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assets/scss/custom.scss

@@ -1,19 +1,23 @@
 // Import color palette first
 @import "custom/color-palette";
+@import "custom/breakpoints";   // Breakpoints for responsive design
 
-// Import mode-specific settings
-@import "custom/dark-mode";
+// Import base styles
 @import "custom/light-mode";
+@import "custom/dark-mode";
 
-// Import components
-@import "custom/links";         // Links and buttons
-@import "custom/blockquote";    // blockquote styling
-@import "custom/influencer";    // Influencer styling
-@import "custom/module";        // Modules page styling
-@import "custom/notice";        // Notice shortcode styling
-@import "custom/updated";       // Updated shortcode styling
-@import "custom/tags";          // Tag cloud and tag list styling
-@import "custom/presentations"; // Presentation shortcode styling
-@import "custom/search";        // Search page styling
-
+// Then import component styles
+@import "custom/links";
+@import "custom/blockquote";
+@import "custom/influencer";
+@import "custom/module";
+@import "custom/notice";
+@import "custom/updated";
+@import "custom/tags";
+@import "custom/presentations";
+@import "custom/search";
+@import "custom/image";
 @import "custom/homepage";
+
+// Noscript must be last to override all other styles
+@import "custom/noscript";

assets/scss/custom/breakpoints.scss

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+$breakpoint-xs: 320px;
+$breakpoint-sm: 576px;
+$breakpoint-md: 768px;
+$breakpoint-lg: 992px;
+$breakpoint-xl: 1200px;
+$breakpoint-xxl: 1400px;

assets/scss/custom/image.scss

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+.custom-image-container {
+    display: inline-block;
+    text-align: center;
+    margin: 0 auto;
+    max-width: 100%; /* Prevent overflow */
+  }
+
+  .custom-figcaption {
+    font-size: var(--font-size-small);
+    line-height: var(--line-height-small);
+    text-align: center;
+    margin-top: var(--spacing-small);
+    color: var(--text-secondary);
+    //max-width: 12.5rem; /* Default constraint for desktop */
+    margin-left: auto;
+    margin-right: auto;
+
+    /* XL screens */
+    @media (min-width: $breakpoint-xl) {
+      max-width: 15rem; /* Slightly larger on extra-large screens */
+    }
+
+    /* LG screens */
+    @media (max-width: $breakpoint-lg) {
+      max-width: 12.5rem; /* Keep consistent at large breakpoint */
+    }
+
+    /* MD screens */
+    @media (max-width: $breakpoint-md) {
+      max-width: 90%; /* Full width for medium screens */
+      margin-left: auto;
+      margin-right: auto;
+    }
+
+    /* SM screens */
+    @media (max-width: $breakpoint-sm) {
+      max-width: 100%; /* Edge to edge on small screens */
+      padding: 0 var(--spacing-small);
+    }
+
+    /* XS screens */
+    @media (max-width: $breakpoint-xs) {
+      max-width: 100%; /* Edge to edge on extra-small screens */
+      font-size: var(--font-size-xsmall);
+      padding: 0;
+    }
+  }
+
+  .custom-credit {
+    font-size: var(--font-size-xsmall);
+    color: var(--text-muted);
+    margin-top: var(--spacing-xsmall);
+    text-align: center;
+    max-width: 12.5rem; /* Default for desktop */
+    margin-left: auto;
+    margin-right: auto;
+
+    /* XL screens */
+    @media (min-width: $breakpoint-xl) {
+      max-width: 15rem;
+    }
+
+    /* LG screens */
+    @media (max-width: $breakpoint-lg) {
+      max-width: 12.5rem;
+    }
+
+    /* MD screens */
+    @media (max-width: $breakpoint-md) {
+      max-width: 90%;
+      margin-left: auto;
+      margin-right: auto;
+    }
+
+    /* SM screens */
+    @media (max-width: $breakpoint-sm) {
+      max-width: 100%;
+      padding: 0 var(--spacing-small);
+    }
+
+    /* XS screens */
+    @media (max-width: $breakpoint-xs) {
+      max-width: 100%;
+      font-size: var(--font-size-xsmall);
+      padding: 0;
+    }
+  }
+
+  .custom-credit a {
+    color: var(--link-color);
+    text-decoration: none;
+
+    &:hover {
+      color: var(--link-hover-color);
+      text-decoration: underline;
+    }
+  }
+

assets/scss/custom/notice.scss

@@ -64,4 +64,10 @@
         .notice-icon { color: var(--warning-color); }
         .notice-type { color: var(--warning-color); }
     }
+
+    &.ai {
+        border-left: 5px solid var(--color-primary);
+        .notice-icon { color: var(--color-primary); }
+        .notice-type { color: var(--color-primary); }
+    }
 }

content/page/about.md

@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ Currently, I am a DevOps engineer for a finance company and use PowerShell and P
 I began scripting early on, first playing with batch files in DOS, then DCL (heavily modding the `login.com` for my VMS account) during the few semesters I attended university.
 I'm not sure when I began writing VBScript, whether it was at that computer store or my next job at an engineering firm as their systems administrator.
 I definitely honed my skill in VBScript while working in my next position at the community college when I started managing login scripts for the Windows NT 3.51 domains.
+I also learned other scripting languages, like PHP and Perl.
 
