Custom Links in Emacs's Org Mode
All my notes live in Emacs' org-mode. Lot's of my notes are about GitHub. I found many instances of https://github.com/pulumi/registry/issues/12345 in my notes1, mostly hand typed. This was long2, both to type and to more importantly to read. Link descriptions are the preferred way to deal with this in org-mode, but they require even more typing. …
Go Pointers Considered Confusing
I write code in multiple languages for my day job, but 90% of it is in Go. That said, I don't like Go. There are better blog posts that I agree with explaining the problems with the language. I want off Mr. Golang's Wild Ride is the first that comes to mind. I'm not going to provide my general thoughts on Go, nor am I going to talk about its desig…
Hosting this Blog with AWS and Pulumi
Hello, dear reader. Welcome to the first post on my blog. In the tradition of self-reference that we find ourselves,1 I'm going to write my first blog post about the infrastructure behind this blog. My blog is hosted on AWS and is composed of two S3 buckets, a route53 zone certified via acm and all appropriate records, and Cloudfront Distributions…