File Sharing, or AirDrop-likes Another list, with some opinion sprinkled-in when relevant Feel free to reply, email, message elsewhere if you think I've mis-represented any of these, or if I've missed your favourite option! Direct File / Text Sharing Just basic, direct sharing of files, text, links, etc. AirDrop - the Apple way May as well get this one out of the way, if you're entirely within the…
Adding a new drive to a Linux server What does every homelab server need? Storage! And this time I was lazy, connecting the drive and packing up before actually setting up the drive. Doing so took a little bit of digging, so I'm making a note of the steps for the next time I need to do this. This is based on a wonderfully detailed post on the GNU Parted warning: "The resulting partition is not…
Go-Chat, adding chat history Background A few months ago, I decided to pick up the Go Programming Language . After a couple of weeks of going through the Go Tour and Go by Example to understand the syntax, I was looking for a "real" project to really start understanding the language and it's surrounding hype. From this post by ThePrimeagen, a WebSocket based chat server and client seemed like a…
Migrating from the Old Blog NOTE: You'll probably notice the date on this post marked as 02/01/2024, even though this is being published on 13/04/2024. Yeah, I sorta forgot to hit publish on this one. 😅 It's still getting updated when appropriate though! A while back I was experimenting with DNS and hosting as I'd just bought my first domain. It was the perfect excuse to host my own site and…
App Defaults I originally saw this post on Mastodon about App Defaults and how a load of people's defaults were shared and collected in one place. As part of the push to start writing, why not check my own defaults, and see how much of an impact they have on my use. The list of categories can be found in the original post , and there's even an RSS feed linked there, which you can follow for…
The First One Lately I've been told to just get started on creating the posts of a blog, so why not on weblog.lol . I had a lot of fun in the past, experiementing with DNS and SSG, making my own blog using Hugo. But since I really need to stop getting sidetracked, using something premade might work better this time. The first post is also a great time to test out a static site comment system.…