What I'm Thinking
Control your Homebrew package upgrades
5 December 2016
I have always upgraded my installed homebrew packages whenever updates became available. Recently however, I ran into a situation where I did not want to upgrade a specific package while also upgrading the rest. Loved how incredibly easy Homebrew made this.
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SiriusXM: The Heat Tracker
29 November 2016
There are a few SiriusXM stations that I always listened to in my car. With Hip-Hop being one of my favorite genres, The Heat was one of my favorite stations. I liked that they play new and old songs, and I would always pick up on some new song that is beginning to trend. After moving to Bulgaria I lost this ability, and I could not justify paying more for online radio than Spotify. This seemed like a good excuse for using the data which SiriusXM provides on their websites for ’now playing’, and a fun small project to learn something about technologies that I had not used before.
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Hello World! From Hugo
11 October 2016
First post from Hugo–the fast and modern static website engine.
I quickly become a fan of statically generated sites after seeing Jekyll a few years ago. After getting tired of WordPress, it was on my radar to update my site to a statically generated one, and learn something new at the same time. I was not a fan of the installation dependencies I had to manage with Jekyll, but yesterday I stumbled upon a HN post about Hugo. This baby runs straight out of the box with a simple ‘homebrew install’ command, and as a bonus, it’s written in Go–a new language I began playing around with recently and really enjoy.
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