Husbanding, Fathering, Golfing and Developing

…my way to retirement!! Since I've obviously got a ways to go, I do my best to keep busy. When I'm not out on the course or playing axeball in the other room I'm generally reading about some new (to me) languages and frameworks that have piqued my interest.

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Goodbye Gatsby, Hello Astro (Copilot did it)

After a few years of Gatsby being a complete overkill for a personal blog, I finally pulled the trigger and converted to Astro. And I did it entirely through GitHub Copilot. Here's how it went.

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Playing Around with Eleventy

Taking a stab at another static site generator. Eleventy (11ty) was a refreshingly simple SSG that was up and running in a couple days.

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Drupal Custom Service w/ Authentication

Connecting Drupal to a Google Authenticated Back End

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Java FX and Spring Boot playground

Started playing around with JavaFX (again), backed by Spring Boot. Seems interesting....

TechnologyJavaJavaFX

Getting Drupal 8 Up and Running

Lucky me got tasked with having to setup a local Drupal 8 environment provided by a vendor we chose to do our migration.. let's just say it wasn't fun.

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Databases for Developers

Down the rabbit hole and came across this amazing series of videos that every level of developer should watch! Thanks Chris!

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