Hugo Gotchas

 Posted on May 10, 2018  (Last modified on January 20, 2020)  |  3 minutes  |  Chase Sawyer

Gotchas In order of the issue being found: Is Strange (Hugo) (Template Logic) Hugo templates use strange logic - for conditional statements, Hugo uses Polish or prefix notation for the operators. This meas that instead of writing if this and that, you have to write if and this that. For more complex arrangements of logical conditions, say for a situation in which you need to check three conditions, you have to write it as: if and (first) ( and (second) (third)) which, in a infix notation style, would have been written if first and second and third. [Read More]
post  fyi  note  help 

Bad Coffee

A silly complaint

 Posted on May 10, 2018  (Last modified on May 12, 2018)  |  1 minutes  |  Chase Sawyer

I woke up late today, so I didn't have time to make coffee. And instead of going to my usual place where I know there's going to be great coffee available, I decided to get a doughnut and some coffee from the doughnut shop. The first warning that this wasn't going to go well was when I got my travel mug back and there was coffee all over the outside of the mug. [Read More]
blog  coffee  fwp  short 

New Site Structure

 Posted on May 9, 2018  (Last modified on June 15, 2019)  |  2 minutes  |  Chase Sawyer

I took some time this week to look into all the code that I've been collecting and producing over the last year or more and began to assess where everything was being stored and hosted. Since I build a lot of demos and try out new technologies on a pretty consistent (if not sporadic) basis, this has led me to a state where I have several projects hosted on Heroku, on AWS, and offline. [Read More]
post  update 

New Static Site with Hugo

 Posted on May 9, 2018  |  2 minutes  |  Chase Sawyer

Built a new site, leaving Jekyll for Hugo, for my github.io page. Changes Moved all my old Jekyll files to a new subdirectory in order to maintain access to the old code and posts, and then transition all the content over to the main Hugo site as settings come together. One major advantage of Hugo is that the build process is super fast, so I've been looking at how to integrate CircleCI with Hugo builds. [Read More]
post  Hugo  update 

Python Tk UI Notes, Project Update

 Posted on June 21, 2017  (Last modified on January 20, 2020)  |  4 minutes  |  Chase Sawyer

I've been making a lot of progress on the python-LEDSerialController project. There's been a lot to learn about how to run the original command line script with a GUI frontend. I chose to use Tk since it's baked into Python already, and there's nothing to configure to get it working. It doesn't look nearly as nice as something that would come out of using a more advanced UI toolkit, but it's also had a lower bar to entry, despite some drawbacks with Tk's documentation. [Read More]
python  gui  update 

Learning Jekyll and Getting Started with Github Pages

 Posted on May 25, 2017  (Last modified on January 20, 2020)  |  3 minutes  |  Chase Sawyer

First Post! Learning how to set up Jekyll on GitHub Pages is actually a little harder than I was expecting from the outset. Mostly because most of the things that you need to set up Jekyll for local development, and a lot of the things that come prepackaged with it aren't actually necessary for running it on GitHub Pages. Here is the Gemfile content for this page when I first started and got things working: [Read More]
jekyll  update  learning