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I just got home from vfw.

https://noyaml.com/ yaml is cursed

What aspects of your cultural heritage are you most proud of or interested in?

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What brands do you associate with?

What would your life be like without music?

How often do you walk or run?

What are your favorite types of foods?

What’s your favorite word?

I bought all the parts for this back in March at Micro Center. i9-13900k, RTX 4080, 64 gb RAM.

I bought a new keyboard at micro center last week!

What are you doing this evening?

Name the professional athletes you respect the most and why.

Describe your ideal week.

If you had to give up one word that you use regularly, what would it be?

Are you holding a grudge?

I’ve been to Rome three times and made sure to get a photo in the same place in the Roman Forum.

Share a story about the furthest you’ve ever traveled from home.

Tell us about the last thing you got excited about.

Why do you blog?

I set up a handy way to permalink my bluesky posts with a quick nginx config change.

What was the last thing you searched for online?

Dogs are good.

What TV shows did you watch as a kid?

Diff output from git can be hard to read.

Update: there’s a proposal in WordPress core to merge sqlite support: https://make.wordpress.org/core/2023/04/19/status-update-on-the-sqlite-project/.

I’ve gotten sick of explaining why matrix is bad over and over so I’m gathering my thoughts and some points here and publishing it so i can link to it. no moderation capabilities bridges don’t work well and are 1-way in order to siphon users to matrix it’s

tl;dr I got bit by an interface naming change (bug?)

I finally got sick of some outstanding bashblog bugs and decided to rewrite my blog with hugo Why fix something that ain’t broken?

Howdy friends!

Update: As of git 2.28, there’s a new configuration option and you don’t need to use the templateDir option: git config --global init.defaultBranch main Changing git’s default branch name has come up recently as an easy action we can take to update our la…

Inspired by tomasino’s recent post, I’d like to detail some of the stuff that I rent and use.

It’s been quite a long time since i posted anything here on this blog.

I’ve recently been working on setting up Drone CI on the tilde.team machine.

Last week, I did some maintenance on the tilde.team box.

So you decided to try WeeChat?

After the fiasco earlier this week, I’ve been taking steps to minimize the impact if tilde.team were to go down.

We had something of an outage on november 13, 2018 on tilde.team.

I just got back from a 10-day backpacking trip to Italy and I’d like to share some of the photos I took!

I somehow stumbled upon utterances today at lunch.

I figured I should probably get some notes down about moving off google.

Let’s start by saying I probably should have done a bit more research before diving head-first into this endeavor.

Now that tilde.team is on a fancy-shmancy new dedi server, I’ve tried to get a secondary IP address assigned to a LXD container (which I plan to use for my personal stuff).

Finally got around to updating my dotfiles to use gnu stow.

I’ve created a repo for the tilde.team customizations to bashblog.

I finally got my drone out this summer to take some more pics!

Since the last time I wrote a post here, I’ve registered the tildeverse.org domain and started moving some services over that were already intended for tildeverse use.

Hey hi hello!

A common and seemingly reasonable argument for white pride or white nationalism is: why can’t I be proud of my culture?