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I have tried diagramming on a couple posts but never had a good workflow because I didn’t want Mermaid.js with a massive payload, but maybe D2 is a contender!?

I’m an amateur woodworker and a very amateur (fine, almost not a) hand-tool user, but I attended Handworks and it was great.

A bit of a follow-on from the previous post, today was only a good day because it included diving and one moldy fish that keeps hope alive.

Today it rained, I had equipment issues, and we saw “nothing good” but any day diving is better than day without diving.

As I sat on the dark beach listening to the sounds of the crashing waves and the very faint roar of thunder from the distant flashes of lightning, I wondered if will I think of this serene moment again?

Aside from being a cyclical hobbyist I don’t blog as much as I potentially could because I end up posting something on Fedi and repeating myself feels weird unless it’s something completely bonkers that I want to capture for posterity.

The Fediverse is exciting, I’ve formed genuine connections with interesting people.

I’m NOT a morning person, never have been.

… and I’m finally okay with it!

The story of The Hummingbird and The Hound, originally told in a series of posts on the fediverse.

So without making a conscious choice I’ve been using and loving some excellent Go-lang software: Hugo, GoToSocial, and Readeck.

In an EPIC bout of yak-shaving I have reduced the build time for this static site infrastructure running on a puny VPS by a factor of 5.

Phanpy is an excellent front-end client for Mastodon compatible Fediverse instances that I use with GoToSocial.

I have a blog post titled “Photos meta data: the disjointed state of EXIF, XMP, IPTC in tools” that’s been a draft with talking points since June.

From the very get go, this site has been written in markup and then built and deployed via CI/CD.

I wrote about my bookmark management journey and ended up writing a glowing mini-review of Readeck.

See what had happened was, I accidentally saw my Fedi profile not in dark mode (basically how all adventures begin).

I have been on a prolonged bookmarking/reading-later/digital-archiving solution journey.

Emacs undo is one of those things that never clicked for me, I used vanilla undo-fu until I discovered vundo via Sacha’s post. vundo (visual undo) shows a node graph and supports diff I used undo-fu for a familiar approach to undo-redo system but knew I w…

I joined the Fediverse via Mastodon five years ago and it has been a really good experience.

I went away this weekend to visit a friend and to experience hanami (the appreciation of the transient beauty of cherry blossoms, a cherished memory from living in Japan).

A year ago (April 3rd, 2024) I started a webring with the System Crafters Community, building the web I wanted to see instead of lamenting its absence.

I was looking into how Caddy serves pre-compressed files (html/css/js), it’s pretty straightforward, I just need to generate the compressed files after Hugo builds the site.

I’ve been eye’ing the PineNote for years and recently decided to check up on it.

I wanted to save my barely passable Python scripting from total extinction and write something quick/useful.

I’m not that big on marking milestones but I’m also realizing that I don’t always remember, appreciate, and am grateful for the seasons of life.

One of the best parts of being a self-hoster is being able to host a game server for your friends, right?

This post alleging extortion from CloudFlare is plausible/cautionary.

Like many others, I am frustrated by corporations that have ingested immense amounts of user generated content and are using/selling it to train LLMs1.

I’ve seen several posts and threads lately on the fediverse that take a rather pessimistic view of podcasts and advocate for written media instead.

I’m happy to see that a lot of people, both regular and “content creators”, are relying less solely on commercial social platforms.

Partial eclipse from SFO 2017 The total eclipse is tomorrow, I’ve known about it since the last one I missed in 2017, so of course I started preparing (earlier today).

Two little neighborhood kids MADE my day!

Kanata logo You can jump straight to Installation or Configuration.

Redis went from an open source license to a source available license.

I created my online Avatar in the early 2000s using a Flash tool that someone made and I really wish I could remember more about it.

Fundamentally automation is being smart about being lazy, I like that.

I like and use the Alacritty terminal emulator, but it does not automatically follow the system theme.

I don’t like seeing the scrollbar until I want to see it.

I didn’t have a good process to add film photos to my Hugo static site with consistent tags to serve as metadata for camera, film, developer, format, etc. so I cobbled together a small Bash script to collect some input and create a folder as a Hugo `page…

Sometimes it’s hard to get started with something new.

I have written before about using Alacritty as my terminal and I’ve configured it using YAML.

This blog post can also be found at 1ba87346.

A great thing about Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) is that anyone can create a thing, share it with others, and anyone else can contribute and make it better.

There’s a new section on the website for Film Photography that is being built by Hugo but independent of the blogging workflow.

I went back to look for eagles again and found that the lake/pond/ditch had frozen over but there were still a couple of eagles milling about and several black birds.

Took some photos of bald eagles fairly close to my house, thanks to a tip from a friend.

I just saw this post from VKC about updating the footer of your website, meaning the copyright section.

I have access to webhosting through the generosity of a friend and his hosting provider used CPanel and offers paid SSL certificates but does allow for SSH access.

I built a small table this weekend and realized that the thing I desperately need if I’m going to build more stuff is a workbench.