https://chrispeoples.com/Recent content on Chris PeoplesHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usThu, 05 Mar 2026 20:40:51 +0000https://chrispeoples.com/links/dentata/Thu, 05 Mar 2026 20:40:51 +0000https://chrispeoples.com/links/dentata/I was particularly taken by this piece from Heydon Pickering’s generative art gallery.https://chrispeoples.com/post/wordle-1500/Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://chrispeoples.com/post/wordle-1500/Another 500 games of Wordle played since 1000. During that time my longest streak ended, and apparently I’ve gotten worse because my average score has gone down. Let’s take a peak at the numbers. Record: 1496 of 1500 (99.7%) Average Guess: 3.79 Only One Guess Needed: #319, May 22, 2022 Win Streaks: 95: January 13 - April 18, 2022 176: April 20 - October 14, 2022 190: October 16, 2022 - April 24, 2023 694: April 26, 2023 - March 19, 2025 338: March 21, 2025 - ?https://chrispeoples.com/post/whats-in-a-name-challenge-2026/Mon, 09 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://chrispeoples.com/post/whats-in-a-name-challenge-2026/I had a fun time taking on the What’s in a Name? 2025 Challenge, so let’s run it back! The challenge is once again being hosted by Andrea at Carolina Book Nook and runs from January 1, 2026 to December 31, 2026. The rules are simple: Read a book in any format (hard copy, ebook, audio) with a title that fits into each category.https://chrispeoples.com/post/perpetual-page-turner-survey-2025/Sat, 07 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://chrispeoples.com/post/perpetual-page-turner-survey-2025/I found this fun end of year reading survey from Perpetual Page Turner and thought I’d fill it out. Here we go! Reading Stats Number of Books You Read 40 Number of Re-Reads 0 Genre You Read The Most From Science Fiction Best in Books Best Book You Read In 2025?https://chrispeoples.com/links/broken-heart/Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://chrispeoples.com/links/broken-heart/An interesting bug fixing tale.https://chrispeoples.com/links/comicss-webdev-conspiracy/Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://chrispeoples.com/links/comicss-webdev-conspiracy/Vercel is slowly being the placed by a time traveler stuck in Internet Explorer 6.https://chrispeoples.com/post/2025-year-in-review/Mon, 02 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://chrispeoples.com/post/2025-year-in-review/2025 was a year like any other. I’m terrible at writing these retrospectives, hence why it’s already February and I’m just now publishing it. Which is worse, posting a year in review in two a month after the year starts, or sending out the yearly wrapped/recap/some-other-fancy-name two months before the year even ends?https://chrispeoples.com/links/1000-poker-hands/Tue, 23 Dec 2025 14:00:07 -0800https://chrispeoples.com/links/1000-poker-hands/Reilly Chase played 1,000 hands of online poker, used PokerTracker4 to analyze those hands, then built this pretty neat site to review the results.https://chrispeoples.com/links/nicest-thing/Thu, 18 Dec 2025 14:37:00 -0800https://chrispeoples.com/links/nicest-thing/Hacker News users share stories about the nicest thing a stranger has ever done for them.https://chrispeoples.com/post/whats-in-a-name-challenge-2025/Sat, 06 Dec 2025 22:44:21 -0800https://chrispeoples.com/post/whats-in-a-name-challenge-2025/I enjoy a good book challenge but some of them are just too daunting (I’m looking at you, r/fantasy). Fortunately this year I found the What’s in a Name Challenge, where each book title must contain the prompt. The challenge is hosted by Andrea at Carolina Book Nook and runs from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2025.https://chrispeoples.com/links/bourdains-lost-lists/Sat, 29 Nov 2025 12:36:19 -0800https://chrispeoples.com/links/bourdains-lost-lists/A partial archive of Anthony Bourdain’s lists published to the now-defunct li.st website.https://chrispeoples.com/links/secret-history-of-indian-science-fiction/Tue, 25 Nov 2025 10:28:00 -0800https://chrispeoples.com/links/secret-history-of-indian-science-fiction/A gorgeously constructed article about the history of science fiction in India.https://chrispeoples.com/links/infinite-craft/Wed, 19 Nov 2025 21:02:30 -0800https://chrispeoples.com/links/infinite-craft/My first true introduction to the crafting video game mechanic. Hours of