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Major code restructure lmao. Soooo recently I decided to containerize this site with Docker. jadenarceneaux.com(https://jadenarceneaux.com), api.jadenarceneaux.com(https://api.jadenarceneaux.com), and my reverse proxy are now all stored in a single repository. This makes it so much easier to deploy new instances of my website. All I have to do is clone the repo, create the .env file based on the .env.example file, and run docker compose up -d to bring it up. Also, a change worth noting is my switch from Nginx to Caddy for reverse proxy and file hosting. Honestly, I really liked Nginx but trying to get SSL cert generation to...
Introduction By far, the worst part of my job is setting up new workstations for new developers. There's the easy stuff, like installing Linux and getting all their tools and IDEs set up. But then comes the challenge of getting a development web server up and running. It would usually take damn near the entire programming team putting our noggins together to try to get Apache up and running with the PHP-fpm on a new developers machine. I think this was largely caused by the fact that not a single one of us had any functional idea as to what...
The biggest update yet. TL;DR - Switched hosting from GitHub Pages to KnownHost VPS - Switch from Google Analytics to Cloudflare Analytics - New API for handling contact form submissions - Captcha and rate limiter for preventing bots and spam First of all, I've made a massive change in hosting providers for this website. Previously it was hosted using GitHub pages. A free service offered by GitHub to host static sites. I used a GitHub action to compile my Hugo project into HTML on every push. Handling form submissions was a little awkward, I had to use a third-party form...
Although I'm a little late, this website is now 1 year old. This also happens to be the 500th commit. I'm super proud of how far it's come. In the past year I had over 400 readers entertain my madness. Huge thanks to everyone who supported this little side project. Much love to everyone <3
Let's get straight to it. Most of this tech isn't "new" it's just new to me and maybe new to many of you. My Priorities - Cross-platform support - I have an iPhone, a de-googled Android phone, a MacBook that I take everywhere, a Windows PC for gaming, and a Linux Desktop that I work on. Everything I use needs to - Privacy - I really do care about my data privacy. If my data doesn't have to be out there then it shouldn't. So open-sourced and end-to-end encryption are the name of the game. Massgrave(https://massgrave.dev/) I don't know why...
This is just a compilation of my observations in my day-to-day life asking people about AI. I could very well just be hanging out with haters and not even know it. I should also probably say that of course I'm biased because I'm a programmer and also I love my job. Generally speaking, only two groups of people are really excited about the current renaissance in artificial intelligence research: students who use it to "study" and tech enthusiasts who see money to be made. But every working-class person outside of the tech sphere I've talked to seems to have the...
For those of you who don't know, I drive a 2024 Tesla Model 3 affectionately named Teezo that I've owned for about five months. Aside from a few bumps in the road, it has been an absolute joy to own. A full account of what it's like to own the car is on the way so look out for that blog post in the future. But today I want to focus on one particularly harsh "bump in the road" that I encountered hours ago. What happened? Earlier today, I spent some time hanging out with my dad because his birthday...
The question that everyone around me seems to constantly ask. I'll admit, I don't eat much, I never have. Since birth, I've technically been a pollotarian(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollotarianism) but I say technically because it's not something I do intentionally. I feel like every one of my blog posts can be destroyed with the question "who cares", this one is the epitome of that. The Situation I have a lot of food allergies. I'm allergic to eggs, nuts, fruit seeds, and all seafood (including shellfish). I also don't eat red meat or pork. Not for any religious or health reasons, I just think...
Truth be told, I only know one guy who's actually excited about AI. Everyone else is largely apathetic towards it at best. But It seems like every product that comes out finds some way to shoehorn AI into it. There's a whole think piece in itself about why no one cares about it, but the bigger question is why does every company think we want it? Also this is my opinion so feel free to correct me Tech companies are notoriously not profitable. Companies like Snapchat, Spotify, and Twitter (I'm not calling it X) have notably never turned a profit....
First off I should say that I absolutely love my Tesla Model 3. It very well might be one of my favorite cars of all time and it's by far the best daily driver I could ask for. It does have a few problems - Range - Elon Musk - Charging availability - Elon Musk - No Amazon Prime Video But by far the strangest problem is the air conditioning. It stinks. Like literally, Teslas are known to develop a smell after months of use and it's not just because the drivers don't shower. Every air conditioning system is just...