Posts on Davis Cole

How to Deploy a Blog

Sun, 19 Jan 2025 20:17:46 -0500

This post outlines how to deploy a Hugo blog using GitHub and CloudFlare Pages. This is because I prefer managing my domains on CloudFlare, and they make it really easy to set up a free worker to run a static website.

Configure Hugo locally

Install Hugo

Hugo is “The world’s fastest framework for building websites”. It’s a simple static site generator, which is perfect for a personal blog or portfolio, something I think most professionals would benefit from having.

Easy LaTeX Documents in VSCode

Tue, 10 Dec 2024 17:11:30 -0500

Watch here if you prefer video:

Something I realized too late in life is that Microsoft Word sucks. It does the bare minimum of being dead simple and accessible, but when writing longer papers with many equations, figures, and references, I found Word clunky.

I had used $\LaTeX$ for my resume starting my sophomore year, but since I relied heavily on templates, I never used it for anything else.

Loss

Fri, 29 Nov 2024 22:26:01 -0500

Today, my first pet of 15 years, a border collie named Lucky, was put down.

It is the day after Thanksgiving, Black Friday, and my heart hurts.

Lucky had been getting old for some time now, but he experienced a rapid decline starting around fall last year. He started losing weight, and his hind legs began to lose strength. Because of this he’d stand around all day, since laying down and getting up was so difficult.

Mastering Money

Wed, 11 Sep 2024 12:36:46 -0400

My experience in dealing with money

Quality Content

Thu, 11 Jul 2024 11:12:53 -0400

A curated compilation of quality media content

Content Creation Is Hard

Wed, 03 Jul 2024 12:35:16 -0400

I’ve always had issues with publishing personal content online. I don’t know if the oversharing campaign that was run during the advent of social media is just too ingrained into my mind, or if I just have anxiety about it.

Laptop Guide Q3 2024 (and other things)

Wed, 03 Jul 2024 11:46:00 -0400

Earlier today, my brother was asking me for a laptop recommendation. This is a relatively normal interaction, however upon recommending the 2021 14" MacBook Pro again, for perhaps the sixth time since its release, it made me reflect upon the laptop landscape.

To qualify my statements below, please read My Computer History.

My Computer History

Tue, 02 Jul 2024 14:54:23 -0400

A colored, tangent-filled history of my history with computers

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Wed, 19 Jun 2024 17:34:01 -0400

Finally, the Boston Celtics are NBA champions once again. Please allow me a couple moments, both as a Boston sports fan from birth and an avid Celtics fan since 2017-2018, as well as an enjoyer of team basketball.