Just some stuff about things.
In a previous post , I noted I moved to a self-hosted Forgejo instance on a locally homed Raspberry Pi. That was fun! (It was, even with a few hiccups along the way). And, as part of all of that, I set up a forgejo-runner on a Hetzner VPS that would deploy this here site to a Bunny Storage Zone and out to the interwebs. Back then, so many weeks ago, the DNS was handled by Cloudflare. This caused a…
This wasn’t without trials and tribulations. I’ve been sick the past few days and this was something I could do to stay un-bored. I moved my site to a self-hosted Forgejo. It wasn’t that I didn’t love that Source Tube exists and I get it as part of my subscription to OMG.lol . I was afraid of taking up too much space. I wasn’t even halfway there yet, but I have some newer project ideas and wanted…
Some time ago, in the midst of all of the fires burning around us, I decided to make some changes to my site. Some of this was born to move it from GitHub, which I did via Codeberg then via a Forgejo instance hosted by Adam via OMG.lol (definitely worth checking out). I was deploying the site to Codeberg Pages prior to that, which you can find some more info about in this post . But never to be…
Some folks are answering these questions and so I did, too. Do you floss your teeth? Periodically, yes. Tea, coffee, or water? Coffee (unless I’m sick, then tea). Footwear preference? Sneakers of some sort generally. Favourite dessert? Cheesecake of any type. The first thing you do when you wake up? Clean a litterbox. Age you’d like to stick to? I’d like to say somewhere in my 30s, but having…
Some time ago I moved my 11ty site from Cloudflare and Github to Codeberg Pages. It was not without its trial and tribulations but this tutorial from user johnnyjayjay was invaluable and, in fact, I deviated very little from it for deploying the site from terminal to Codeberg Pages. That said, the other issue I wanted to resolve was rebuilding the site every few hours to capture any social media…
Today I got my COVID booster and pneumonia vaccine. It was the first time for the pneumonia vaccine for me but my PC recommended it given my asthma history that was the result of having pneumonia in the first place. I got pneumonia in 2019, when I was running for office in a competitive race. It was the combination of long days (working full-time, taking graduate level courses, and campaigning) as…
Note #2 08/31/2025 I fixed some typos and unfinished sentences in the post. I must’ve been asleep writing it. Note #1 08/24/2025 I updated the og-image.njk code below (and added the date to the images). And my inspiration for digging into this yesterday can be found at this Mastodon thread here . Additionally, you do not need the og-image.njk if you just want your OpenGraph Image to be a…
I’ve been trying to write some thoughts about everything happening and I’m sure like many of you I find it all at times all-consuming and suffocating. As others have have shared elsewhere, some of that is by nature at the US Federal level; some of it in the tech (and others) world is a manifestation of the centrist mindset, “Both ‘sides’ are a problem; we’re neutral.” To be clear: neutrality is a…
I’ve done a little clean-up on the site. While I didn’t participate with naked CSS yesterday it got me thinking about streamlining my CSS. My index.css file is probably still large at 600 or so lines but I’ll be paring that down over the next few days/weeks. I’d like to keep colors throughout, etc., but I let the design get out of control overall. Rather than leveraging design elements across…
Of course this post and title would’ve been better at 500 miles, but who has time for that? Yesterday, on a commute to a meeting, I hit 600 miles on my e-bike. This is a little over six months since I started e-bike commuting in earnest. I’m proud of that. Most of my daily commuting is under five miles total. Yesterday’s was around 31 miles when all was said and done, including a detour due to…