Oh Right, I Have A Blog Author: Jake Bauer | Published: 2025-12-28 *taps server* is this thing still on? It s been a year since I ve posted anything on this here blog. I ve mostly been idle from a lot of computering as I ve focused on other things in life (reading, gardening, home renovation) and it s been pretty nice to step back. In all honesty, I ve been pretty burnt out from a lot of the…
An Update About This Very Webbed Site Author: Jake Bauer | Published: 2024-09-12 I ve made some significant changes to this website in the time before I last posted my previous blog post previously before in the past and I wanted to detail them in case people find some things I ve done useful for their own site. This is what my website used to look like: The old design. Kinda stale and boring and…
Moving Across the Ocean Author: Jake Bauer | Published: 2024-08-25 Hey, hello, hi I m still here! It s been a little bit over a year since my last blog post and quite a lot has changed. My wife and I moved from Canada to Germany almost one year ago and I wanted to share my experience with moving across the Atlantic Ocean. Why Move? The short answer is that my wife and I wanted to live in a place…
Computers as Workspaces Author: Jake Bauer | Published: 2023-05-09 I came across a page on Dave Gauer s site 1 about how he treats different computers as different physical workspaces 2 . That, along with Josh Ginter s post on keeping a separate creativity computer 3 and Alexander Cobleigh s post on making a social media computer 4 helped me to put words to the habits I ve found myself falling…
OpenBSD on the Dell XPS 13 9380 Author: Jake Bauer | Published: 2023-03-17 (Yes, I totally ripped off jcs format for this.) It s been a while since I had a laptop with any semblance of computing power that I actually enjoyed using. Back in 2021, I ditched my Thinkpad T420s for a Mid-2009 MacBook Pro and an old 2008-era netbook, both with Core 2 Duo series processors. Although the MacBook is still…
Styling External Links Author: Jake Bauer | Published: 2023-03-02 Long time no see! While I have a few other, longer blog posts still cooking, I figured I d post about a cool bit of CSS I came across on eli_oat s site which adds a marker to every link on a site that points to an external domain. This means that links which point to pages on the same site (or within the same domain, if configured…
Free Software is an Abject Failure Author: Jake Bauer | Published: 2021-11-08 | Updated: 2025-06-26 Based on certain kinds of feedback I've received in response to this post, I feel the need to say that if you disagree with what I have written I would appreciate it if you would voice those disagreements by criticising the ideas that I've presented rather than assuming things about my character or…
A Git Workflow With Claws Mail Author: Jake Bauer | Published: 2021-10-26 When sending or receiving patches to or from git repositories, I prefer to use git send-email . I find this workflow more efficient and less distracting than jumping to a web interface to create a pull request. Plus, it s not dependent on having an account wherever a repository is hosted. I used to use aerc as my email…
Mastodon Is Dead, Long Live Misskey 🍮 Author: Jake Bauer | Published: 2021-08-05 This article is pretty old and the landscape of Fedi has changed a bit. There is now a fork of Pleroma called Akkoma and forks of Misskey called FoundKey and CalcKey which all seek to solve various technical and social shortcomings with their respective projects. The server I am on right now uses Hometown , a fork of…
Migrating from nginx to OpenBSD s httpd and relayd Author: Jake Bauer | Published: 2021-02-17 This logo is subject to the license at: openbsd.org The configuration specified in this blog post is out of date. Please refer to OpenBSD HTTP and Git Server for my updated configuration. Having set up my mail server on OpenBSD, I ve been very satisfied with the cohesiveness of the operating system; it…