JOHN W. MATHENA
On Digital Packrats and Why Open Source Rules
In my last post I talked about how exciting and relatively seamless my migration to Hugo was. Wellllll, it broke in prod. NOOO! But I had an idea. I posted on the Hugo forums for help! I posted late on a Friday night; maybe around 8pm or 8:30 (after checking the post it was just before 8pm) but after an hour or a little less, a very nice person named Joe cloned my website repo and started debugging for me.
Hugo is so nice, I migrated twice
After changing my blog and poetry site build systems to Hugo, I thought why not move everything to Hugo?
Same Blog, Different Build. On to Hugo!
I migrated my blog to Hugo! I’ve been using Jekyll to build my blogging site for the past couple years but I read that it is no longer actively supported. Several bloggers I follow have made the switch to Hugo and claim the build speed is a lot faster. Though that’s not really a concern for me at the moment, if I keep publishing here I’ll eventually run into those problems.
Though I don’t feel anything from pt 1 was incorrect, I wanted lend a bit more credulity to AI and Machine Learning work. I’m gonna reference mostly work and posts from a machine learning engineer and tech writer I follow, Vicki Boykis. She has a great post from Feb 2023 on Chat GPT titled “What should you use Chat GPT for?”. Part of her assessment from then:
I’m trying to get in the habit of blogging a bit more frequently so this will seem less collected than other posts.
(Minor spoilers for The Bear season 2 lie ahead)
Episode four of season two of The Bear takes a slight detour from a Chicago family restaurant aiming to reinvent itself to a high-end kitchen in the Netherlands. The Chicago shop’s head chefs send their baker, Marcus, to Copenhagen to learn some new dishes from a pastry chef named Luca.
A WSJ op-ed made its rounds through my little corner of lefty twitter. I’m not a subscriber, so I did not read it. Take this post with however big a grain of salt you feel appropriate.