With this post, I can say that I have successfully completed moving my website from GatsbyJS to Hugo and in the process did some neat things with it. First off, a quick note about why Gatsby wasn’t quite right for this website. The last move was from Jekyll to Gatsby and a lot of what originally drove that transition was getting away from Ruby and starting to investigate decoupled websites as it related to Drupal which I use for work. Well, though I got away from Ruby when it came to this website, I still maintain other Jekyll sites and old Drupal themes built on top of Ruby, so it is still a part of my life. When it came to investigating decoupled websites, I learned that I shouldn’t bring my work home. At least for the short term, that kind of work and investigation has been postponed at work and without the need at home, I wasn’t motivated to dive into it on my own time. Gatsby is a very versatile tool, but this website doesn’t need all of that. ...

I just got back from another year of RAGBRAI. Wasn’t sure if it would actually happen because of the new wave of COVID-19 cases. It was cancelled last year. I only did three and a half days of riding from Parkersburg to Clinton. Originally, I was going to bike out to the route and back and meet up with my team, but when my friend Mike said he was going to come all the way over from Switzerland, I adjusted my plans so that I could help him get to the route/team and share any gear with him that he may have needed. ...

At the beginning of June this year, I went on a five-night canoe camping trip with family members in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA), specifically the Shell Lake area off entry point 14. This was my first canoe trip and my first time visiting the BWCA. Because of that, I had a lot of questions going into the trip. Normally, on canoe trips, folks have a tendency to pack more similar to a car camping trip because the hikes, or portages, are short and the canoes instead carry most of the weight. ...

I went on a short weekend ski trip to Park City, UT. I don’t have a photo of my items, but if you have seen my North Face Recon backpack, it was completely stuffed. Zippers were hard to close and it barely fit under the seat on the plane. Packing the items in a particular order was the element of success. North Face Recon backpack North Face Jacket Shell North Face Down Jacket Columbia Snow Pants Thinsulate mittens North Face e*tip gloves Dorky stocking hat with ball on top Scott Ski Goggles Smart Wool baklava Buff * Merino Wool Patagonia long underwear Under Armour 1/4 zip shirt Tees (3) Underwear (4) Wool Socks (4) Swim briefs Hospital Scrub Pants Pants Patagonia R1 hoodie Trucker hat Keen Boots Bluetooth ear bud headphones Mini battery bank Charging cords, wall adapter Phone Wallet Hanky Snacks (shelled sunflower seeds, raisins, dark chocolate) Travel coffee mug Deodorant Toothbrush Toothpaste Beard comb Ibprophen Daily vitamins Dr Bronner’s soap samples Zip-Lock baggie (toiletries) Worn on the plane ...

We get it all the time at my work. “Can I put my Facebook timeline on my website?” Absolutely not. Here is why. They are generally inaccessible At work, we strive maintain websites that are WCAG 2.0 compliant. Most of these timeline widgets lack the neccessary accomodations to make them accessible to all. They don’t blend in with your website’s look and feel They are usually difficult to design around and stick out like a sore thumb unless your site uses the same color scheme. ...