fun.https://chrispeoples.com/post/i-started-a-link-blog/Wed, 19 Nov 2025 19:56:30 -0800https://chrispeoples.com/post/i-started-a-link-blog/I don’t tweet anymore, I’ve yet to join Threads or Bluesky, and I never really got into Mastodon. You would think that might lead to more blogging, but I don’t often find myself with something significant or coherent enough to share in a blog post. I do, however, want a place to share things that I find fun and interesting on the internet, with perhaps a short note or highlight from them, so here it is: my very own link blog!https://chrispeoples.com/links/localghost/Sun, 09 Nov 2025 10:19:57 -0800https://chrispeoples.com/links/localghost/What a lovely site by Sophie which harkens back to the internet of old.https://chrispeoples.com/links/how-to-lead/Sun, 02 Nov 2025 18:42:32 -0800https://chrispeoples.com/links/how-to-lead/Ibrahim Diallo on leadership: By definition, leading is knowing the way forward. But in reality, in a room full of experts, pretending to know everything makes you look like an idiot. Instead, “I don’t know, but let’s figure it out” becomes a superpower. It gives your experts permission to share uncertainty.https://chrispeoples.com/links/just-one-line/Sat, 11 Oct 2025 12:28:47 -0800https://chrispeoples.com/links/just-one-line/The next time you hear “it’s just one line” pause for a moment. Just one line for who? You the developer to write? Future you (or your teammates) to debug and maintain? Or the end-user to download, parse, and execute?https://chrispeoples.com/post/game-of-crowns-10-seconds/Sat, 12 Jul 2025 14:47:59 -0700https://chrispeoples.com/post/game-of-crowns-10-seconds/I shocked myself by solving a Game of Crowns puzzle in only ten seconds! #GameOfCrowns 👑 228 ⏳ 00:10 🟥 0 ✨ 0 AutoX - ✅ Clicks - 14 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩https://chrispeoples.com/post/the-ephemerality-of-the-web/Sat, 24 May 2025 16:17:59 -0700https://chrispeoples.com/post/the-ephemerality-of-the-web/This week, two services that I’ve used for years announced that they will enter the web’s graveyard: Pocket and Glitch. The news about Pocket hit me hard. I purchased Pocket when it was known as Read It Later, way back in March 2011 (and I was probably a free user well before that).https://chrispeoples.com/post/comparing-nba-distance-data-over-10-years/Sat, 22 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://chrispeoples.com/post/comparing-nba-distance-data-over-10-years/When Los Angeles Lakers head coach JJ Redick says that today’s game features much more movement than eras past, is it just conjecture or can it be quantified by data?https://chrispeoples.com/post/the-streak-is-over/Thu, 20 Mar 2025 08:10:09 -0700https://chrispeoples.com/post/the-streak-is-over/The end my nearly two year Wordle streak.https://chrispeoples.com/post/2024-year-in-review/Sun, 26 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://chrispeoples.com/post/2024-year-in-review/Jonathan Snook opened his 2024 recap post musing, Sometimes I wonder if doing these recap posts at this point are masturbatory. It’s a great opening and the statement is not without truth. His recaps are a bit more introspective than mine, where I just compile my consumption habits for the previous year, and who else is really interested in that besides me?https://chrispeoples.com/post/wordle-1000/Sat, 19 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://chrispeoples.com/post/wordle-1000/Every morning since January 13, 2022, I’ve faithfully done the same thing: played the daily Wordle. I never expected that I would continue that habit for over 1000 days, but here we are. It’s become a daily ritual because it combines two of my favorite things: word games and puzzles. Since I also love numbers and statistics, I started tracking my results years ago, and I thought I’d share some fun facts about game play now that I’ve eclipsed 1000 games.https://chrispeoples.com/post/2023-r-fantasy-bingo/Sat, 13 Apr 2024 08:46:46 -0700https://chrispeoples.com/post/2023-r-fantasy-bingo/Every year, the r/Fantasy subreddit issues a challenge: complete a bingo card filled with various science fiction and fantasy topics on it. As you can see, the topics are varied, but that’s the point. The core of this challenge is encouraging readers to step out of their comfort zones, discover amazing new reads, and motivate everyone to keep up on their reading