 Around 2009, the college adopted [Microsoft's Live@EDU](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_365#Office_365_Education), a predecessor to Exchange Online, to provide students with "free" email and document storage.
 The easiest management of this service happened in a PowerShell (version 2) session with a snap-in.

content/powershell/mentorship-tsqltuesday.md

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+---
+title: "Mentorship - T-SQL Tuesday"
+description: |-
+    This past weekend, I attended my first SQL Saturday event in Atlanta and I had a blast.
+    One of the lightning talks was on The Benefits of Mentoring, and the speaker invited bloggers
+    to write about their own experience with mentorship.
+published: 2025-03-11
+tags: [ "mentorship", "SQLSaturday", "T-SQL Tuesday", "tech community", "career development", "diversity", "professional growth", "tech mentoring", "SQL community", "personal reflection" ]
+categories: ["PowerShell"]
+---
+
+## Introduction
+
+Hello reader, it’s been quite some time since I’ve written an article.
+In fact, it’s been almost 2 years.
+I’ve definitely had some things to say, but I have lacked the motivation.
+Obviously that has changed _(at least for the time being)_.
+
+## SQL Saturday Atlanta
+
+This past weekend, I attended my first SQL Saturday event in Atlanta and I had a blast.
+I spoke on Writing Cross-Platform PowerShell, and I met many wonderful people in the data community.
+Though I'm a self-declared SQL-adjacent, they were very welcoming.
+
+### Lightning Talks
+
+I attended a session with several lightning talks, two of which relate directly to this article:
+The Benefits of Mentoring by {{< influencer debthedba >}} and Blogging: Lessons Learned the Hard Way by {{< influencer jasonromans >}}.
+
+The latter talk inspired me to just write articles and not focus on minutia that only serves to prevent me from posting an article.
+The former talk and the [T-SQL Tuesday blog invitation](https://debthedba.wordpress.com/2025/03/04/t-sql-tuesday-184-the-invitation/),
+also by Deb, is about mentorship, and I wanted to share my experience of being a mentor and a mentee.
+
+[![T-SQL Tuesday](/images/tsqltuesday/tsql2sday-150x150.png "T-SQL Tuesday")](https://tsqltuesday.com)
+
+## Mentorship
+
+Over the course of my career, I’ve freely shared the information that I’ve learned with many others,
+including team members and the general community.
+Blogging and speaking at conferences is just one way to share knowledge.
+Mentoring is another way and, unfortunately, it is often overlooked.
+
+Entering a mentorship, whether the mentor or the mentee, requires commitment of time and self.
+Many new members of the community (any community) may feel uncomfortable to initiate a conversation about mentorship.
+The PowerShell and SQL/data communities are both recognized as very welcoming and inclusive communities.
+Asking someone about a mentorship would likely be met with an outpouring of names or places (online or in person) that can assist.
+
+I've been a mentee more than a few times over the course of my career (and really even prior to it).
+The lessons I learned were invaluable in shaping my perspective and ultimately my career.
+_Thanks {{< influencer "jeffhicks" bluesky >}} for all the pointers you've shared over the years!_
+
+And I've been a mentor a few times over the years.
+A couple of the mentees stand above the rest.
+
+### Mentee One
+
+The earliest one in my career was much less of a formal mentorship.
+In fact, it turned out that he saw my day today job duties and he wanted to be able to do the same thing.
+Of course, I trained him in the ways of the SysAdmin.
+Nearly 2 decades later we still keep in touch and as I’ve grown in my career, I’ve shared my ongoing perspective with him.
+
+{{< notice type="important" >}}
+It’s probably best that I mention at this point that he is Caucasian, like myself.
+I make a note of this because I know my experience and his experience could be drastically different than that of women and other races.
+I know that we have advantages and privileges that others do not.
+Diversity is critical in the expansion of human knowledge and humanity.
+{{< /notice >}}
+
+### Mentee Two
+
+The second mentee that stands out the most is quite recent.
+At my work, we have a paid internship program and a bright young woman was selected for our team.
+I was asked to bring her technical skills up to par so she could be a contributing member of the team.
+It wasn’t like she was a clean slate in that she had already done some programming in her coursework and another internship, I believe.
+
+While there were no explicitly defined goals, being a contributing member of the team was my guideline.
+We spent many hours on Zoom calls with me explaining various technologies, and also providing general career guidance,
+such as letting her know that her career is hers and not her employers that the job belongs to the employer.
+I shared with her several of the influencers that I follow,
+but I suggested that she should find other women in the technology space to follow as their voices might resonate more with her.
+
+I asked her if she could share with me a statement about our mentorship, and here are her thoughts.
+
+> Dave jump-started my career with his stellar mentorship.
+> He went through company-specific workflows and general knowledge about IIS, AWS, Chef,
+> and other tools I needed to be familiar with on the job, always patient and encouraging.
+> \
+> \
+> He made me feel like I had the chops to succeed, and encouraged me to persevere
+> knowing I might run into people who doubted my skills (quite unfairly) due to my gender.
+> This did happen every now and then, but the encouragement and hard skills Dave imparted to me
+> made me immune (or at least less susceptible) to such inadvertent knock-downs.
+> \
+> \
+> He encouraged me to be a clear communicator, and showed me what that looked like.
+> At not yet two years at the company, I am now a lead of my team - and I owe a huge amount of that success to Dave.
+
+## No One is Perfect
+
+Even with these success stories and others, I know that I’ve had a few failures.
+I’m not sure where the fault lay, but perhaps it was more training than mentoring.
+Have experienced something that just did not have the eagerness and thirst for learning, or perhaps I let my own biases get in the way.
+
+{{< notice type="tip" >}}
+If you are looking for a mentor or mentorship, or would like to be a mentor,
+please leave a comment on Deb's [invitation](https://debthedba.wordpress.com/2025/03/04/t-sql-tuesday-184-the-invitation).
+{{< /notice >}}
+
+## Summary
+
+I do enjoy sharing my perspective of my extensive career and helping others make the most of theirs.
+While I would like to mentor others in the tech community, I really don’t have the spare time this summer.
+And I don’t want to commit without being sure I can fulfill that commitment.
+
+One day, I certainly would like to mentor again (outside of work), to take on a protege, and to help those that ask.
+I want to do my part to help the community(ies) soar beyond the clouds.
+
+{{< notice type="ai" >}}
+
+- Claude.ai
+  - Update the Hugo `shortcode` for influencer.
+- GitHub Copilot
+  - Correctly provide link for T-SQL Tuesday image.
+
+{{< /notice >}}

