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I recently picked up the widely hyped Xteink X4 e-reader, in one of those moments where I can happily justify purchasing more tech in pursuit of improving my life.

It's hard to avoid the refrain that AI is out for our jobs.

The king of LLM blogging, Simon Willison, has a great overview on using LLMs to write code.

We are being boiled like frogs.

Frenck (lead engineer of Home Assistant) breaks down the state of his smart home.

I love reading technical deep-dives in to system design and scaling.

If you have more than 1 server and a need to deploy multiple applications 'somewhere' on that cluster without having to micromanage - don't reinvent the wheel, just use Kubernetes.

Andy Hawthorne writes a lovely summary of why it's worth blogging: When you write, you think better.

I've been playing with Fly.io a lot recently (see my series on [deploying Wagtail to Fly.io](../2022-08-30-wagtail-on-flyio/part-1)).

With all that prep work done we can finally do what we said we'd do at the start - deploy a site to Fly.io.

Our Wagtail app needs to serve two different 'categories' of files: Static files - things that are in our codebase like CSS and JS and don't change unless we deploy a new version of the site.

For Fly to know how to run our application, we need to package it up in a way that it understands.

To kick everything off, you'll need a Wagtail site configured in a local development environment.

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What I've been thinking about in August 2021 🎲 We're slowly getting back in to weekly game nights with a smaller group.

(alternate title: Overcomplicating Things That Aren't That Important) Being annoyed with Zoom's lack of smart-background blurring on Linux led me down a rabbit-hole out of which I have only just emerged, covered in who-knows-what and left with a sense that

Some stuff that happened in July 2021 🪶 Wagtail, the open-source CMS on which I've built my livelihood recently started a performance working group.

What I've been playing, watching and building in May 2021 🎮 Been enjoying Disco Elysium quite a lot - a really engaging world, story and characters - although it does take the right frame of mind to pick up.

I use the wonderful [Home Assistant](https://www.home-assistant.io/) on our home network for a variety of weird and wonderful automations and as a nice dashboard to all the devices in our home.

A brief summary of what I got up to in April 2021 🎮 Finished NieR: Automata - when this first came out I was intrigued but not convinced I'd be able to put the 40-odd hours in to get through it.

It is 2021, a blog can't exist without an "I trained an AI" post like these trailblazers: GPT-3 tries pickup lines Max Woolf's Buzzfeed YouTube video titles So here we are.

Email is annoying.