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i previously made some paper pyramids, which you can get here if you're so inclined. these are used for playing Zendo and Homeworlds and a hundred other board games . but I was always a little frustrated with how long it took to make a set of the pyramids. either you keep the cutting simple, but you have to do like five minutes of origami for every single piece, or else you keep the folding simple…
so ive been working on something called Project Kettle which deserves its own blog post at some point, basically im trying to make an easy and repeatable recipe for hosting a shared web server on a raspberry pi or similar low-power machine. ive been avoiding containers up until this point because i didn't want the overhead, but im relenting and using them because it seems like there's basically no…
once as a kid i gave a girl a compliment like 'you are as graceful as a whale' and someone else found out, and when we were out of earshot they said to me, "nycki, there is no polite way to compare someone to a whale. it doesn't matter that you said 'graceful', people's first association with whales is 'fat'." i think this might be an autism thing? the strong autistic desire to use words to mean…
in response to moth , who writes: not to harp on it too much but im kind of begging people to look at bluesky, mastodon, twitter, tumblr, irc, discord, signal, and all the less enduring endeavors that have sprung up between and since and actually try to answer the question... whats next. what comes after this i really want to see what other people think about that. a blog post, a bluesky thread,…
my windows machine is a surface tab 5 LTE from like 2015 and it has fairly limited internal storage so most of my code is on a 512GB microsd card that I leave connected at all times. this used to work fine. when you start WSL (windows subsystem for linux), it mounts C: as /mnt/c and D: as /mnt/d. But that doesn't seem to work anymore as of WSL 2.6.0, and rolling back didn't fix it either.…
gahhhhhh this was driving me crazy, putting it here so i don't lose it basically this solves the problem where you have pages like http://example.com/page2/index.php?query=true and you want it to display in the browser as the much nicer http://example.com/page2?query=true and you can't use nginx try_files because you promised yourself you were gonna make this work in apache "for old times' sake"…
I used to think magic was about knowing secret stuff. Then I thought magic was about being really good at acting and sleight of hand. Now I think those are both just facets of what really makes a moment feel magical: being more prepared than anyone could reasonably anticipate. By this "overprepared" metric, "magic" includes stage illusions and street magic, but it also includes things like when…
We have liftoff : local multiplayer Minecraft on the same Steam Deck. in Desktop mode, download PartyDeck 0.3.2, the PartyDeck config for Minecraft, the "Vertical split for 2 players" config, and the Prism Portable launcher (the flatpak will not work for this). If you want separate skins for p1 and p2, download those now. Extract PartyDeck and Prism to their own folders, like ~/Games/partydeck and…
cross-posted from https://bark.lgbt/@nycki/114395352312097076 . *update 2025-05-03: you might have better luck using the PortMaster Script for this game! They seem pretty cool, long list of games they've patched to run on low-end hardware. I haven't installed mods on this version yet but I'll try it later. I got modded balatro to mostly run under Switchroot Ubuntu. There's a bunch of mods that are…
I FINALLY GOT IT WORKING docker-compose.yml services : filebrowser : image : "filebrowser/filebrowser:s6" container_name : "filebrowser" environment : # filebrowser will run as this user, you may want to create a new one - "PUID=1000" - "PGID=1000" restart : "unless-stopped" volumes : - "/data/filebrowser/srv:/srv" - "/data/filebrowser/database:/database" - "/data/filebrowser/config:/config" ports…
hey so I like programming! I do it for money sometimes. I'm gonna talk about an interesting problem and its solution that I observed today. if you don't enjoy code for the sake of code, you can skip this one! or, if you already know what TypeScript is, you can skip ahead to the problem . context # so there's this software I use all the time called TypeScript, which is like JavaScript but with…
Today I added the RSS icon ( ) to my site! You should be able to see it up top by the word "blog" in the navbar, and if you click on it, it pulls up the RSS feed that you can subscribe to! As an aside, my current preferred reader is FreshRSS , but the nice thing about RSS readers is that they all have a standard import/export format so you can switch whenever you want :) Anyway, I did this in a…
up until now ive been hosting my site on a DigitalOcean droplet with 8GB of memory. the reason being that that's how much I needed to play Minecraft: Vault Hunters. But that costs like $40 a month and I don't play minecraft all that much anymore. so I'm downsizing. I've temporarily downgraded that server to its minimum, and I'm spinning up a new server which is even smaller than that. DigitalOcean…
this page was built with forgejo , yo! I installed a git forge on my own server so I can upload whatever I want, including nsfw stuff if I feel like it, and I wrote this build script that automatically rebuilds the page whenever I push changes. And I'm currently editing this page in Decap CMS , which automatically pushes changes to a git forge. So I have a fully visual post editor now! on :…
