Matt Edwards

Went camping last weekend! Location was Timberline Campground out in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey. The Pine Barrens has been a favorite spot this summer since we picked up a few low-end Pelican kayaks, because the rivers in that region are a lot of fun to float down. Our friends enjoy stand up paddle-boarding, so we all converged on the campsite with kayaks and boards in tow. The initial expectation was to put them out on the “lake” at the campsite…but it turned out to be a bit more of a tiny pond than a real lake. ...

This post is my first published using GitHub Actions. It was remarkably easy to setup, and now the instant I write a new post and push to main, I’ll be seeing it on here within 30 seconds. Below I’ll explain how I got this working. Laying the Groundwork The first step is ensuring the hugo site can be deployed somewhere. In my case, it’s a home server and the stack is: ...

Welcome! This is a new cut of mattedwards.org, built using the static site generator hugo. I had been experimenting with static site generation on-and-off for the past eight months; and I finally set aside the time to put this new site together. Static site generation has been on my mind since the Stacktrace podcast introduced it to me via John Sundell’s Publish, which is built using Swift. The simplicity of a website built using nothing but HTML and CSS is awesome (plus a tiny bit of Javascript which is baked into the theme but which I plan to remove). Combined with my fascination around the Go language, I settled on using Hugo. ...

First day of vacation!...

Some favorite photos from the first two days of our adventure. × 1 / 17 2 / 17 3 / 17 4 / 17 5 / 17 6 / 17 7 / 17 8 / 17 9 / 17 10 / 17 11 / 17 12 / 17 13 / 17 14 / 17 15 / 17 16 / 17 17 / 17 ❮ ❯ ...

Having tried most of them, the best would be…none of the locals. Oops! Dogwood Hops and Crops was the best, for their selection of NC beers and 30% discount on takeout can purchases. Runner up might be Incendiary Brewing, but it was quite the gap between Dogwood and them. The rest of the contenders in this town were just so-so. Shame! But they’ve got tough competition against the likes of Burial and others. ...

Great day to be outdoors. Made a quick video of clips and photos I captured during the ride. ...

From Weather NJ: Thursday (March 11) high temperatures should reach well into the 60s again away from the ocean. This day probably has the best chance for interior CNJ/SNJ to climb into the 70s. Places like Cape May and nearby surrounding coastlines could again hang in the 50s. Skies should be mostly sunny. Winds should be light out of the S/SW. Overnight lows should struggle to dip below 50 statewide. Yup, I’m heading out for a bike ride this Thursday. 🚴‍♂️ ...

From 5 February 2021: Okay let’s do payment for order flow again, because people are talking about it and that always stresses me out. Here’s an intuitive description of how it works. A million people come to a broker to trade GameStop Corp. stock. Half of them want to buy shares, half of them want to sell shares. One share each, all using market orders, all at precisely the same time. The stock exchange has half a million shares of GameStop available for sale at $58.25, and orders to buy half a million shares for $58. The broker could send all of its customers’ orders to the stock exchange, where the buy orders would be filled at $58.25 and the sell orders would be filled at $58; the broker would pay the exchange a small fee for executing these orders. ...

Bit late on this one. ...