The Universe of Joshua Blais

I Have been seeing various posts about the ‘GOTH’ stack for development - Go Tailwind & Templ and HTMX (with Postgres in many cases as the database).

The only skill that is really needed in life is the ability to learn.

Taking my workstation along with me has never been easier and I am blessed to have the ability to use a perfectly ergonomic setup wherever I may be on Earth.

Laziness takes a back seat when you start to see the work that you are called to do as your vocation, your calling, and your way of praising The Almighty.

My system of getting things done has slowly evolved over the years to end up on the way that I now do things.

If you do something once, you should be able to very easily do it again.

After four years of running NextJS as my primary blog and development framework, I am making the hop to Hugo.

In July of this year, we gave up our rental of three years and became vagabonds.

When you look around, all you will likely “see” is material.

The theory of everything has been solved since the arrival of Jesus Christ on Earth 2024 years ago.

The richest person is not the one who has the most, but the one who needs the least. ― Arab proverb The older I get, the more I see that internal peace is found in wanting less.

It has been a few years since I looked at my GPG keys, and the security defaults have since shifted greatly!

The human being is the fabled “perpetual motion machine”.

While we were away last month, I felt better than I had in probably a year’s time.

I have been looking for a way to get my notes synced across all devices to create a portable knowledge base.

Over the past month, I have paired down substantially the things that I own.

In this second installation of my Ultimate Zen Workstation Series, we will start from a fresh installation of Fedora Workstation 40 and configure everything in an optimal way so as to get us up and running.

Updated September 20, 2024 You can watch a broad overview of my system in this video: You can get my dotfiles here This will be the first post in an ongoing series on setting up the Ultimate Zen Workstation and as a reference point for me in the future to…

The definition of genius is taking the complex and making it simple. ― Albert Einstein If you want a life that is far less stressful, taking the meaningless things away will help you to find the inner peace you are seeking.

The modern view on feelings is leading millions of people astray from the Truth.

The more that I use a computer, the more that I realize that using a computer all of the time is one of the worst things you can possibly do for your body.

Money isn’t real.

A friend of mine sent me a .pages file the other day.

Decluttering is a meme in a society with so much abundance.

Instead of using actions or some other way of CI/CD’ing my apps, I simply work with a deploy script that will build a Docker Container, push it to my registry, SSH into the remote, pull the container, make sure it runs, then apply NGINX configurations and…

I have a bit of an unconventional way to deploy docker containers - I saw that Docker Hub wanted to charge montly fees when I am simply pushing and pulling images infrequently, so I decided to do this via my Gitea instance.

As of today, this blog and all of my projects are Google analytics free.

A little under two months ago, I started a different kind of journey to learning something new.

If there is one thing that I have personally changed about myself over the past few years it is my stringent reduction in the use of expletives in my vernacular.

I have been using go lang and the Echo framework for all of my app builds over the past six months and can’t see myself ever returning to a javascript or python backend.

Perhaps the greatest roadblock on my path to spiritual growth has been falling again and again to the sin of lust.

When I was a child, I would always ask my father - God bless him!

When we aim to quit a habit, we inevitably start “counting the days” since we last participated in that habit. “5 days since I last had a smoke!”

I see far too many people down these days.

One of the greatest lies that we tell ourselves is that we will “do it when we are ready”.

The presupposition with Pascal’s wager is that living life from a Christian perspective is a “sacrifice” in the short term, but in the long term (read: eternity) you get the reward from that sacrifice in Heaven.

In order to live a life in chronic back pain, I have had to adapt various methods to alleviate the strain on my low back.

We must die to the world in order to find eternal life.

I used to write in massive paragraphs, where I would lose the sentences that I was writing, and it was not a fun time to edit - to say the least.

I invite you to try one of the most life-altering experiments I have taken up in the past year.

The Preface to my Book, Mountain: A Field Guide to Summiting Life is available for everyone to download!

Setup of basic Debian server# I generally use Debian for the servers I run projects on.

A guide to install gitea on Debian 11# Here is a quick guide to Install Gitea with Postgresql on Debian 11 Start with a quick system update: sudo apt-get update -ysudo apt-get upgrade -y Setup postgresql# sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://apt.postgresql.org/pu…

Burnout is not real.

If you live to ~80 years old (about the average in the modernised world): You’ll have 29,166 days… 700,000 hours… 42,000,000 minutes.

For the first 30 minutes of your day, everyday, I implore you to attempt the following: No screens whatsoever Get water in with salts Get a sweat on I love Sun salutations as my opening exercise, opening up my hips and lower back, I highly recommend them…

With various new social media channels coming online where you can waste more of your ever-shortening life, let me recommend a way that you can break free from the strangle hold that these apps are designed to have on you: Set a timer for 90 minutes.

As a professional vagabond - I travel tremendously light.

The only piece of advice I would give someone who is not where they want to be in life would be: Create more What do I mean by this?

You are only ever going to have the current moment to change your life and ways.