April 12, 2018

Spreadsheet Jeopardy!

My girlfriend and I often watch Jeopardy! together, and we play along and keep score to make it more fun. To avoid having to pause the show to wager, we...

April 09, 2018

Setting Emacs Theme Based on Ambient Light

I sit next to a window at work. On sunny days it’s easier to see a light editor theme, and when the sky is dark, a dark theme is easier...

April 02, 2018

Creating a new blog post in Emacs

Now that my blog is based on markdown text files, some new tooling options have opened! entire blog is under source control (done) make targets for common actions (e.g. create...

March 31, 2018

under construction

I was having some headaches with my existing shared hosting provider, so I decided to move this site to a VPS. I also didn’t want to run a LAMP stack,...

February 08, 2018

How to set up free SSL on shared-hosting with Let’s Encrypt

I just updated this domain to use HTTPS with Let’s Encrypt as a certificate authority. Presently this site is on a shared-hosting provider and I had to generate a cert...