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I have a very manual photo backup process. It involves: The trouble with a system like this is that if you go through something traumatic, it s really hard to sift through the memories of the period and complete the backup. So I sort of just stopped doing it in late 2019 when I was Continue reading Healing backup
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I’ve managed to write on average a couple of pages a day for every day this year. I feel like I’m making real progress with figuring out some stuff about me.
As part of this recent focus on my self-hosted sites, I tried benchmarking some of them to see how well they perform under load. It turns out that with caching, WordPress performs comparably well to my static website. And each of these options can handle several hundred requests (with 100 concurrently) and return responses in Continue reading Benchmarking my sites
I often run into people (especially those early in their learning journeys) who suffer from massive imposter syndrome and feelings of being mediocre. I find myself giving the same versions of the following advice, so I thought I’d take the time to write it down with a bit more coherency in one place. There is Continue reading How to get good at things
As part of writing more, I’ve decided to begin more of my journalling on paper this year. So I went to my stationery cabinet and pulled out the prettiest notebook I could find. Let’s see how it plays out.
I’m intending on writing more frequently on the journal after a hiatus of over 10 years. A lot has changed in my life in the interim, and I thought I’d get you up to speed. Personally, I met someone and lived with her for a few years in Oslo. Then, we got married. Then we Continue reading The bridge entry
Gather around children for a little story. I’ve always been a little wary of proprietary social media. And true to form, like over a decade ago, I was active on a free and open source Twitter-like thing called identi.ca. I was happy there with all the other neck-beards. And, of course, I cross-posted and stored Continue reading Journey to Mastodon
So I was out having a drink with some friends this evening. And as the evening progressed our group began to disperse while the bar got more crowded. Anyway, at some point only one of my friends remained, a classically attractive blonde woman. We were catching up and talking about different things, when the empty Continue reading Twenty-two year olds
The web has changed a lot since the early days of this journal. And in many ways, I miss the way things used to be. I guess it s that nostalgia that brings me here today. A lot too has happened in my life since I stopped updating the journal regularly, but here are a couple Continue reading The big-ticket items