https://kevinbarroga.me/post/ Recent content in Posts on kevinbarroga.me Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://kevinbarroga.me/post/hacienda-hearts/ Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://kevinbarroga.me/post/hacienda-hearts/ I recently spent some time in Mérida, but the real highlight of the trip wasn't the city's colonial architecture, like the iconic Plaza Grande, it was a visit to Beach Dog Rescue. My wife has been friends with Heather, one of the founders, since they were kids, so we headed out into the Yucatan jungle to see the operation she and her husband Gil have built. They run a 350-year-old off grid hacienda that serves as a sanctuary for street dogs. https://kevinbarroga.me/post/heavy-club-steel-mace-training-pt-3/ Mon, 30 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://kevinbarroga.me/post/heavy-club-steel-mace-training-pt-3/ New Equipment Adex Arc: I recently picked up the Adex Arc to bridge a gap in my heavy club and mace training. What's really cool about it is that the unique handle length generates some serious mace-like torque, even when I'm using it for club movements. Plus, it's still short enough that I don't have to worry about smashing my feet! I've also found that you can use 3D-printed Adjusta-Bell spacers to extend the Arc to a standard mace length, which is a plus. https://kevinbarroga.me/post/heavy-club-steel-mace-training-pt-2/ Thu, 25 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://kevinbarroga.me/post/heavy-club-steel-mace-training-pt-2/ Equipment Adex Club: Adex developed an adjustable club that allows you to scale the weight from 4-5lbs to 25-27lbs depending on the club handle. Its great if you don't have the space for multiple heavy clubs sets and easy to take with you while traveling. 1 x Wildman Handle (1.4” diameter) 1 x Fat Handle (1.2” diameter) 1 x 1.25lbs Weight 2 x 2.5lbs Weights 6 x 5lbs Weights Steel Mace: https://kevinbarroga.me/post/heavy-club-steel-mace-training/ Tue, 25 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://kevinbarroga.me/post/heavy-club-steel-mace-training/ About a year and half ago I got into heavy club and steel mace(gada) training which is a form of training that utilizes weighted levers. I find it fun but also challenging! Combined with kettlebells you can have a full body strength and conditioning program. Will update post with equipment and training schedule… https://kevinbarroga.me/post/moderation-march-2023/ Thu, 20 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://kevinbarroga.me/post/moderation-march-2023/ Completed another sober month from 2023-03-20 (After St. Patrick's weekend) to 2023-04-20. Trying these bourbons over the weekend: Wild Turkey Rare Breed (116.8 Proof) Four Roses Small Batch (40 proof) Redemption High Rye Single Barrel Select (105 Proof) https://kevinbarroga.me/post/ponytailpalm/ Sun, 29 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://kevinbarroga.me/post/ponytailpalm/ Created ponytailpalm.pics, a gallery site dedicated to pics of Ponytail Palms around Hawaii! I became fond of the palm tree after seeing a bunch of them when taking the doggies on a walk. https://kevinbarroga.me/post/cockpunch-ntfs/ Mon, 09 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://kevinbarroga.me/post/cockpunch-ntfs/ Cockpunch fellas Cock of “Shaman” clan member of @HouseJaqua Cock of “Master of Blade” member clan of @HouseAmekawa AI generated PFP in the style of Van Gogh https://kevinbarroga.me/post/sha256-algorithm/ Tue, 08 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://kevinbarroga.me/post/sha256-algorithm/ Came across a pretty cool site on Hacker News that visually goes through the SHA-256 algorithm step-by-step: SHA-256 Visualized This is the hash function Bitcoin uses to generate addresses because the total combinations of hashes that can be uniquely generated is insanley large. Almost impossible to create the same address. The odds are like picking an atom in the visible unverse, then someone else picking that same atom. You have better odds seeing your favorite sports team win a championship in your lifetime. https://kevinbarroga.me/post/analyzing-amazon-data-2021-second-half/ Thu, 06 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://kevinbarroga.me/post/analyzing-amazon-data-2021-second-half/ Analyzed my amazon purchases for the 2nd half of 2021. Through the analysis I discovered: The total amount I've spent on Amazon during the past 6 months. Spending trends by product category and date visualized in a bar graph. Total $1837.71 Average $45.94 Median $32.89 Max $183.16 Items by Category: https://kevinbarroga.me/post/first-foray-into-nfts/ Sun, 12 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://kevinbarroga.me/post/first-foray-into-nfts/ Been thinking about getting into the NFT space… These are my first NFTs purchased from art blocks: Coquina #351 • Jacob Gold Rotae #399 • Nadieh Bremer Spiromorphs #58 • SAB https://kevinbarroga.me/post/sober-october-2021/ Thu, 07 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://kevinbarroga.me/post/sober-october-2021/ Update: 2021-10-27 Great Success! Full 30 day Sober October complete! Celebrating with: Boulevard Brewing - Magic Drips Imperial Stout w/ Colombian Coffee Charles Ellner - Carte Blanche Brut Aberlour A'Bunadh Start Date: 2021-09-27 Success update to come in 3 weeks…sooner if fail :( https://kevinbarroga.me/post/analyzing-amazon-data-2021-first-half/ Fri, 09 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://kevinbarroga.me/post/analyzing-amazon-data-2021-first-half/ Analyzed my amazon purchases for the 1st half of 2021. Through the analysis I discovered: The total amount I've spent on Amazon during the past 6 months. Spending trends by product category and date visualized in a bar graph. Total $1487.55 Average $49.59 Median $33.37 Max $178.00 Items by Category: https://kevinbarroga.me/post/export-pocket-list-to-csv/ Mon, 01 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://kevinbarroga.me/post/export-pocket-list-to-csv/ My Export Pocket Data script is a quick and dirty script to export your Pocket list to JSON format. If you are looking for a nicer script to export pocket data to CSV format I came across Chris Crawford’s medium post titled Export Your Pocket Bookmarks to CSV. https://kevinbarroga.me/post/analyzing-amazon-data-covid-edition-pt-2/ Sat, 02 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://kevinbarroga.me/post/analyzing-amazon-data-covid-edition-pt-2/ Analyzed my amazon purchases for the 2nd half of 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. Through the analysis I discovered: The total amount I've spent on Amazon during the past 6 months. Spending trends by product category and date visualized in a bar graph. Total $1231.18 Average $53.53 Median $36.19 Max $122.78 Items by Category: https://kevinbarroga.me/post/analyzing-amazon-data-covid-edition/ Sat, 01 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://kevinbarroga.me/post/analyzing-amazon-data-covid-edition/ Analyzed my amazon purchases for the past 6 months during the COVID-19 lock down. Through the analysis I discovered: The total amount I've spent on Amazon during the past 6 months. Spending trends by product category and date visualized in a bar graph. Total $2320.71 Average $48.35 Median $35.86 Max $157.06 Items by Category: https://kevinbarroga.me/post/google-location-history-heatmap/ Sat, 01 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://kevinbarroga.me/post/google-location-history-heatmap/ Python script to generate a geo heatmap with Google Location History data. Hawaii: Kauai: Oahu: Maui County: North America: New Zealand North Island: World: Credit to luka1199 https://kevinbarroga.me/post/analyzing-amazon-data/ Wed, 05 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://kevinbarroga.me/post/analyzing-amazon-data/ Always wondered how much I've spend on Amazon over the years. Downloaded the past 10 years of Amazon data and analyzed the data with some python programming on JupyterLab. Through the analysis I discovered: The total amount I've spent on Amazon. My most expensive order, my average and median order totals. Various spending trends visualized in a bar graph. Total $12069. https://kevinbarroga.me/post/dry-january-2020/ Sun, 02 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://kevinbarroga.me/post/dry-january-2020/ Update: February 2, 2020 Pre-Superbowl hike at Makapu‘u Point Lighthouse for sunrise to celebrate the end of Dry January: Celebratory drink to the end of Dry January: Favorite scotch for the game, Lagavulin: