Blog

This blog is more of a notebook for me. There''s not much here, as the blog just started. More will appear over time (I hope :) )

Logging Into a Container Running on ECS Fargate

22 May 2026 • 4 min read

AWS

How to open an interactive shell inside a running Fargate container using ECS Exec and the AWS CLI

aws ecs fargate docker devops

Bash Arrays — Comprehensive Guide

22 May 2026 • 6 min read

Bash

A comprehensive guide to working with arrays in Bash — declaring, accessing, iterating, modifying, sorting, filtering, and passing arrays to functions

bash shell scripting devops

Shrinking a MongoDB Dump

05 May 2026 • 8 min read

MongoDB

How to reduce the size of a MongoDB dump using a temporary EC2 instance, mongorestore, and mongodump

mongodb aws ec2 devops database

GHA workflow with workflow_dispatch trigger on your feature_branch

27 Apr 2026 • 3 min read

automation

How to run GHA workflow on your feature_branch with workflow_dispatch trigger

github github actions ci/cd automation

Stop tracking a file in Git

24 Apr 2026 • 2 min read

documentation

How to stop tracking changes in a file in Git

git

Adding a Related Posts Section to Hugo Blog Posts

21 Apr 2026 • 3 min read

Hugo

How to add an automatic related posts section at the bottom of Hugo blog posts using Hugo's built-in Related Pages feature

hugo blog frontend templates

Adding Open Graph Social Preview Images to a Hugo Site

14 Apr 2026 • 4 min read

Hugo

How to add Open Graph meta tags and a social preview image to a Hugo site so links look great when shared on LinkedIn, Twitter/X, and Slack

hugo seo open-graph social blog

Adding Comments to Hugo Blog Posts with Giscus

07 Apr 2026 • 3 min read

Hugo

How to add a free, GitHub-powered comments system to a Hugo static site using Giscus

hugo giscus github comments blog

Enabling Search Functionality in Hugo with Minimal Black Theme

31 Mar 2026 • 3 min read

Hugo

How to enable and expose the built-in search functionality in the Hugo Minimal Black theme

hugo search javascript frontend blog

Adding a Reading Progress Bar to Hugo Blog Posts

24 Mar 2026 • 3 min read

Hugo

How to add a reading progress bar to Hugo blog posts using pure CSS and vanilla JavaScript

hugo javascript css frontend blog