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I’d been running my blog on Ghost and DigitalOcean for a bit now, and while it’s not super expensive, it’s certainly not free. And I wasn’t comfortable with the fragility of the config. And while the editor was nice, it seemed like overkill for the type of blog I was hoping to have. I wanted something I could quickly get my thoughts on to paper. So after a little research I ended up configuring Hugo and publishing it to Github Pages. But the process wasn’t seamless, so here’s my notes: ...

Chatbots are handy, but let’s be honest, they can be a bit forgetful. Frustrated with bot conversations that felt like starting from scratch with every message, I decided to roll up my sleeves and tackle the problem. Armed with Power Automate and OpenAI, I started a quest to build a Microsoft Teams chatbot that could actually remember our chat history. Here’s a walkthrough of what I learned along the way - the successes, the hurdles, and everything in between. Let’s get into it. ...

Travel So I left Lighthouse Point in a rental car which I fraudulently acquired by misrepresenting myself as my dad. A great way to start this race weekend, eh? It was a Wednesday evening. My bike was crammed in the rental car and I had a cooler full of snacks. I kissed the wife and kids and drove off into the sunset. I arrived at my sister’s near Jacksonville later that night to meet up with my dad. I should’ve known something was wrong by the looks I was getting at the gas station, smoke billowing from under the 10-year-old rental car, but more on that later. ...