data/images/php_mysql_web_dev_book.yaml

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+src: "bookcovers/php_mysql_web_dev_book.jpg"
+alt: "PHP and MySQL Web Development book cover by Laura Thompson and Luke Welling, 2001"
+title: "PHP and MySQL Web Development (2001)"
+caption: "Cover of PHP and MySQL Web Development, by Laura Thompson and Luke Welling (2001)"
+credit: "Image source: [Amazon](https://www.amazon.com)"
+width: "200"
+height: "auto"
+align: "center"
+margin: "10px auto"

data/influencers/debthedba.yaml

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+name: Deborah Melkin
+blog: https://debthedba.wordpress.com/
+social:
+  - default: linkedin
+  - bluesky: dgmelkin.bsky.social
+  - linkedin: deborah-melkin

data/influencers/jasonromans.yaml

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+name: Jason Romans
+blog: https://thedaxshepherd.com/
+social:
+  - default: linkedin
+  - bluesky: thedaxshepherd.bsky.social
+  - linkedin: jason-r-sql-jar
+github: thedaxshepherd
+gists: false
+speaker: https://sessionize.com/jason-romans/

layouts/shortcodes/gist.html

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 {{- $owner := .Get "owner" | default "thedavecarroll" -}}
 {{- $gistId := .Get "id" -}}
 {{- $file := .Get "file" -}}
+{{- $modifiedFile := "" -}}
+{{- $noscript_link := "" -}}
+{{- $link := "" -}}
 
 {{ if $file }}
-    <script src="https://gist.github.com/{{ $owner }}/{{ $gistId }}.js?file={{ $file }}"></script>
+    {{- $modifiedFile = replace $file "." "-" -}}
+    {{- $noscript_link = printf "https://gist.github.com/%s/%s#file-%s" $owner $gistId $modifiedFile | relLangURL | absURL -}}
+    {{- $link = printf "https://gist.github.com/%s/%s.js?file=%s" $owner $gistId $file -}}
 {{ else }}
-    <script src="https://gist.github.com/{{ $owner }}/{{ $gistId }}.js"></script>
-{{ end }}
+    {{- $noscript_link = printf "https://gist.github.com/%s/%s" $owner $gistId -}}
+    {{- $link = printf "https://gist.github.com/%s/%s.js" $owner $gistId -}}
+{{ end }}
+
+<noscript>
+    <div class="noscript-notice">Scripts are disabled. Unable to display gist inline.</div>
+    <div class="noscript-action">Click to view gist:</div>
+    <a href="{{ $noscript_link }}" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">{{ $noscript_link }}</a>
+</noscript>
+
+<script src="{{ $link }}"></script>