Cloud Computing

If Part 1’s theme was attempting to ‘vibe’ through golang text templates with codex then Part 2’s theme is attempting to ‘vibe’ through updates to a legacy javascript library with Gemini CLI. As planned this did not go as planned. I recommend skimming Part 1’s narrative, if not reading, as the following builds on it incrementally. Context, again First, a brief refresh on the origin of this work. I was dissatisfied with an existing hugo theme for my image gallery. I also wanted to present images using modern formats like avif which are unsupported by hugo’s builtin processing capabilities. This had impacts on how the templates for my new theme were structured. It also meant client side, in browser client, processing of image tags (e.g. exif or XMP data) for presentation. ...

Originally, I was going to write about using OpenAI Codex versus Google Gemini CLI to help me code my personal photos website. I could and may still do that, however, here we’ll tell a story about building a Hugo theme with codex, where things went right, and where they did not. We might also take digressions into commentary on the reality of software development and the 1986 Fred Brook’s essay ‘No Silver Bullet…’. ...

We all call it docs or gdoc or Google Docs, but the URL path actually says documents. Regardless, I must be in the minority, but I plead for vector graphics support anyway to whatever team within Google Workspaces is responsible for apps. Raster images Raster images are the jpegs, gifs, pngs, webps, tiffs, avifs, and many other formats of the world. They are of fixed resolution. I, and many people within the software development community before and after me, have created diagrams made of boxes, text, and lines connecting those boxes. We’ve used Visio (does anyone still use Visio?), Lucidchart, diagrams.net, and many other tools to create these images. ...

I recently bought a new domain and wanted to host a couple new static pages on it. I decided to do this using some new-to-me tools as a learning exercise. This post is about a couple things I learned along the way to hosting Michael On Random with Cloudflare CDN and Backblaze B2. ...

One of the advantages of operating in an environment like AWS or Azure is the ability to template and programmatically deploy both infrastructure and application platforms. This advantage is sometimes overlooked in place of a more adhoc deployment model where resources are created as needed. Today’s post provides brief commentary on some of the advantages of handling deployments in a more structured manner. ...