Chronicae Novis Rebus

My family is Very Online™, and we need a way to chat, because shouting across the apartment doesn’t scale well, especially at night, or when we wish to talk to grandparents, or friends not even living with us.

# Intro ‘Wei: Gee, Baba, wha’ do you wanna do this weekend?

I have been looking forward to ForgeFed for a long time.

Just wanted to drop a quick note for those who may follow my blog’s RSS feed, but do not follow me on the fediverse, that a little while ago I started to post some sarcastic takes after reading Hacker News headlines - it is great fun!

A long long time ago I briefly entertained the idea of offering hosted iocaine for cheap, an Euro or so a month: I terminate TLS, and you’d get a WireGuard tunnel to serve whatever iocaine lets through.

About two years ago, I wrote a few words about my thoughts on building an ethical AI.

# Intro ‘Wei: Gee, Baba, wha’ do you wanna do this weekend?

Yesterday afternoon, my server was graced with a large wave of crawlers, hitting me with over 800 requests / second.

Previously, I wrote about why you probably shouldn’t block AI bots from your website, and in there, hinted at bots being easy to identify, despite all appearances to the contrary.

As I went through my RSS feed, I came upon an article that said “You probably shouldn’t block AI bots from your website”.

I’m an obsessive selfhoster: if I can host something myself, I will, because I like owning my own data and infrastructure, I like the amount of control it gives me, and I’ll accept the burden of having to maintain it all - it is, for me, a small price to…

As of August 20, 2025, I am no longer contributing to projects hosted on GitHub, except under some very specific circumstances.

It all started with a toot. algernon ludd 21:52, 44th day of Discord 3191 YOLD Here's an interesting observation: in my setup, serving dynamically generated garbage is considerably cheaper than serving the same amount of data from static files.

It has been a moment since I last wrote about logging, and save a month and a bit, almost a decade since I publicly stated my opinion that grepping logs is terrible (and two days later, it was still bad).

I came across Xah Lee’s Why Tiling Window Manager Sucks, and while it is old and ancient, it is also very wrong, and has been wrong on many points even when written.

algernon ludd 12:43, 16th day of Chaos 3191 YOLD Test site is going down, iocaine deployed in front of https://ap.forgejo.madhouse-project.org/ (the only site currently served by my new infra).

I’m a Luddite (and so can you!)

It’s no big secret that I’m not fond of “Artificial Intelligence”, yet, there was a time when I not only used artificial intelligence, but enjoyed it too.

Since migrating them to NixOS, some of the builds in my continuous integration system became rather slow, in a large part because of the lack of caching.

I saw plenty of efforts that aim to create a Linux distribution for non-enthusiasts, for people who just want to use their computers, and not care about the details - A Desktop for All on the GNOME blog, most recently.

Gergely Nagy 🐁 16:08, 40th day of Confusion 3190 YOLD Today I had a "need" to translate a piece of text to kenny-speak.

Every once in a while, when I need to wind down a bit, I fire up Diablo IV, and proceed to mindlessly slay demons and other creatures of evil.

Lets talk about SeX.

## Setting the stage I have used graphical desktops on Linux for nearly two decades now.

Don't.

Today is the first day of Discord, the 15th of March in the Gregorian calendar.

While I had a lot of ideas to write about, like my continued YaCy experiment, or my work on Forgejo, and a bunch of other things, but… in the time I planned to write, I ended up doing something else… Gergely Nagy 🐁 23:53, 39th day of Chaos 3190 YOLD Time…

The other day, I had a dream, a powerful, vivid one.

Shortly after posting about my wishes for a personal search engine, I received a toot recommending one: Ekaitz Zárraga 👹 12:08, 11th day of Chaos 3190 YOLD @algernon https://yacy.de/ looks like you are in the case of the middle: YaCy Use Case: Web Portal…

Earlier, I wrote about how disappointed I am in search, and how I’m opting this site out of the major search engines.

Yesterday I heard news of Niklaus Wirth’s passing, and was filled with sadness.

For a long while I have been telling myself that I write here for myself, to get things out of my system, or to just write for the joy of it, or for no reason at all.

I vividly remember the first time I installed Linux.

Search has been getting less and less useful in recent years.

Having used Debian for two decades, I switched to NixOS in September, and have been using it happily since.

After realizing I could not use WriteFreely, I was back to square one: I still had no software to build my site upon.

When I decided to start a new site, leaving the old behind, one of the motivations was that the static site generator behind the old one became unmaintainable.

A little over a decade ago, I wrote my own static site generator, which has been powering my main web presence during that time.