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"Blog"

Really more of a changelog than a blog, but calling it a blog makes it sound cooler.

Dabbling with NoSQL

I've been meaning to start playing with NoSQL databases in my own projects for quite some time now, but never actually got around to it. My original plan was to set up some simple serverless Google Cloud Functions just to get a feel for them, but unfortunately it looks like my Google Cloud project is configured to use Datastore instead of the newer Firestore, and it doesn't look like Functions natively supports Datastore.…

New Year, New Site

Happy 2020. I've made some changes after the last post which are actually fairly visible, so it only seemed fair that they got a post as well. First, and most obviously, there's a new home page! I took my love of fancy obnoxious scroll effects and decided that it was time to bring them to my personal site. The actual content is still basically identical; at some point, I'd like to get…