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I'm Eph Baum
I play make pretend as a software engineer. This is my blog where I talk to myself to answer my own questions about tech, engineering, and working with people.
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Migrating from Ghost CMS to Astro: A Complete Journey
The complete 2-year journey of migrating from Ghost CMS to Astro—from initial script development in October 2023 to final completion in October 2025. Documents the blog's 11-year evolution, custom backup conversion script, image restoration process, and the intensive 4-day development sprint. Includes honest insights about how a few days of actual work got spread across two years due to life priorities.
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50 Stars - Puzzle Solver (of Little Renown)
From coding puzzle dropout to 50-star champion—discover how AI became the ultimate coding partner for completing Advent of Code 2023. A celebration of persistence, imposter syndrome, and the surprising ways generative AI can help you level up your problem-solving game.
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Don't Trust AI - An Advent of Code Tale
When AI gives you a 'helpful' code suggestion that breaks your Advent of Code solution—trust but verify. A cautionary tale about the perils of blindly accepting AI-generated code, complete with debugging war stories and lessons learned from the 2023 coding challenge.
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Condoning Another Pi Day
When pie for breakfast, lunch, and dinner isn't enough—discover why 11/24 is secretly another Pi Day hiding in the infinite digits of π. A mathematical adventure proving that every day can be a celebration of both dessert and irrational numbers.
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ANSI Terminal Colors
Stop googling terminal color codes every time you want to add some flair to your scripts. This comprehensive ANSI color reference has everything you need—from basic 16 colors to the full 256-color palette—with visual swatches and hex codes to make your terminal pop.
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WTF is Idiomatic
Ever been told your code isn't 'idiomatic' and wondered what that even means? This quick explainer breaks down idiomatic vs non-idiomatic code with real Elixir examples—because writing Python in Elixir syntax just doesn't cut it.