"Feb 25, 2025 5:46 PM"
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)
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"Feb 25, 2025 11:03 AM"
Some really good advice on dealing with anxiety in issue 37 of The Dice from Greg Storey on his blog Brilliantcrank.
"Change Server Time"
I created a new script that wraps to create shorter, untitled posts. It uses the function to set values for directories, filename and post title. By default it was using UTC so any post I made in the...
"A Long Week"
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 v...
"Too Much to Read"
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 th...
"Curation"
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"...
"Morning Star"
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 t...
"Snowing Again"
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 a...
"Site Updates"
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 p...
"Good Enough"
I've spent a bunch of time trying to figure out how to get a solid web editor interface implemented for Hugo but have largely been unsucceessful. As a result of that and the tweaking and moving and st...
"Testing post from GitJournal"
Trying out GitJournal for Android. It was easy to get it hooked up to my repo in my self hosted Gitea instance. The editor is pretty basic but supports markdown and has previewing. Not sure if the fro...
"Whats Up Next"
Current state I've got Hugo up and running nicely. I'm getting down how the flow of everything works with it and what the built-in features are. I'm pretty happy with how it looks and I really like th...
"Moving to Hugo"
After a lot of working with Eleventy for a while I decided to jump ship and move to Hugo. The main reason behind the decision was the ease of Hugo themes. Eleventy has a ton of customization but I jus...
"Some workflow updates"
kill-the-newsletter I gave in and just created kill-the-newsletter RSS feeds on the official service for the few newletters I have that aren't RSS-able. The cost of increasing my vps size was more tha...
"Jan 28, 2025"
I was updating apps today on my phone and noticed this release version number on the Google Play Books app. So I checked out apkmirror and sure enough it's been the same message since June of 2023. Ho...
"Just realized a major drawback with self-hosted WriteFreely; the inability to..."
Just realized a major drawback with self-hosted WriteFreely; the inability to upload images. Clearly if it took me this long to notice, I don't often have posts with images. Still this is unfortunate....
"I'm on to figuring out the last piece of my self- hosted RSS to read later..."
I'm on to figuring out the last piece of my self- hosted RSS to read later setup. I need to get a solution in place for handling email newsletters. Kill-the-newsletter is what I'm going to try. It giv...
"Just picked up two new books from the library last night and moved them over to..."
Just picked up two new books from the library last night and moved them over to my Currently Reading section for 2025. Broken Code: Inside Facebook and the Fight to Expose Its Harmful Secrets by Jeff...
"I feel like this time of year is always a bit of a struggle."
I feel like this time of year is always a bit of a struggle. After the holidays and all the visiting and eating and events, it feels like all that's left is an empty quiet. I feel like there's usually...
"I have not been able to get Readeck configured as an OPDS option for KOReader..."
I have not been able to get Readeck configured as an OPDS option for KOReader on my e-reader. Not sure if it's a permission issue or what. Unfortunately there's not much feedback when trying to connec...