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Since the last post on longboarding, I’ve started skating at the local park with a friend.

I recently completed the rustlings introduction to learning the Rust programming language.

I’ve recently finished reading Stolen Focus by Johann Hari.

Since my last post on longboarding, I’ve become a lot more comfortable with push-up and coleman slides, and now I aim to learn toeside pendulum slide.

I have switched to using fossil SCM for managing the source code of this website.

I’ve switched to using a wildcard certificate for everything I host on *.mfashby.net.

I really enjoyed playing wordle recently, and I really appreciated how simple and fun the game is.

This is my short list of ideas I’ve taken away from reading a Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout.

I wrote a previous post about clojure where I expressed an intent to write a slack clone using the language.

I’m now using radicale for calendar and contacts.

I’ve recently setup a full system backup for my raspberry pi home server, backing up to my NAS over NFS.

Since my last post on longboarding, I’ve been learning to push up slide and coleman slide.

Recently at work, I needed to be able to rewrite some postgresql queries which were coming from a closed-source application in order to integrate the app into our own system testing setup.

I’ve tried installing & using OpenBSD 7.0 on my Pinebook Pro.

I’m learning Clojure on the basis that you should learn something that will change your way of thinking.

I originally started this blog using Jekyll, but I’ve since switched to using hugo after I found it simpler to install and use (pamac install hugo on manjaro linux).

I recently refurbished my bike for use as a commuter.

I found plainoldrecipe a while back, I find it really handy for some recipe sites which are full of cookie banners and ads, it makes them much easier to read on a phone or small laptop while I’m actually trying to cook.

I bought a Pinebook Pro some while back, and I’m quite happy with it.

I’ve used Ubuntu linux for many years, but just recently it’s started to become a bit more difficult due to proliferation of package managers.

Longboard I recently picked up longboarding.

Since my last post on mail servers, the maddy email server has advanced significantly, and now includes enough functionality to be a useful mail server adhering to current best practices.

I’ll restart blogging, likely in the form of micro-blogs restricted to just a few sentences.

See unicornpaint for details.

My search for an email server Rainloop Screenshot A big theme in the news recently is data protection, how your personal data is being used (and abused), and taking back control of your data.

I’m intending to write more online about the stuff I tinker with.