Nothing Is Simple

It's been a while since I've written a post, but that doesn't mean I've been idle.

This year is my third year submitting tax forms that were filled out programmatically with Emacs.

I use Org for many things, two of which are managing appointments and tracking my paid time off.

After looking through Mastodon the other day I stumbled upon an old post by Tony Aldon about making Org hyperlinks to git repositories and opening them in Magit.

The other night I had a dream.

I am one of the few people who use VC over Magit.

I've written a number of announcement/introductory-style posts about using different static site generators, as well as more technical posts about implementing various features in my Org-to-HTML export scheme.

Inspired by a post on general website improvements and a post on enhancing website longevity, neither of which I can now find, I made some changes to my website!

This post is a bit late, but I've moved all of my code from GitLab to Codeberg.

For bettor or worse, I've been using Pass to manage my passwords since around mid-October of last year, and although I like its simplicity, using it was always intimidating.

After maybe 8 hours of distracted effort, my website now builds its comments from webmentions instead of using Cusdis.

Probably three years ago now I got into the hobby of foraging for fungi.

Some time ago, I started using Org to manage my contacts and wrote a backend to export my contacts file to vCard, and I'm finally writing a post about it.

I'll open by saying that my password solution up until about yesterday was not great.

Ever since moving everything to the HTML exporter I adapted from ox-slimhtml, I've been admittedly pretty enamored with the machinery involved in publishing this site.

After two years with Mu4e, I have moved over to Gnus as my mail client.

Managing finances has always been a bit painful, but I've recently finally become somewhat comfortable with Ledger to make a report that's made the whole process easier.

I have taken an interest in chemistry, and have taken to using org-noter to take notes on the books that I read.

Just a notice, I originally published this in December of 2021, but I updated it in May of 2023 for "readability".

Just when I thought I was done adding things to Super Pi, I discovered another thing to add: a WebDAV server.

One of the things that was interesting to me about Org-mode is how people from myriad vocations find it useful in (if not integral to) their day-to-day workflow.

A previous post went over how to create figures using a wrapper around Ox-Slimhtml's link transcoder.

I admit that this part of Super Pi probably isn't the best use of resources.

I'm using Ox-Slimhtml to generate this website now, and it works great once it's configured as long as you don't need anything it doesn't provide.

This post marks the move from generating this website with Weblorg to Org publish with Ox-Slimhtml.

I thought of another configuration component to add to my Super Pi: a firewall.

I'm feeling good about everything being behind an NGINX proxy, but I'm not a fan of the red shield in my browser notifying me that the connections are insecure because I'm not using HTTPS.

I don't have a great reason for running a Git server on my network, except for maybe the old adage about storing data in three places.

My next task was to proxy the Pi-Hole UI with NGINX instead of Lighttpd, following this guide with a few customizations.

It would be nice if I had an automated way of renewing my IP address with DuckDNS.

I wanted a WireGuard VPN to have Pi-Hole on the go.

So I have quite a few Raspberry Pi computers, five in fact.

I wanted to write a few posts on how I use Emacs.

I think if there's one thing I struggle with, it's probably routine maintenance.

This post has proven to be a difficult one to write.

So this is the inaugural post of my new website.

In this article I'm going to try to remember what I did to get my computer to talk to a Python app over HTTPS hosted on my Pi.

This past week I decided to update my website.

In this post, my plan is to provide a comprehensive walkthrough of how I generated this site on my Windows machine.

The day is finally here, I rewrote my website with Pelican and it's live!

It turns out putting up this website has been a great thing because it's gotten me thinking a lot.

This post marks the debut of my website.