Update: 2020-22-02 Broke dry streak this past weekend due to host duties… Original Date: 2020-01-02 Starting 2020 on a good note! Day Countdown: 31 30 29 28 27 26 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 https://kevinbarroga.me/post/new-zealand-vacation/ Sun, 21 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://kevinbarroga.me/post/new-zealand-vacation/ Itinerary with the help of TripAdvisor Day 1 - Auckland – Waiheke Island ferry, wine tour Day 2 - Whitianga – 3 hour drive Coromandel peninsula to Airbnbin Whitianga Day 3 – Cathedral cave – Hot water beach, low tide at 3:45 PM Day 4 - Rotorua – 4 hour drive to Rotorua – Hell's gate Geothermal park and Mud Bath Spa Day 5 – Whakarewarewa - The Living Maori Village https://kevinbarroga.me/post/odds-table/ Thu, 04 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://kevinbarroga.me/post/odds-table/ Posting for quick reference American  Decimal  Implied Probability  1000 11.00 9.09 900 10.00 10.00 800 9.00 11.11 700 8.00 12.50 600 7.00 14.29 500 6.00 16.67 400 5.00 20.00 300 4.00 25.00 200 3.00 33.33 190 2.90 34.48 180 2. https://kevinbarroga.me/post/sober-january/ Sun, 03 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://kevinbarroga.me/post/sober-january/ Update: February 3, 2019 Planned Pre-Superbowl hike at Koko head and celebrating the end of Sober January was foiled due to horrible trail conditions. I can't believe how badly eroded the trail has gotten in the past year. Took an awesome pic though: First drink to celebrate the end of Sober January: Scotch for the game: Original Date: 2019-01-03 Starting off the new year on a good note. No alcohol unitl Super Bowl LIII Sunday, February 3rd. https://kevinbarroga.me/post/breaking-bread/ Mon, 07 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://kevinbarroga.me/post/breaking-bread/ Made bread for the first time following this recipe. Very easy for my first time, although I had some issues shaping it into a round loaf due to sticky dough. Not sure if it was suppose to be that sticky… It came out good though! The recipe called for a dutch oven which I did not have so I used the largest pot I had with a lid. https://kevinbarroga.me/post/f1-usgp-cota/ Thu, 25 Oct 2018 04:42:52 -1000 https://kevinbarroga.me/post/f1-usgp-cota/ Had an awesome experience watching my first Formula 1 race on the 21 October weekend. The race was held at the Circuit of The Americas just outside of downtown Austin. #f1 #usgp #cota #circutoftheamericas #austin #formula4 https://www.instagram.com/p/BpPU6BmnlgldbYSICfA1zNl_iRCtzYyONHaKUM0/ Formula 1 was the main purpose of the Austin trip but here are other things I did: – Formula 4 – San Antonio Riverwalk – Rode my first roller coaster at Six Flags in San Antonio https://kevinbarroga.me/post/second-round-of-golf/ Tue, 04 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://kevinbarroga.me/post/second-round-of-golf/ Second round of golf today at the Waikele. Felt my driving was a bit better, putting needs more work. Did not keep score. https://kevinbarroga.me/post/first-round-of-golf/ Fri, 17 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://kevinbarroga.me/post/first-round-of-golf/ Played my first round of 18 hole golf today at the Waikele Golf Club. Very fun! Would like to improve my swing before my next game. https://kevinbarroga.me/post/install-firefox-developer-edition/ Thu, 26 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://kevinbarroga.me/post/install-firefox-developer-edition/ Firefox Developer Edition includes latest Developer Tools Step 1. Download Firefox Quantum: Developer Edition Download Firefox Developer Edition. Step 2. Extract files Extract tar.bz2 file: tar -xvjf firefox-X.X.tar.bz2 Step 3. Move firefox to suitable location Move the extracted firefox folder to /opt/firefox-dev directory: sudo mv firefox /opt/firefox-dev Step 4. Add .desktop file Created a .desktop file .local/share/applications/firefox-developer.desktop with the contents below: [Desktop Entry] Version=1.0 Name=Firefox Developer Edition Comment=Firefox Aurora with Developer tools GenericName=Web Browser Keywords=Internet;WWW;Browser;Web;Explorer Exec=/opt/firefox-dev/firefox %u Terminal=false X-MultipleArgs=false Type=Application Icon=/opt/firefox-dev/browser/chrome/icons/default/default128. https://kevinbarroga.me/post/swim-log/ Sun, 08 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://kevinbarroga.me/post/swim-log/ Last day of swimming class was on July 5th. We swam with our instructor and a few experienced swimmers to the second buoy at Ala Moana beach, which seemed at the time a far distance for a beginner like me, but it wasn't too bad it was actually nice and enjoyable. I'll continue to swim 2-3 days a week and start logging my swims here just like I do with my workouts and runs (if I ever start running again). https://kevinbarroga.me/post/training-log-update/ Fri, 08 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://kevinbarroga.me/post/training-log-update/ I haven't been able to do my kettlebell workouts since Memorial Day Holiday because I accidentally stepped on hot coals on the beach and this was the result of it: Hobbled on crutches for a week which was very frustrating. Finally healing: Recently started a beginner swim class which I am really enjoying! If at the end of the course I feel confident to have swim sessions I will add the sessions to my training log. https://kevinbarroga.me/post/hawaii-ikea-shipping-haul2hi/ Thu, 03 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://kevinbarroga.me/post/hawaii-ikea-shipping-haul2hi/ Along with my new PC desktop I purchased a new IKEA desk! After almost 10 years of having a small cheapo desk from Walmart, I've finally upgraded to a very nice butcher block type desk from IKEA! IKEA does not have any stores in Hawaii, so I did some research and found a small company in downtown Honolulu haul2hi. After placing my order, it took about two weeks from the shipment deadline date that was stated on the site for my order to come in. https://kevinbarroga.me/post/new-desktop-build/ Sun, 29 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://kevinbarroga.me/post/new-desktop-build/ My 8 year old AMD desktop build has finally died with a suspected motherboard issue. I built that as a gaming rig mainly to play Battlefield 3 and the racing simulator Live for Speed. It had an AMD Athlon II X3 435 Processor, and a ATI Radeon™ HD 5770 Graphics card that ran BF and LFS at decent graphic settings surprisingly well. After tons of research on Reddit's /buildapc subreddit and reading articles on various tech sites about current computer hardware, I decided to build another desktop with AMD's new APU processors with built-in graphics. https://kevinbarroga.me/post/codepen-pens/ Fri, 26 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://kevinbarroga.me/post/codepen-pens/ Added a new CodePen Pen, Cryptoticker. This uses CoinGecko and its API to fetch data on every browser refresh. (Working on polling solution) Added two other old projects I found that I was hosting locally. My plan is to migrate all locally hosted endppoint to either a SaaS or a VPS. D3 Test JS30 https://kevinbarroga.me/post/learn-node/ Sat, 20 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://kevinbarroga.me/post/learn-node/ 2018-01-04 I purchased the Learn Node course early last year, but did not find the time to go through it. Instead of coming up with a new years resolution, I figured it would be great to start 2018 learning something new. In the next few days I will start the course and my hope is to regularly post updates on my progress. As with all Wes’ courses, I expect it will be a fun one! https://kevinbarroga.me/post/export-pocket-data/ Mon, 15 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://kevinbarroga.me/post/export-pocket-data/ I use Pocket mainly to save articles for later reading, and archive them if they are worth a reference at a later time. You can pretty much Pocket anything such as links, videos, and images. My bookmarks now only contain sites that I frequent, and financial sites to lessen the chance of link hijacking when searching for the site on Google. Similar to my last post Export Pushbullet Pushes, I wanted to export all my Pocket data in text format so I wrote this bash script: https://kevinbarroga.me/post/export-pushbullet-pushes/ Sat, 13 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://kevinbarroga.me/post/export-pushbullet-pushes/ Pushbullet is a pretty cool service that I used for some time to send files and links to my other devices. I also used it to mirror Android notifications on my PCs. I wanted to export all my pushes in text format so I wrote a small bash script: #!