throughout the year.https://chrispeoples.com/post/2023-year-in-review/Sun, 21 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://chrispeoples.com/post/2023-year-in-review/It’s been far too long since I’ve done a personal year in review. Let’s take a look back at what I read, listened to, and watched in 2023. Reading I read forty-three books in 2023! That’s a total of 13,759 pages, with an average book length of 320 pages. The shortest book was 21 pages (Clap Back, by Nalo Hopkinson), while the longest book was 608 pages (Death’s End, by Cixin Liu).https://chrispeoples.com/post/new-year-new-look/Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://chrispeoples.com/post/new-year-new-look/Hello, 2023! I thought I’d ring in the new year by trying out a darker theme for the blog. I’m liking it so far. I may eventually add support for the CSS media feature prefers-color-scheme so people can choose between light and dark mode.https://chrispeoples.com/post/easy-diffs/Sun, 03 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://chrispeoples.com/post/easy-diffs/Jim Nielsen asked the following question on Twitter: “I’ve used the online diff checker a few times, but does anybody know of or use a simple utility for Mac that will do this? Example. Copy/paste text to doc 1. Copy paste text to doc 2. Then say “diff these two” without having to check into git etc.https://chrispeoples.com/post/solve-a-rubiks-cube/Sun, 08 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://chrispeoples.com/post/solve-a-rubiks-cube/Giovanni Contardi shared this great video on how to solve a Rubik’s Cube. It is far and away the easiest beginner’s method I have ever seen. Most beginner methods still require you to memorize tons of algorithms, but with Giovanni’s method you only need to remember two! Despite it’s simplicity, there are still lot of steps to remember and it’s easy to forget the order of execution without watching the whole video again, so I thought I’d convert the stickier parts into cube notation.https://chrispeoples.com/post/importance-of-game-4/Sun, 30 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://chrispeoples.com/post/importance-of-game-4/Originally published at Medium on April 29, 2013. I still find it extremely relevant so I’m reposting it here. I’m going to make this short and sweet. Over the next several weeks, you’ll hear several smart people talk about how critical Game 5 is of a 7-game series. After all, in a series that’s tied 2-2, the team who wins Game 5 takes commanding control of the series.https://chrispeoples.com/post/womens-history-month-2021/Wed, 07 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://chrispeoples.com/post/womens-history-month-2021/I don’t read enough books written by women. Since I started keeping track of what I read, only 33% of the 180 different authors I’ve read are women. That’s a problem. I’ll be making a more concerted effort to read books by women from now on, starting with Women’s History Month, where I read books exclusively by women.https://chrispeoples.com/post/black-history-month-2021/Sun, 28 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://chrispeoples.com/post/black-history-month-2021/Continuing the tradition I started last year, I celebrated Black History Month by reading black authors. Here are those books I read along with some of my favorite passages from them. Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead Emergency Skin by N.K. Jemisin How Long ’til Black Future Month? by N.K. Jemisin My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite Everywhere You Don’t Belong by Gabriel Bump Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead We must believe in our souls that we are somebody, that we are significant, that we are worthful, and we must walk the streets of life every day with this sense of dignity and this sense of somebody-ness.https://chrispeoples.com/post/2020-year-in-review/Sun, 17 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://chrispeoples.com/post/2020-year-in-review/2020 was quite a year, wasn’t it? Last year’s roller coaster both thrilled and nauseated me, and at different times made me happy, sad, depressed, confused, excited, fulfilled, overjoyed, and despaired. Is that enough adjectives? Those will have to do, because 2020 brought on so many different emotions that my vocabulary is not large enough to describe