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    From Jekyll to Astro - Modernizing Chaotic Brain

    Ten years after setting up this blog on Jekyll, I finally got around to rebuilding it. Ruby rot, dead dependencies, and a more modern path forward with Astro.

    astro jekyll workflow github-pages

    Git Freedom - Using git with a large svn repository

    How to overlay git workflow benefits like stashing and branching on top of a large SVN repository using git-svn.

    git svn workflow

    Pyxnat - When removing features makes it better.

    Removing caching from the Pyxnat library by replacing httplib2 with Python's Requests improved performance and reliability.

    python XNAT pyxnat

    Getting the ball rolling

    Setting up Jekyll and GitHub Pages for the first time — how a 5-minute task turned into an adventure.

    git python workflow
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