In my previous post I had an initial tutorial for creating shortcodes. I had made a floating image with some text on the right. I thought I had succeeded, that I won. When I looked at it again the CSS styling and editing was gonna be tricky. I had lost the Markdownification that Hugo makes so my headers and text just looks like plain HTML text. fixing that would’ve taken me a while.
I wanted to start adding some content to my showcase and thought of displaying an image of the repository with some text next to it. Sounds easy enough, right?
The Hugo framework is amazing, really fast and really easy to add content. In other posts, I was ok with slapping the image on it but encountered some limitations with needing to modify the images.
Time, one of our most precious resources and what I believe to be a computers worst enemy.
When I worked at American Express, one of the biggest challenges of a real time payment system is keeping track of all the different time zones and daylight savings times.
I proposed scrapping all of that and moving everything to UTC with Unix Nanoseconds, the best way for computers to keep track of time. I was met with silence in the room and the meeting moved on but I stand by what I said!
Now that I have a blog going, it’s time to use my custom domain and register it.
We need two things here, I need to have a website hosted somewhere and that’s what Github Pages is doing right now. Secondly, we need to own a domain.
I’ve owned jorgesepulveda.dev since the .dev domains became available. I originally bought it on Google Sites but it got transferred to Squarespace without my consent. Reminds me of when my student loans change providers(servicers?). I don’t know, they take the payment and the feds are cool with it.