Blog – Jeff Hegeman

Linux Desktop Distro Hopping

Apr 9th 2024Nov 13th 2021 by jhegeman2

This post is largely for my own benefit so I can remember what was good and bad about each, but I am writing this with a little more context so it may be helpful to someone else. What is Linux Linux is an Operating System. Well, technically GNU/Linux is the OS and Linux is the … Read more

Tripped Up By Composer

Oct 18th 2021 by jhegeman2

I recently started another stint of learning. I will be starting some Gutenberg block development soon, so I wanted to research it and other things that can help on my journey. A little WP-CLI here, a little NPM there, you get the picture. Since composer has come up a couple times, I decided to take … Read more

Power Query – An Amazing Tool Built Into Excel

Sep 18th 2021 by jhegeman2

I recently started learning about Tableau, a business intelligence (BI) tool that helps you visualize data. I won’t get too deep into that, but it is relevant to how I stumbled upon Power Query, and may help me convey what it does. If you spend time adjusting spreadsheets, you need to learn Power Query. It … Read more

First Post… hi

Oct 14th 2016 by jhegeman2

Welcome to my new blog! My first exposure to WordPress was in 2013 when my PHP 2 group at WCTC created a WordPress site for Pink Banana Theater in Milwaukee. I hadn’t touched it much until I started working for UWSA earlier this year. I now spend a lot of time maintaining the backend code … Read more

Making Birdie Bread Again

Jun 26th 2016 by jhegeman2

Every time I go to make birdie bread, I can’t seem to find the recipe. I feel like this is a good place to keep it. If you have a little feathered friend, give it a try.

Birdie Bread

Making Birdie Bread

Apr 10th 2016 by jhegeman2

I’m making Oliver birdie bread today.

Peep

Mar 13th 2016 by jhegeman2

Ollie is almost a year old now. He is full grown, and not much bigger than a Peep.

Ollie goes to the vet…Again

Sep 30th 2015 by jhegeman2

Ollie went to the vet again today. He was bleeding again. The vet found 3 broken blood feathers that needed to be pulled, and a couple of new ones coming in right next to them. Here you can see the three holes from the pulled feathers, and the new ones right above it. It looks … Read more

Uh oh…

Sep 18th 2015 by jhegeman2

Oliver found his way to the vet today. He managed to break one of his blood feathers and was bleeding like a crazy man. Thankfully we got that taken care of….

Exploring?

Aug 18th 2015 by jhegeman2

This bird decided to go into my shirt today