In short, life is good. Am I worried? No. Summary If you’re part of my life, and are curious how I am and what I’ve been up to, here you go. I’m so thoughtful in my private life among friends, less so in my digital one because honestly that benefits me the most. It’s easy to be inconsiderate with your passions online, after all. I also dislike sharing everything on Facebook or Twitter for so many reasons.

For a while I’ve had an itch to scratch with the original idea I had for linksync. The premise is a standard format for opening tabs for a project, in either chrome or firefox, and launch your IDE and basically set up your workspace for each software project you’re working on. Enter lakespace - (github) which I plan to integrate into linksync. I also moved linksync into Lakesite.Net and subsequently drafted out an entire idea that combines del.

I’d just walked away from an extremely lucrative job while I was still an undergrad student at UTC because I wanted to create my own business and focus on the same things I did for other people, but with all the risk and reward. During the summer of 2003, I launched Lakesite.Net as an extension of my interests in programming services and hosting. Previous to that, I built out two ISPs that also focused on providing hosting services.

Back Inury: One Bad Rep For several years now I’ve done deadlifts on Mondays and stiff-legged deadlifts and Romanian deadlifts on Thursday. I’ve rarely had back pain and I’ve always taken great care to listen to my body and practice good form. I do barbell rows, dumbbell rows standing with bow stance, lat pulldowns and various other back centric exercises. The Sacroiliac Joint I continue to enjoy fitness topics, anatomy, biomechanics and anything that compliments my passion for lifting, running and martial arts.

Traditions For the past three years now I’ve gone on Chattanooga’s Grateful Gobber Walk for my Thanksgiving morning. This became a tradition, and one I’ve enjoyed since shortly after doing the first 5k of my life when I was rebuilding my life and getting fit. Going on this particular 5k run feels like an excellent way to celebrate Thanksgiving, and with 100% of the proceeds going to the Maclellan Shelter for Families, I was pretty stoked to spend my early morning in an ocean of other happy people planning to walk or run through downtown Chattanooga.

do-release-upgrade When I was automating the update for my personal site, I noticed the system it’s running on was out of date. I should be moving to a platform, or creating one myself. For now I’m using digital ocean or linode and have to maintain my own systems. When I ssh’d in to look at using hugo, I found it didn’t exist for 14.04, and so I went ahead and performed a remote update.

Lachesis In my last post I created a pull request to make sure a parameter was parsed properly in the gohugo-theme-ananke theme. Since it’s been almost two weeks since I submitted the PR, I decided to fork the MIT licensed theme into my own and attempt to take responsibility for maintaining and extending this theme. So this is how Ananke was forked and became Lachesis. Summary I forked an MIT licensed hugo theme and renamed it to Lachesis, set the master branch up to trigger an automatic deployment on netlify.

Managing content with Hugo I’ve periodically kept and maintained a blog over the years. I keep restarting whenever I enter a new life pattern. Recently I came back to a static site generator, Hugo, which is written in Go and has 30k+ stars on Github. Summary Hugo has excellent documentation on installation, getting started and usage. I’m surprised it doesn’t have a section that covers installation on Linux distributions. I personally use Ubuntu and Debian on the desktop for development, along with OSX and Windows.