if u can read this than i installed the decap editor for my site :3
idea: a shirt with text on the boobs that says 'eye contact is overrated'
If I ask you what a can opener is, and you say A can opener is a service component that affords access to preserved fruits and vegetables. This does not help me at all. I am looking for something along the lines of A can opener is a handheld metal tool that cuts the lids off of canned food, which you can buy at the grocery store. You use it by turning a knob, which puts pressure on two blades,…
they said it was not worth our time to fix. the code could be obsolete any day now. better to keep it running until then. just keep fixing it until the requirements change, and then we can make a new one. but the requirements never change all at once. it happens little by little, like rotting planks stripped from a wooden boat, replaced with fresh boards until no trace of the original remains. and…
So apparently I haven't written about Looney Pyramids yet! Formerly known as Icehouse Pyramids, these were invented by Andy Looney in 1987 as a prop for a science fiction setting for his book The Empty City . The game was called Icehouse, and it was meant to be a Martian counterpart to Chess, but "alien" in every possible way: The game is for 4 players, with no assigned partners. Diplomacy is…
Today I'd like to spotlight a keyboard I've been using since the day I got my first keyless android phone circa 2012. It was a tiny little thing, screen the size of a business card, and they had the nerve to ship it without a numpad or keyboard attached! Some people worked around this problem by using speech to text, or by using an auto-complete tool like Swype , but I was hip with netspeak and I…
This site is now compatible with Internet Browser for the New Nintendo 3DS ! Here's how I did it. EDIT 2025-04-14: better solution by Kooda here that works for any old browser instead of whitelisting a specific one! Disable HTTPS Redirect for 3DS Agent String # The 3DS isn't able to use HTTPS for most certificates, and there isn't currently a hack to circumvent this. So, if the user claims to be a…
Im makin a minecraft modpack and its gonna have a bunch of cool substitute recipes for stuff that I dont like getting normally. I thought some of these were kinda funny so here you go. all images made with Recipe Generator by Misode. you know what screw the nether # lava bones moldy beans bloody soil refined quartz we have end city at home # purple hat icarus portal flower moon rocks this one just…
originally posted 2024-05-01 on Cohost. toki pona is esperanto for people whose myst was baba is you
originally posted 2024-08-24 on cohost. so like... I think we can all agree that Downloading Is Good, right? if you see something you like online, save a copy, because it might not be there tomorrow. so... how do we feel about Reuploading Is Good? if you save something, and then it goes offline, then you should re-upload it... right? Caveat 1: Consent # If the artist doesn't want something to be…
I wrote a site template for webcomics. It has the absolute bare minimum amount of html, css, and templating, because I figure if you're making a comic you probably want to do that stuff yourself! I might use it myself at some point, I used to write an adventure comic ...
I got it working! For now at least. Comments are hosted on my own private server using Comentario . I don't feel like doing a full writeup right now but uhhhhh I'll just dump my config files, maybe it'll help you set this up someday # docker-compose.yml version : '3' services : app : image : registry.gitlab.com/comentario/comentario : dev - 4e35a801 network_mode : host environment : PORT : 8300…
cross-posted from Cohost I don't think we're going to ever have a true "successor" to Cohost, and I don't think we should! I think we should look at this more like The LucasArts Breakup which resulted in Doublefine, Telltale, and a handful of smaller indie teams, each one led by an alumni of the previous team. Mynotaurus has already stepped up with an active Mastodon and The Enclave Webring…
There are only two settings on every dryer: "maximum" and "who cares".
Wow, posting on my phone kinda sucks. My current workflow: pull the blog source files into termux on android with git pull run sshd in termux so I can access its files as if they were on the network use cx file explorer to view the network drive, upload images, and write a text file (YOU ARE HERE) go back to termux and push the updated files log into my server with connectbot and npm run build to…
Does anyone have suggestions for comment boxes? I want something similar to commentbox.io but without anonymous comments (and I think $20/mo for that privilege alone is a little steep). I'm willing to self-host schnack but I was hoping for something I can recommend to other people without them having to self-host it. Email me if you have any ideas!
I put the cracker down first, then the cheese, then the ham. that's my hors d'oeuvre operations.
Holy shit I'm doing this. I'm... "blogging." I'm using a tool for this called Eleventy , working from their template called eleventy-base-blog . I'm hosting this on a server I bought from DigitalOcean because I can also use it to run Minecraft. Look at all those links. Wow. I sure am Posting again.