Miranda Peak

A computer scientist striving to design and implement optimized and logically sound algorithms; to take advantage of strong typing; to continuously question and understand the inner workings of abstractions; and to avoid complexity and tech debt by maintaining human readable code through effective refactoring, well thought-out design, and documentation.

Why You Wouldnt Want to Hire Me as a Dev (or, a love letter to corporate America)

Dear multimillion dollar tech CEO, It is with great regret to inform you that you shouldn’t hire me as a dev to work in your pristine sweatshop. Below are reasons why I have come to such a decision. It wasn’t easy, but you deserve to know. 1. I question work given to me Oh no! I don’t take orders willy nilly! There is a rebel among the ranks! Unfortunately for you, tasks must have meaning and value. Not “busy” work that fakes productivity for the sake of turning what you think is “profit”. ...

SnipCart on Hugo: Setting up a Local Test Development Environment on Windows 11 and Git Bash

WARNING: This method should be done only with a public key for testing purposes. The public key WILL show up in the client-end code. Let’s say you want to test your Hugo site with SnipCart in a test development environment. Here is how you can do that. Prerequisites Git Bash Hugo A Hugo projec A SnipCart account Go to each link and follow the instructions for installation if you have not done so already. ...

HUGO GitHub Actions Deployment Failure with Dart-Sass

ISSUE: Hugo Site GitHub Actions Deployment Failure: sudo snap install dart-sass Run sudo snap install dart-sass error: cannot perform the following tasks: - Download snap "snapd" (26865) from channel "stable" (Get "https://api.snapcraft.io/api/v1/snaps/download/PMrrV4ml8uWuEUDBT8dSGnKUYbevVhc4_26865.snap": read tcp 10.1.0.253:40816->185.125.188.59:443: read: connection reset by peer) Installing Dart Sass via GitHub Actions through snap install results in a connection reset by peer error (shown above). This error occurred after making a change to my GitHub workflows file (in this case, hugo.yaml) in the root of my Hugo project. If you must know, the change was a simple command to dynamically inject an API key from my GitHub repository settings into my Hugo project. ...