Xavier J. Ortiz

Posts by Year

2024 6
2023 1
2022 12
2021 3
2018 2
2017 3
2016 3

2024

Wormhole Mapping Tool Cleanup

October 28, 2024 3 minute read

Quick Update on Terraform Tripwire Project

Wormhole Mapping Tool Dilemmas

March 22, 2024 5 minute read

Thought all was well I haven’t played EvE in quite some time. When I was a bit more active I had a wormhole mapping tool to use in game, and late last year, ...

Finding Time with Shifting Priorities

January 17, 2024 9 minute read

When I started this blog, I had just gotten married and we lived in a rented apartment in Brooklyn.

Jekyll and Minimal Mistakes on Debian (12) Bookworm

January 4, 2024 4 minute read

Short Evaluation on What Framework to Use for this Blog

Custom Domain for Github Pages Hosted Blog

January 3, 2024 3 minute read

Using Github Pages as CI/CD, and using my custom subdomain

First(!) 2024 Post, and Loose Goals for the Year

January 3, 2024 7 minute read

Life and workflow changes lead to delays Last time I posted was about a year ago. Not my intention to leave this blog, or other projects “abandoned”.

2023

To Pandas, or not to Pandas

January 17, 2023 8 minute read

Research on Pandas I’ve created a branch on my market_hub_puller:DataFrame-Only which leverages the pandas library, and uses the data structure native to pan...

2022

To Add Comments, or Migrate from Jekyll to Something New

December 29, 2022 6 minute read

I want comments

SQL, Pandas, or Python Dictionary for Analyzing Data

December 19, 2022 7 minute read

I’ve done a review of the market_hub_puller repo that is my current project. It seems that I’ve done a slight overhaul on how to fetch said data, and have le...

Time to Sleuth! –or– What’s that folder about?!

December 18, 2022 7 minute read

New Overhaul Folder Forgotten

Fixing Tag Labels Redirect

December 16, 2022 2 minute read

Fixing things that hadn’t worked

Spelling in VIM

December 13, 2022 1 minute read

After writing yesterday’s post, I realized that I had spelled a couple of things wrong. More than a couple of things wrong. So looked into spell checking in ...

And so the new adventure begins… Again

December 12, 2022 2 minute read

It’s been a while again. There have been many changes since my last post.

To Clean Up a Project Mess, Will Need to Plan

April 1, 2022 3 minute read

Today’s post will be a bit short.

Upgrading to Jekyll 4 and overhauling Theme

March 27, 2022 4 minute read

I’m motivated. So I decided to upgrade to Jekyll 4 last night. Fortunately the Jekyll upgrade was actually not that difficult. I decided to keep being on Jek...

RVM and Jekyll install for Jenkins

March 26, 2022 3 minute read

With setting up CI/CD, I wanted to make sure that I covered the actual steps I took instead of going off on a tangent. Though, much was learned when going of...

Adding and Working with a Jenkins Multibranch Pipeline

March 26, 2022 9 minute read

Now comes the bit part. Many bits and bobs, but will try to capture all the steps required to install Jenkins as well as setup a repo together with the key l...

Over the Hill and Through the CI/CD woods for Jekyll

March 25, 2022 less than 1 minute read

It’s been quite an effort, but I believe I’ve done it!

MVP, CI/CD, and Data… oh my!

March 24, 2022 3 minute read

Fell into a bit of a slump come around the holidays, and also Q1. Work and other RL obligations has kept me “entertained”, to put it nicely. Lets leave it at...

2021

API pulling market data from Eve Online High Sec Market Hubs

November 29, 2021 6 minute read

So, As you may or may not have inferred from the link on the website’s landing page, I dabble in playing Eve Online. It’s a Spaceship MMO, and for me, it is ...

NGINX snafu linked to letsencrypt?

November 3, 2021 3 minute read

Clearly I have things running, given that the previous, and this current, post are both up and running.

It’s been a while….

October 30, 2021 6 minute read

A lot has happened since my last post.

2018

Did the Belay Class Today at the Climbing Gym!

March 25, 2018 4 minute read

I’m super excited about this.

Deploying React, Angular apps, as well as WordPress on a VM

February 17, 2018 7 minute read

Before starting, I’d like to provide some background. My last post on contributing to Open Source was made before actually writing a single line of code towa...