/bin/bash # see https://docs.pushbullet.com/#list-pushes apitoken=$1 n=0 cursor='' while true; do curl --header "Access-Token: $apitoken" \ --data-urlencode active="true" \ --data-urlencode modified_after="0" \ $cursor \ --get \ https://api. https://kevinbarroga.me/post/migrating-to-netlify/ Wed, 03 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://kevinbarroga.me/post/migrating-to-netlify/ Introduction Just recently migrated my self-hosted site to netlify. Site was hosted on an old raspberry pi which I used as a low powered development system for small projects. It was getting tedious to push commits to GitHub, ssh into the pi, pull down changes, then finally run my custom hugo build script to generate the static files and reload nginx. I discovered netlify on hugo's hosting and development section. The process was pretty simple, instructions were clear and easy to follow. https://kevinbarroga.me/post/install-keepassxc/ Sun, 12 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://kevinbarroga.me/post/install-keepassxc/ Introduction Creating long secure passwords can be difficult. Trying to find a way to store them securely is another story. That is why I always recommend to friends and family to start using a password manager. A good password manager let you store your passwords in a secure database, associate a key file with you database for even tighter security, generate long random passwords for new accounts, and auto-type username and passwords for you. https://kevinbarroga.me/post/moto-scrape-part-1/ Tue, 10 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://kevinbarroga.me/post/moto-scrape-part-1/ Introduction I've been watching MotoGP for about 10 years now, and today it still amazes me that the riders have the ability to comfortably squeeze into their racing leathers with balls the size of theirs. It's a shame the sport is not hugely popular in the states… How often do you get to see the #1 and #2 athlete compete against one another each week? This will be a continuing series of the process I took to scrape over 30 years of MotoGP data using python. https://kevinbarroga.me/post/training-log/ Fri, 22 Sep 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://kevinbarroga.me/post/training-log/ Updated September 30, 2017 I decided to log my runs and workouts, mainly for accountability purposes. Maybe in 20 years I will look back at this and see moments I've slacked off from training. Run routes added for 2017 runs. Due to the tedious effort of manually exporting the gpx data for each run from Samsung Health, uploading it to Strava, then generating an embed link, I won't add routes for 2016. https://kevinbarroga.me/post/first-hugo-post/ Wed, 13 Sep 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://kevinbarroga.me/post/first-hugo-post/ Finally got around to putting a personal blog site together. Neat thing about it - powered by Hugo and I can use Markdown to author my posts. For me, setup was simple and painless compared to Jekyll other static site generators. https://kevinbarroga.me/post/turn-off-leds-raspi/ Fri, 18 Aug 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://kevinbarroga.me/post/turn-off-leds-raspi/ Step 1. Change to root user In your terminal change to root user: sudo su Step 2. Turn of red/green led To turn off the red led: echo 0 > /sys/class/leds/led0/brightness To turn off the green led: echo 0 > /sys/class/leds/led1/brightness Step 3. Stealth mode Your raspberry pi is now in incognito!! *Leds will turn back on after reboot https://kevinbarroga.me/post/install-telegram-desktop/ Wed, 09 Aug 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://kevinbarroga.me/post/install-telegram-desktop/ Step 1. Download Telegram Goto Telegram Desktop and download the appropriate version for your operating system. Save it to somewhere specific ex. ~/Downloads as we will be moving into the directory in the next step. Step 2. Extract files Move into the directory in which you saved the file. As in our case cd ~/Downloads. Extract the tar file: tar -xJvf tsetup.X.X.X.tar.xz Step 3. Move Telegram to suitable location Move the extracted Telegram folder to /opt/telegram directory: