Well hello there!

I’m Carl and this is my website, there are many like it, but this one is mine. I’ve had this domain for quite a while and it’s gone through a few iterations. I’ve been kind of fascinated by static site generators for a while but I had to work up the energy to actually look into them and figure out what I wanted to do. I finally settled on Hugo which is an open-source SSG that I’ve rather enjoyed working with.

For the time being I’ll probably be posting stuff about the process of building a site in Hugo, some stuff about living on a farm and maybe eventually I’ll get to other nerdy math stuff like drawing fractals in JavaScript or some crap like that =)

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History of carl-tracy.com

Disclaimer First off let me say that I am by no means an authority on web technology, I wanted to re-do my website and part of that is making content. Writing is one of the things that I really suck at doing so I’m basically forcing myself to do it here, and part of that is discussing the technologies I’ve used over the years to build it. How my websites were built The early days Back in the mid to late 90s, around the time I was graduating from college, the web started to become a thing.
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Tiktok Shortcode for Hugo

Tiktok shortcode for Hugo When i was trying to post my adorable Tiktok of a wee baby duck that was just hatching, I couldn’t find anything about embedding Tiktoks into Hugo. I tried just pasting the embed code into a markdown page, but it didn’t work so I wrote a quick and dirty shortcode to do it: tiktok.html: Save this code in \layouts\shortcodes\tiktok.html <script async src="https://www.tiktok.com/embed.js"></script> <blockquote class="tiktok-embed" cite="https://www.tiktok.com/{{ .Get "usr" }}/video/{{ .
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Formula for the Weighted Average Life of a Mortgage

A while ago for work I had created a process that required a formula for the weighted average life (WAL) of a mortgage with level payments. I found one online: $$ W = N D_N - \frac{1}{r} $$ where: $$ \begin{aligned} d &= { 1 \over 1 + r} = \hbox{one month discount factor} \\[7pt] r &= {a \over 12} = \hbox{monthly discount} \\[10pt] N &= \hbox{Loan period in months} \\[10pt] D_n &= {1 \over 1-d^n} \end{aligned}
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Setting Up Hugo with SSL and MathJax

I’ve had a lot of fun setting up Hugo to set it up how I want. I will caveat this with a few things - I tried to do things the right way (not editing the theme directly) but I’m really really really fucking impatient and in a lot of cases I just edited the theme because I don’t want to deal with this shit. I’m never going to update it so screw it.
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Setting Up an SSL cetificate

While setting up this website I was constantly greeted by this in my address bar: I have no real reason for it to piss me off but it surely did. This must be remedied. My hosting is different from my registrar/DNS so accomplishing it took a little more work than it might if you have all that stuff in one place. I use namecheap as my registrar/DNS and HostPapa for my hosting (mostly because I used to use Lunarpages and they got bought by HostPapa).
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