Blog

Welcome to the blog. Everything I've ever written and published for this site is listed below. Please keep in mind that particularly old blog posts probably won't reflect my current views, opinions, or ways of doing things and may contain broken links. For more short-form content, you can find me on my instance of the social/microblogging platform Pleroma.

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2021-02-17 Migrating from nginx to OpenBSD's httpd and relayd
2020-12-10 Flip Phone Challenge Complete
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
2020-08-30 Why IRC is Still Good in $CURRENT_YEAR
2020-08-29 BTW, I Use Arch
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
2020-08-10 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
2020-07-29 My Git Server Was DDoSed
2020-07-25 Mastodon to Pleroma — 3 — Shutting Down Mastodon
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
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
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 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
2020-04-30 I Got More RAM!
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
2020-02-28 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
2019-12-30 Automating the Publishing of Articles
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