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Andrew Tongen's Weblog
Jekyll Plugins Hosted on github.io
Github is great for hosting your static site using jekyll. It’s free and is not ad-supported. One of the only drawbacks is that jekyll plugins won’t be run when you push code to your repo. There several workarounds for this...
Be Your Own CA
After spending so much time this week dealing with repercussions relating to the OpenSSL “Heartbleed” bug, I thought it was time to go back and properly set myself up as a CA, like I had been meaning to. Why would...
Computer Build
After my old 5 year old Dell desktop pooped out on me, I thought it’d be fun to build my own computer. Fortunately, pcpartpicker.com makes this very easy. I’m not really into gaming, so it was easy to build a...
Winter Trip to Orr
Grethe and I decided to have a little winter get-away at the cabin up north. This is a three-season cabin, so it was a bit like winter camping. There was no running water, but there was a stove that kept...
2014 American Birkebeiner
Back again after another year. This year’s Birkie was cold with lots of new snow from the day before making the course difficult with race times slower than expected. I still had a blast, though and I plan on doing...
St. John New Year
We were lucky enough to take a nice trip to the US Virgin Islands over New Year’s. We stayed on the island of St. John. The weather was great and we had a great time snorkeling and relaxing on the...
Packrafting Eureka Creek
Over the 4th of July, my wife, my father-in-law and I decided to take a packrafting trip in Alaska. We did some research and found a cool trip that is described very well here: McClaren Summit to Eureka Creek Traverse...
chruby: A Ruby Switcher I Can Live With
I’ve never really been happy with rvm. It always felt like it was trying to do too much. And, I really didn’t see the point of using gemsets when we have bundler. I used rbenv for a while, and it...
Added Disqus
Today I added Disqus commenting to my blog! Go ahead, leave a comment, it’ll be fun! Hopefully this will be useful to readers as I add more content to this site.
2013 American Birkebeiner
Yesterday I finished my first Birkie! The weather was great for skiing and the event was really well done. I plan on coming back next year to get an even better time! Thanks to all who donated to my JDRF...
My name is Andrew Tongen, and I live in Minneapolis, MN with my wife Grethe and my dog Obi.
I'm a software engineer at Drip ECRM. I enjoy building things for the web.