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Hugo

Wed, 01 Apr 2020 22:09:04 -0700

I’ve decided to migrate the blog to Hugo, as you might have noticed from the new look.

This is gonna be a pretty big project and I’m probably going to be at it a while. I did keep a copy of the old blog at blog.jekyll but it seems the formatting is already broken there :-(

Switching to jekyll

Mon, 01 Sep 2014 00:00:00 +0000

I spent a few hours this evening switching everything over from tcjblog to Jekyll. I really do miss a few parts of the old blog setup, but one of the main reasons I switched several years ago was LaTeX support. Back then, we didn’t have really sweet options like MathJax. And it just takes too long.

One of the other big things that was keeping me from updating the blog the last couple of months was… the stolen laptop. It turns out that I didn’t have very good backups for the last few website updates, which meant that I needed to manually restore blog posts from the website.

website basics

Fri, 15 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Several of my classmates in graduate school are considering making websites around now, and have asked me to explain it. I figured I’d explain the stack as I have it set up, and where you could make tradeoffs. For now, I’m not going to include too many detail here; I just want to outline the possibilities and lingo so that researching options is a bit easier for the uninitiated.

First off, many people are perfectly happy to use the school’s email and department web space. If you only want to have a list of relevant papers and soforth, then this is a fine approach. See the very bottom of this post for a couple potential ideas for organizing it.

Meta post - How my blog works

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +0000

A while back, Sharvil requested a quick overview of how I post stuff to my blog, so I thought I’d post a rundown of it.

At the base, I use a git repository to store files named entryNNNN.txt. Each has the basic format:

title: Meta post: How my blog works
date: 2012/07/27
category: software
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A while back, Sharvil requested a quick overview of how I post stuff to my blog, so I thought I'd post a rundown of it.
At the base, I use a git repository to store files named entryNNNN.txt. Each has the basic format:

To start a new post and fill in some of this, I have a script called ’newentry.sh’, which determines the latest entry number and adds one to get a new filename (eg, entry0081.txt).

tcjblog.py

Fri, 09 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve now (for the most part) finished a working version of some software I’ve wanted to tackle for a while. I call it tcjblog.py. It’s a blog platform built using jemdoc.py to format simple text files into nice looking HTML. What’re the benefits of this, and features of tcjblog.py in general?

Simple, text file management of blog posts. (I control these with git.)
Ability to include LaTeX markup.
Static HTML for all blog-related pages

Blog Segregation

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000

I’m slowly feeling more and more that I want some more compartments in my blogging. I’ve been thinking about stuff I want to blog, and stuff I don’t want to blog, and invariably they tend to get filed in both places. For example, I’d like to move toward a more professional blog that I could talk about my research, papers I’ve been reading, web sites I’ve found interesting, course projects, professional meetings, etc.

Themes!

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000

In all of my time with wordpress, I’ve pretty much stuck to the default themes, figuring that what I had to say was a bit more important than what I was doing with it. But then I came across one with some fluid dynamics going on… and I couldn’t pass it up. Maybe someday I’ll get around to throwing some of my own graphics up there, hehe. Enjoy!

Backposts Galore!

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Like I said in ‘~traviscj/ lives!’, I was stupid and forgot the hard drives with my websites on them at home. But….. Google Cache came through and I just pulled all my posts from that. The big downside is that there’s now definitely going to be some weirdness with overlapping posts and soforth, which is a pain, but I’m not really sure how to get around it, other than just waiting until I can get the data off the disks again. So, if you came across my page from an old link, you probably won’t see what you’re expecting, at least until Google Cache re-pulls everything. I don’t think too many people have linked to me, which is actually a good thing this once, I guess. In any case, I have the dates, titles, and posts. Sorry I lost your comments, feel free to re-comment at will!

traviscj lives!

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000

I finally got my blog running again. I don’t have the old data… oops. Forgot it at home. But in the mean time, at least I’m hosted again!

Introducing... me

Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:00:00 +0000

Or not. Ok, so… Every previous blog attempt has been a pile of crap. Well, therealtravisjohnson wasn’t always, but it kinda got stale. So, I’m not gonna bother talking about me until I have a substantial amount of posts.

I got owned on my math quiz today. It’s kinda ridiculous that we have a 60 minute quiz after 3 hours of lecture, I feel. Thank god I’ve largely gotten over the not studying well phase.