it.https://chrispeoples.com/post/hosting-trivia-night-using-kahoot-zoom/Wed, 20 May 2020 16:12:07 -0700https://chrispeoples.com/post/hosting-trivia-night-using-kahoot-zoom/One way that I’ve been able to stay connected with family during the quarantine is by hosting a semi-regular trivia night. It’s been a lot of fun so I thought I’d share my setup. Kahoot To facilitate the trivia part of trivia night, I use Kahoot. Kahoot is a platform for hosting games with questions.https://chrispeoples.com/post/what-ive-been-reading-during-the-pandemic/Sat, 09 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://chrispeoples.com/post/what-ive-been-reading-during-the-pandemic/Reading is one of my favorite pastimes, and the pandemic hasn’t stopped my appetite for books. I have, however, steered clear of anything dystopian or post-apocalyptic, because who wants to read about that at a time like this! Instead, I’ve taken in the rare historical fiction novel along with the usual sci-fi and mystery/thriller books.https://chrispeoples.com/post/continuous-deployment-hugo-ftp-github-actions/Mon, 06 Apr 2020 17:15:07 -0700https://chrispeoples.com/post/continuous-deployment-hugo-ftp-github-actions/After I migrated my website to Hugo, I needed a way to deploy the site to my host without manually FTPing files every time I make change. Netlify has support for static site hosting and continuous deployment, but I wasn’t looking to switch hosts. Previously I used AppVeyor to deploy, but this time I decided to use GitHub Actions to automate building and deploying the site whenever I push changes to master.https://chrispeoples.com/post/migrating-to-hugo/Tue, 31 Mar 2020 12:12:25 -0700https://chrispeoples.com/post/migrating-to-hugo/I started using a static site generator for my personal site back in 2018. I was looking for a more lightweight platform than Wordpress, and SSG’s were a great alternative. Especially since they fit great into CI/CD workflows. I selected Wyam because it’s written in C# and used Razor for it’s templating syntax, which made my transition easier since I’m already familiar with both of those.https://chrispeoples.com/post/black-history-month/Fri, 28 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://chrispeoples.com/post/black-history-month/I decided to celebrate this Black History Month by reading only black authors. I even managed to mix in some non-fiction, a rarity for me. I thought it’d be fun to share my reading list along with my highlighted passages. We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Akata Warrior by Nnedi Okorafor Binti by Nnedi Okorafor The Beautiful Struggle by Ta-Nehisi Coates We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie The language of marriage is often a language of ownership, not a language of partnership.https://chrispeoples.com/post/ripmamba/Tue, 28 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://chrispeoples.com/post/ripmamba/Kobe Bean Bryant. August 23, 1978 - January 26, 2020. My mind has been all over the place since Kobe’s tragic death. I’ve been thinking about mortality, fatherhood, legacy, basketball, grief, depression, happiness, forgiveness, appreciation, family, friendship…as I said, all over the place. As I’ve been reading and listening to people speak about Kobe’s career, I found my thought’s in an interesting place: The Wise Man’s Fear.https://chrispeoples.com/post/2019-music-review/Fri, 10 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://chrispeoples.com/post/2019-music-review/Music was a bit of a mixed bag for me in 2019. I listened to less music than usual because my commute was reduced drastically, so I had less time to check out new music and rediscover old favorites. However, music brought me one of proudest moments of the year when my daughter randomly said to me, “I need to listen to more Rapsody.https://chrispeoples.com/post/2019-reading-review/Tue, 31 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://chrispeoples.com/post/2019-reading-review/2019 was quite a year of reading for me. I easily completed my Goodreads Reading Challenge by reading 34 books, which beat my previous record of 33 books in 2018. The Books All the books I read in 2019, in order of date read: Nomad, Matthew Mather Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Batman: Nightwalker, Marie Lu Sanctuary, Matthew Mather The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead Way Station, Clifford