PolyWolf's Blog

To preface: I've been doing pretty well for myself at minimizing my cloud spend.

my dog is the cutest ever and these photos do a terrible job of explaining her cuteness so i'll do so between each picture <3 whenever i come home (to my parents' house), she greets me with a lot of trills & tail wagging she's always carrying a toy in her…

FreshRSS has a feature where, if an RSS feed doesn't have full-text articles, it can fetch the page that's linked and extract the page's HTML content from a CSS selector.

https://tante.cc/2025/03/03/who-is-free-software-for/ Interesting read from @tante.

https://ixm.one/ "But PolyWolf!"

Before, when I was still using Spotify, I used their weekly mixes (Discovery, New Releases) and per-song "radio" as my primary method of discovering new music.

I was on a 2-week long trip in Japan!!

https://marcan.st/2025/02/resigning-as-asahi-linux-project-lead/ Sad day.

A previous version of this post contained some factual errors.

My blog is hosted with CloudFront pointed at an S3 bucket, automatically updated to whenever I push a commit to the GitHub repository containing the sources.

First, let's start with a related "neat trick" that lets you write composable macro_rules!.

Pretty good.

For those unaware of what that means: it is bowling slang for "three strikes in a row".

2025-07-22: Do a V7 Boulder Update My Wardrobe Run a Half-Marathon (again) Wow, I haven't blogged since last year!

At long last, I finally set aside some time to go thru my Cohost data export & salvage some posts for this blog!

So we don't really "do Agile" at my job.

I've updated the CSS in my post composer to be a bit more like the CSS in my actual blog; we have better link, code, & blockquote styles, to be specific.

So as to not bury the lede: 1: Tanger - Prefer Not To Say It's really really good.

So.

https://izzys.casa/2024/11/on-safe-cxx/ Important piece.

On my toy compiler, I have a lot of AST manipulations I need to do.

A somewhat-common complaint I see on bsky/fedi is "gah, these darn character limits, if only i had somewhere to jot down longer posts, i would be incentivized to post to my blog most often. alas, i have to open a text editor on my computer and fumble arou…

https://sunnexo.moe/hyperlink you may recall from a previous blog post that I am a fan of Sunnexo, and also a fan of their devlogs where they describe what goes into their piece!

if you've followed me for long enough, you'll know i'm not one for big statements around big events. however, this event is simply too big to ignore. there will be grief today, there will be grief tomorrow, there will be grief when he formally assumes pow…

this orange one.

making this a daily thing, i think. just a couple hours each evening. p chill, p scuffed stream setup, hop by if ur interested!

For reference, here's my previous network topology: Verizon -(fiber)-> fiber-to-ethernet box -(ethernet)-> router -(coax)-> wifi extender -(ethernet)-> switch -(ethernet)-> my computer Yeah, it's pretty cursed, I know.

I took these pictures while visiting a friend at RIT.

I crossposted my last blog post to my Mastodon and Bluesky accounts, because I have no idea how much traffic my RSS feed is getting, and seeing funny numbers go up in response to people acknowledging my post feels good.

as mentioned in my projects page, i'm writing a toy compiler called PolyWolf's C Compiler based off the book Writing a C Compiler.

Breakpoints!

Usually, my music workflow goes like this: Discover new music on Spotify Deezer, sometimes YouTube Keep a "canonical" list of songs I like in a YouTube playlist, transferring over my Deezer likes every once in a while Once that list grows to about 100-150…

I have been having a jolly old time subscribing to people's blogs, new & old, w/ RSS.

my final chost save the world. love each other. love yourself. miss you, see you again, goodbye AWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO yeah :'(((((( in other news, this blog has "proper" tag support now, and my post editor works better on mobile (fixed the font size). st…

NOTE: this should be understood less as general-purpose advice, and more as a manifesto that applies to me personally.

Originally published on Cohost. now that Astro has their Content Layer API coming in their next major release, I'm suddenly a lot more flexible in how I can host the markdown files that power my blog, no longer limited to just "checked in to the Git repo".

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Originally published on Cohost.

Originally published on Cohost. another good manga by Inio Asano. follows a group of girls from middle school onwards as they navigate an ongoing alien invasion in Tokyo. i finished it today, really liked it up until the last volume, at which point it sor…

The following are a series of short posts, each done in response to viewer "asks" (presented in blockquotes for context).

Originally published on Cohost.

Originally published on Cohost.

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Originally published on Cohost, across 2 posts. wow turns out i am a sucker for unconventional artsy stories dealing with the human psyche.

Originally published on Cohost.

Originally published on Cohost. i read the first 4 volumes in a day, then had to pace myself with the last couple because i didn't want to waste a drop of goodness. it has the best possible ending. everything was leading up to that moment. i'm so glad i w…

Originally published on Cohost in 2 parts.

Originally published on Cohost.

Originally published on Cohost in 2 parts. alias prune="git remote prune origin | sed -n -E '/polywolf/ s/.

Originally published on Cohost.