chriskirkland.us - Chris Kirkland

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Welcome to my new website powered generated by Hugo, created by spf13, with the theme Blackburn. This will serve as both my professional webpage and semi-professional blog. Professionally, the blog will follow my experiences working with OpenStack and developing in Python/Bash/Golang. Additionally, I will probably blog about my time spent studying Go. For backgroud information, see the About Me page.

Motivation My name is Chris, and I have a problem. Hi, Chris. In all seriousness, I’m not sure I would call it a problem but I am (admittedly) obsessive when it comes to efficiency in my every day life. Finding little ways to improve how quickly I can complete day-to-day tasks is a game that I constantly play. I realized recently that my morning routine of making breakfast follows the general principles of least-constrained optimization: toast starts first, then tea, then coffee (instant kettle FTW) because

Goal Around two months ago, I created a blog post for my weekend project demonstrating 1-dimensional Cellulator Automata; you can see that post here. Since then, I’ve started looking more into more current Web Development technologies including some of the videos from Travis Nielson’s fantastic youtube channel addressing topics in Web Development and full process design. Through those videos, I was introduced to the preprocessing/templating languages Pug (formerly Jade) and Sass for HTML and CSS, respective