Updated my Yunohost deployment of my blog today to include a systemd.service file that runs hugo server with some options to automatically rebuild my site.

Turns out the library wont have a copy of Nemesis for a little while longer. Gives me a bit more time to finish Wool (which I’m really enjoying)

Some really good advice on dealing with anxiety in issue 37 of The Dice from Greg Storey on his blog Brilliantcrank.

I created a new script that wraps hugo new to create shorter, untitled posts. It uses the date function to set values for directories, filename and post title. By default it was using UTC so any post I made in the evening, ending up in the next day.

Everyone but me has gotten sick this week. Flu across the board and an ear infection for our youngest. I know they said at the beginning of flu season that they didn’t expect great efficacy from the vaccine this year and that is certainly showing in our household. I’ve managed to avoid it so far but I do feel like it’s just a matter of time before I get hit.

I wrapped up the first three books in the Red Rising series and moved on to Wool by Hugh Howey, the first in the Silo trilogy. The series has been really good and a coworker who read the books said the first two seasons cover the first book really well. Rather than wait for season three, I’m going to try and get through the books. BUT as soon as I started getting into it, I got an automated call from my local library telling me the new Orphan X novel Nemesis is going to be available for pickup tomorrow.

Towards the end of last year I read Kyle Chayka’s Filtwrworld and since then I’ve had the theme of curation stuck in the back of my head. Basically everything on the Internet has turned into a “feed” over the last decade or so. And every major feed has algorithms applied to inject more ads and optimize for “engagement”. After reflecting on it for a bit I decided to try and cut out as many algorithmic feeds as possible.

Finished my reread of the final book in the original Red Rising trilogy (Morning Star) tonight. The ending comes quicker than I remember it. Lots of events in a really short period where the rest of the book jumps weeks at a time. It does maybe make it seem a little rushed. But I feel like it covers everything and we get the ending we deserve. I guess it’s more the pacing is just different than the rest of the book.

Enjoying looking out the window watching the snow come down. We got a big snow earlier this year. More than we’ve ever had at once in my lifetime. I liked watching it come down and seeing everything all smooth and quite and bright. I did not like shovelling it and was glad when the last of it melted from the driveway. I am excited to see it coming down again now though.

I know the title is “Site Updates” but it’ not about the tech or deployment. I finally got around to filling out a few of the info pages and promoted them to the header navigation. The about page is pretty standard on most websites and blogs but Uses and Now are both newer concepts to me. I cam across these two on 32bit.cafe. Uses is a list of what tools you use.