I have taken up the hobby of enjoying cigars, with or without a good whiskey. Cigars and other tobacco products are (of course) for adult consumption only and should not be used by minors. Disclaimer, they are likely not great for your health, but can be very enjoyable if used responsibly. I have created this page to list and keep track of the cigars I have tried and do like. I will update this…
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As the date for my retirement approached, I thought it would be fun to create a count down timer to the last day. I have made a few iterations to during development and ended up with this version on my old website. The code for the countdown clock versions is in gitlab here. As of Sept 2024 I have updated this code (see below) to include a date picker so its more generic and you can set the date…
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An article by Victor Davis Hanson "The Coup We Never Knew" on the American Greatness website asks many questions that seem to be about common sense. Seems to me that many people today have lost their common sense. They have bought into a crazy idealogy that teaches the opposite of what is true is the truth. This "woke" cult changes and twists accepted language, pits people against each other and…
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I have moved from ghost cms to decap cms. This way a local host is not needed to host the ghost content. All of the sit is hosted in the cloud on netlify and in GitHub. My GitHub site code is here. The site is built on the gatsby & decap starter template found here. This site can also be run totally for free using gatsby, netlify, and GitHub - which is awesome. A fun animation.
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Since retirement I have begun to read in earnest again. With the following post I will be cataloging the books I have read and plan to add links to how to purchase and possibly some brief descriptions or reviews. I will clean up the list below and put into a table by author next. More to come... Non-fiction Great Good Thing - Andrew Klavan Laptop from Hell - Miranda Devine Fiction The Expanse…
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This site is a Jamstack site using git to store and serve content, netlify for hosting, and Gatsby for the dynamic build and Decap CMS for easy updates. Other than the time to update the code and migrate my site from my local server it cost nothing to build. If you like it, please read on. If you don't (and I'm sorry thats the case) there are other sites on the interwebs to try.
Decap CMS is a content management application that uses a git repository for a backend. Look here:(https://decapcms.org/) for more information about Decap.
Gatsby is a React-based open source framework for creating websites. Look here:(https://www.gatsbyjs.com/docs) for more information about Gatsby.
GitHub is a web base interface for git repositories. It provides a platform that allows developers to create, store, manage and share their code. Look here: (https://docs.github.com/en) for more information about Github.
Netlify is a static website hosting service. It integrates with GitHub to build this site as well as provides hosting. Look here: (https://www.netlify.com/) for more information about Netlify.
