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WordPress to Hugo to WordPress to Hugo

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I moved all my blogs back to Hugo. I have gone back and forth between Wordpress and Hugo several times. WordPress makes it really easy to write and publish content. On this domain, I was using WordPress as a bookmarking service. With PressThis plugin, I was able to use a bookmarklet and publish a new post from any page on the web. But that plugin has not been updated in a while and it seems with every new WordPress release something would break. A few times, I was able to hack it to keep going. But lately, I cannot keep up with it. I will have to figure out a better way to bookmark but for now, I didn’t want to deal with WordPress. And easy bookmarking was the only reason why I was using WordPress.

My other blogs were on WordPress as it is not a lot of work to host additional blogs on an existing server. But now that I don’t really need WordPress, I didn’t want the additional overhead of maintaining a server. So I migrated all blogs back to Hugo. I will slowly work on updating theme and everything.

New Focus in 2021
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Over last few weeks, I have been doing a lot of leet code and learning data science. I will focus this blog on basically what I am learning. Which is basically what my bookmarks were. Now I am thinking maybe once a week, I summarize and post here what I have learned or read in that week.

I am also very impressed with Part-time Larry, and want to emulate him. Trading and algorithmic trading are some of my favorite hobbies, and I have been following his tutorials as a fun way to learn Python and algotrading. The main topics of this blog will be:

  1. LeetCode (JavaScript and Python)
  2. Data Science
  3. Algorithmic Trading
  4. Trading

I want to make it a resource for learning especially for those who don’t like to watch videos.

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My experience with Open Water Scuba certification in Dallas

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This year I crossed off one of my bucket list items: I got my Open Water Diver certification. I had done scuba diving before in Honolulu. It is among my top 3 best experiences. Ever since that vacation, I had been wanting to get into diving more seriously. But since we live in land-locked Dallas, I didn’t think it was possible or worth it. Then this year in February I saw a Groupon from International Scuba, and I decided to just go for it. I think the Groupon was for $250, but then there was fine print which said we needed to buy our own mask, fins, snorkel, and boots. I bought all this gear from International Scuba as they offered free gear rental for checkout dives. But this added about an additional $200.

iPad Pro as main machine after 2 years

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I got my iPad Pro at the end of 2017. Before buying it, I had read many blog posts by various developers who were using iPad for programming and web development. But soon after I bought it, I realized that serious web development on iPad is hard. The biggest issue was debugging JavaScript and CSS without web tools. At first, I was having buyer’s remorse but I loved the form factor of iPad and loved drawing on it. I am used to reading on Kindle and iPad was just too heavy for long reading sessions but it was a very decent reading device for quick reading sessions. So I kept it.

What is this blog about anyways?

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I have had this domain since 2003. Originally, I wanted to make video games and Chaosplay was supposed to be a video games studio. But then it was mostly a blog. I blogged about video games and programming. A bit about personal life. Eventually my focus was on photography, so I blogged about photography. When we became parents, I was blogging about parenting. I wasn’t a consistent blogger. I stopped blogging many times. Also several times I wiped old posts and restarted blog with clean slate.