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This is the place where I put all of my ramblings, rants, essays, and random thoughts and ideas. You can find links to other blogs that I follow on my blogroll.

For more short-form content, you can find me on my instance of the social/microblogging platform Pleroma.

2020

2020-11-30 One Week Flip Phone Challenge
2020-11-02 Gemini is Up and Running
2020-09-24 Gomuks is the Best CLI Matrix Client

August

2020-08-30 Why IRC is Still Good in $CURRENT_YEAR
2020-08-29 BTW, I Use Arch
2020-08-27 Nope, Back to st
2020-08-22 Setting Up WeeChat Again with weechat-matrix
2020-08-21 My Top 10 Most Used Commands
2020-08-14 The Hacker Quarterly Magazine
2020-08-13 Ethical Investing
2020-08-12 Choosing An Investment Brokerage
2020-08-11 The Marble Man
2020-08-10 My Preferred Fediverse Mobile Client
2020-08-09 Posting Statuses on Pleroma with a Shell Script
2020-08-08 How to Not Make an Ass of Yourself in Online Discussions
2020-08-08 Gentoo Isn’t for Me
2020-08-06 Adding Image Optimization to My Static Site Generator
2020-08-05 Use xterm-256color With Alacritty For Better ls Output
2020-08-03 My Journey With Computers
2020-08-02 The Vortex ViBE Mechanical Keyboard

July

2020-07-29 My Git Server Was DDoSed
2020-07-25 Mastodon to Pleroma — 3 — Shutting Down Mastodon
2020-07-25 I Was Wrong
2020-07-24 Switching From St to Alacritty
2020-07-23 Two Truths and a Lie
2020-07-23 Mastodon to Pleroma — 2 — Customizing My Instance
2020-07-21 Mastodon to Pleroma — 1 — Setting up a Pleroma Server
2020-07-19 Two Months with aerc
2020-07-17 My Attempts to Fix My Mastodon Instance
2020-07-16 Why I Hate The Term “Modern”
2020-07-15 Be A Good Netizen
2020-07-14 Installing Debian 10 Buster with Encrypted LVM and btrfs Subvolumes
2020-07-13 Using the “rm” Command with Trash
2020-07-13 New Desktop Checklist
2020-07-12 New Server Checklist
2020-07-12 Machine Hostnames
2020-07-11 Colours for Gitea Issues
2020-07-09 Migrating My Wiki Off of MediaWiki
2020-07-08 My TODO Solution
2020-07-07 Are TODO Applications a Waste of Time?
2020-07-06 Improving Blog Searching
2020-07-05 Switching to cgit
2020-07-04 Generating My Geek Code
2020-07-03 Adding Search to my Blog
2020-07-02 A Month-and-a-Half of Self-Hosted Email

June

2020-06-28 How I Keep My Home Directory Clean
2020-06-27 My First CTF
2020-06-26 Use Syncthing to Sync Things
2020-06-26 Why dwm’s Window Swallowing Patch Can’t Swallow tmux
2020-06-23 Switching to Debian Sid
2020-06-22 My LWN Theme
2020-06-21 Reflecting on 50 Days of Blogging
2020-06-20 How to Create an RSS Feed for Your Blog — 3 — Automating Updates
2020-06-19 How to Create an RSS Feed for Your Blog — 2 — The Basics
2020-06-18 How to Create an RSS Feed for Your Blog — 1 — Why?
2020-06-16 My Beginnings with Gentoo
2020-06-15 My New T420s
2020-06-14 Announcing kontaktdb
2020-06-13 How I Manage My Dotfiles
2020-06-12 Making My Site Easier to Read
2020-06-11 Improving My Blog Post Publishing Script
2020-06-11 Trying Out dwm
2020-06-09 Setting Up a Status Page
2020-06-08 Scripting My Way to Success
2020-06-07 Curating My Blogroll
2020-06-07 Why Email is the Best Discussion Platform
2020-06-02 Toggling Between Indentation Styles in Vim
2020-06-02 My Custom XP System for DnD

May

2020-05-31 It Doesn’t Have to Be Perfect
2020-05-29 Book Review: The Mediocre Programmer
2020-05-28 A Quick Rant About Web Font Sizes
2020-05-27 I Like Perl
2020-05-26 Choosing a Self-Hosted Git Service
2020-05-25 Going From User to Contributor With FOSS
2020-05-25 Paying for Software
2020-05-23 Two of the Most Valuable Lessons I’ve Learned
2020-05-22 Rewriting My Static Site Generator
2020-05-19 Self-Hosted Email is Now Live!
2020-05-19 Attempting to Replace My Thinkpad’s Touchpad
2020-05-18 Trying Out aerc
2020-05-17 Setting Up GPG Keys from Scratch
2020-05-16 Self-Hosting Email
2020-05-15 Preparing to Self-Host Email
2020-05-13 Diving Deeper Into the Small Internet
2020-05-12 Setting Up A Gopher Site
2020-05-11 A Brief Review of Fedora 32
2020-05-10 Why I Love the Fediverse
2020-05-09 Submitting a Bug Report to FreeBSD
2020-05-08 Cat -v Considered Harmful
2020-05-07 Unsure What To Write
2020-05-07 The Joys of Old Tech
2020-05-05 Refining My NeoMutt Configuration
2020-05-04 Star Wars: The Clone Wars Finale
2020-05-03 The Diefenbunker Museum
2020-05-02 The Disappearance of One
2020-05-01 Caring About SEO

April

2020-04-30 I Got More RAM!
2020-04-29 Some Interesting Things For Today
2020-04-28 How Far Translation Tools Have Come
2020-04-27 Tweaking Some CSS
2020-04-26 I Ran Out of RAM… Again
2020-04-25 Why I Blog and #100DaysToOffload
2020-04-11 Decommissioning My Rackmount Server
2020-04-07 Doing Some House Cleaning

February

2020-02-28 Redesigning My Website’s Logo
2020-02-24 Making My Own Vim Statusline
2020-02-14 Switching from urxvt to st
2020-02-06 Making My Website More Accessible

2019

2019-12-30 Automating the Publishing of Articles
2019-12-21 How to Argue Effectively
2019-12-20 The Difficulty of Educating People About Online Privacy
2019-11-23 China
2019-06-20 Why I Switched Back to Firefox from Qutebrowser