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    <title>Les&#39;s digital explorations</title>
    <link>https://lesv.github.io/</link>
    <description>Recent content on Les&#39;s digital explorations</description>
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      <title>hugo</title>
      <link>https://lesv.github.io/post/hugo/</link>
      <pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2015 13:45:30 -0700</pubDate>
      
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&lt;p&gt;I met &lt;a href=&#34;http://spf13.com/&#34;&gt;SPF13&lt;/a&gt; last year &amp;ndash; remembered having a good chat with him and when I was
thinking about my blog, I considered various options:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;http://jekyllrb.com/&#34;&gt;Jekyll&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://blogger.com&#34;&gt;blogger&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Then I remembered Hugo.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;It&amp;rsquo;s been a very long time since I created a blog – I&amp;rsquo;ve owned AngelTech.com for a very long time,
but that&amp;rsquo;s hosted w/o https certificates, and is a pain to move, due to locked DNS entries, so
I&amp;rsquo;d thought I&amp;rsquo;d try hosting on &lt;a href=&#34;https://pages.github.com/&#34;&gt;Github pages&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Anyway, Steve (SPF13), wrote &lt;a href=&#34;http://gohugo.io/&#34;&gt;Hugo&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a href=&#34;http://golang.org/&#34;&gt;Go&lt;/a&gt; which sounds a lot
more efficient than Jekyll&amp;rsquo;s use of Ruby. (Never a fan of scripting languages).&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;So far, I&amp;rsquo;m quite happy with it, I&amp;rsquo;m about a 30 minute user.  At this point, I&amp;rsquo;ve found that many of
the available templates don&amp;rsquo;t work right out of the box, w/ the exception of the list below. (I tried
them all)&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2 id=&#34;issues:32ab7241d48fcc174c877413a917f8cf&#34;&gt;Issues&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;When there is no theme, it still hangs in server mode.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Changes to config.toml don&amp;rsquo;t get pickedup durring &amp;ndash;watch&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;

&lt;h2 id=&#34;my-preferred-themes:32ab7241d48fcc174c877413a917f8cf&#34;&gt;My Preferred Themes&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;lanyon &amp;ndash; Black &amp;amp; White &amp;ndash; really good looking &amp;amp; behaving.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://github.com/mpas/hugo-journal&#34;&gt;journal&lt;/a&gt; &amp;ndash; delightful = lots of red &amp;ndash; some tweaks needed.  (I chose this one!)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;hugoscroll &amp;ndash; delightful big colors &amp;ndash; needs customization&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;h2 id=&#34;other-themes:32ab7241d48fcc174c877413a917f8cf&#34;&gt;Other Themes&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;greyshade &amp;ndash; good  (modify the about)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;heather-hugo &amp;ndash; good&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;hyde &amp;ndash; good&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;herring-cove &amp;ndash; good (near empty home page)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;html5 &amp;ndash; good &amp;ndash; very sparce home page &amp;ndash; no basic width&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;hugo-base-theme - good - needs mods  &amp;ndash; huge picture&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;hugo-bootswatch - Very nice&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;hugo-incorporated &amp;ndash; Really like &amp;ndash; missing About, has XML&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;landing-page-hugo &amp;ndash; really nice looking, not for me.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;liquorice &amp;ndash; nice bw theme &amp;ndash; missing about&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;nofancy &amp;ndash; simple nice.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;pixyll &amp;ndash; Nice - big &amp;amp; bold - bw&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;shiori &amp;ndash; very professional &amp;ndash; missing about&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;simple-a - nice &amp;ndash; very sparse&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;slim - weird UX&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;tachyons &amp;ndash; nice, but full screen &amp;ndash; awkward for blogs.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;tinyce &amp;ndash; minimal, missing about - Missing para breaks&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;twentyfourteen &amp;ndash; lots of search boxes &amp;ndash; very long lines&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Now I&amp;rsquo;m about 2 hours into it.  Still happy &amp;ndash; but disappointed at the Theme quality.&lt;/p&gt;
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      <title>first</title>
      <link>https://lesv.github.io/post/first/</link>
      <pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2015 13:19:31 -0700</pubDate>
      
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Everything has a beginning, weather we know it or not.  And this is my blog&amp;rsquo;s beginning.  I hope to
write about things I work with, what I learn, what I get wrong, and more.  My current interests include
Authentication, Authorization, Big Data, Data Science, Security, Internet of Things, the Brain Project,
the intersection of Neurology and computers, politics - which I won&amp;rsquo;t write about while I&amp;rsquo;m at Google,
sustainability, and much more.&lt;/p&gt;
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      <title>about</title>
      <link>https://lesv.github.io/page/about/</link>
      <pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2015 13:18:35 -0700</pubDate>
      
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&lt;h1 id=&#34;welcome:6083a88ee3411b0d17ce02d738f69d47&#34;&gt;Welcome!&lt;/h1&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Hi, I&amp;rsquo;m Les Vogel, a Developer Programs Engineer for Google Cloud.  I&amp;rsquo;ve also worked on Google TV and Chromecast.  Before Google, I wandered around a bit &amp;ndash; from my resume:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“It turns out Apple has the best Handwriting technology in the world right now.” and “Apple was the first computer company with a low cost WiFi device.” said Steve Jobs regarding two of my projects. The AirPort base station was named #34 top tech project of all time by PC World Magazine - I was technical lead. Before AirPort, 802.11 wireless was configured by entering the name of the network you wanted to join. I came up with the idea of using the Diagnostic Scan which had a list of networks the device could see, and displaying that in a list for the user to choose from. (Thus we had easy networking)&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Over fourty years of creating, developing and leading software engineering projects. Visible projects: AirPort, iBook, the Newton printed handwriting recognizer, Spreadsheet engine for Ashton Tate, distributed multi-processor OS for Motorola, a flood management telemetry system for the TVA, and a fail-safe system for Boeing Energy Systems. ```&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;My projects have been reviewed by Time Magazine, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal. Once asked to what does he do? Are you an Architect, Coder, Software Engineer? The Reply &amp;ldquo;I make shit happen&amp;rdquo;, I still do.```&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;One of the differences between someone new and someone senior is the ability to know how long something takes to happen. I can usually do that, assuming the specifications don&amp;rsquo;t change.```&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Making things fast has is an exponential benefit for the user, faster things use less battery, and it delights them.```&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Specialties: Turning ideas into products, Small devices, Smart Websites, engines of all kinds, Debugging, Optimization, Building and managing teams, Android, Python, Java, C, Obj-C, C++, budgeting, scheduling, negotiating, contractor management, project/program management.```&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I also do volunteer work on the switchboard at &lt;a href=&#34;http://sfsi.org&#34;&gt;San Francisco Sex Information&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
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