D.https://chrispeoples.com/post/2010s-favorites/Mon, 30 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://chrispeoples.com/post/2010s-favorites/As the decade draws to a close, I thought I’d make a list of some of my favorite books, albums, and movies released or published in the 2010s. For when the dog bites. And the bee stings. In no particular order: Books Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates The Sellout, Paul Beatty The Storied Life of A.https://chrispeoples.com/post/unpopular-positive-opinion-challenge/Fri, 20 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://chrispeoples.com/post/unpopular-positive-opinion-challenge/From xkcd.com: Challenge accepted, Randall! I use Trakt to keep track and rate all of the movies I watch. Fortunately, Trakt provides an API so that I can programmatically retrieve all of my ratings. The OMDb API includes Rotten Tomatoes ratings, so I was able write a small C# console application to compare my ratings of 8 or greater to Rotten Tomatoes.https://chrispeoples.com/post/summer-reading-2019/Wed, 14 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://chrispeoples.com/post/summer-reading-2019/Barack Obama shared his summer reading list (see below), and he’s inspired me to share mine. Here are the books I’ve read so far this summer: Akata Witch, Nnedi Okorafor The Last Firewall, William Hertling Zeus is Undead: This One Has Zombies, Michael G. Munz Superman: Dawnbreaker, Matt de la Pena The Sellout, Paul Beatty The Robots of Dawn, Isaac Asimov The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde Stories of Your Life and Others, Ted Chiang View this post on Instagram It's August, so I wanted to let you know about a few books I've been reading this summer, in case you're looking for some suggestions.https://chrispeoples.com/post/2018-reading-challenge/Wed, 26 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://chrispeoples.com/post/2018-reading-challenge/Once again I completed Goodreads Reading Challenge. My goal for 2018 was 15 books, and I read 33! A total of 11,211 pages. I’ve done the challenge for the last five years and have completed my goal each year. I think it’s time I raise the bar for 2019! Books I read in 2018 American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot, Craig Ferguson Origin, Dan Brown The Book Thief, Markus Zusak Molly’s Game, Molly Bloom American Assassin, Vince Flynn Flygirl, Sherri L.https://chrispeoples.com/post/welcome/Sun, 01 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://chrispeoples.com/post/welcome/Writing doesn’t come easy for me, but in process of redoing my site, it seems that I’ve committed to blogging. I don’t know what I’ll write about, but I probably won’t stick to one topic. Let’s see how this goes!https://chrispeoples.com/about/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://chrispeoples.com/about/I’m Chris Peoples, but hopefully you knew that already. I like to build web-based tools and applications that help make peoples lives easier. My primary weapons are .NET, C#, SQL Server, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Take a gander at my scant few public projects. When I’m not working, I’m a parent, former podcaster, poker player, and alliteration afficianado.https://chrispeoples.com/archives/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://chrispeoples.com/archives/https://chrispeoples.com/now/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://chrispeoples.com/now/(I’ve been inspired by Derek Sivers and the /now page movement to share what’s currently going in my life.) Puzzles I’ve become addicted to star battle type puzzles. It began with LinkedIn Queens, progressed to Game of Crowns, and coalesced at Star Battle Baron. The amount of daily puzzles that I play has grown to epic proportion.https://chrispeoples.com/projects/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://chrispeoples.com/projects/Lawler’s Law Tracker Website I love useless statistics, and Lawler’s Law is one of the best. If you ever wanted to know how often an NBA team wins a game when it scores 100 before its opponent, now you can! MarTheGamerBot Website A Twitch bot for my favorite streamer, MarTheGamerMom. The bot comes with a pokemon minigame, a play with viewers queue, and a Rocket League rank checker.https://chrispeoples.com/tags/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://chrispeoples.com/tags/