Great show, so much talent!
Unfortunately, they didn’t do an encore because we went to the early show.
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We saw Vulfpeck in Brooklyn
Tag: Update
IRL and IRL-adjacent
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We took the ferry
We went to Milwaukee for a wedding this weekend and decided to take the ferry instead of driving all the way around Lake Michigan.
Definitely worth it, saved us a ton of driving and we didn’t have to deal with parking the car and all that nonsense.
The trip takes 2h30 across the narrow point of lake Michigan (80 miles). The return trip took a bit longer due to the high seas.
The lake was quite angry given that it’s already fall. Waves were over 6 feet and the boat was rocking heavily back and forth. The crew was handing out dramamine and ginger chews for the folks that were having some seasickness.
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Look at Bandit
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Time Lapse
I’ve been to Rome three times and made sure to get a photo in the same place in the Roman Forum.
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Dogs
Dogs are good.
These are my dogs.
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Hugo blog rewrite
I finally got sick of some outstanding bashblog bugs and decided to rewrite my blog with hugo
Why fix something that ain’t broken?
There are several major bugs in bashblog that I haven’t had the time or interest to fix. Luckily, I have my blog source in a git repo, so the messed-up files are relatively easy to fix up.
My theory is that the cognitive load of dealing with those bugs has been preventing me from writing any new posts… (among other current events).
Plus I guess I just needed a project!
The hard part
It was a bit of a struggle to get my blogposts converted over to a proper format.
bashblog maintains the tags with a plaintext link line at the bottom of the file and keeps track of modify dates on the filesystem using date -r and touch -t to keep them up to date.
This makes it hard to work with the blog in any place other than where it’s already deployed live. Additionally, parsing the tags to another format was a bit of a headache…
I ended up writing a little script to pull the timestamp from bashblog’s generated html since I no longer had the original file metadata.
Time to write more
I’m always tempted to play with the publishing process instead of actually writing.
We’ll see how well I can avoid the temptation now!
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Tools and services
Inspired by tomasino’s recent post, I’d like to detail some of the stuff that I rent and use.
Recurring Costs
Some of these are monthly, others are annual
- server rental – $135/month, 64gb model, 2yr contract discount
- proxmox – my preferred hypervisor. I find it useful enough and worth paying the annual license to use the official package mirrors – $80/year
- domains – includes tilde-related ones and my personal ones (about 10 or so) – about 30 domains totaling $500/year
- offsite backups at rsync.net – I use the borg offering for a discount since versioning is handled by my backup software – between $60-$70/year
My out of pocket expenses are a little over $2k per year.
Note that I use the server and backups for personal stuff in addition to tilde related things.
The current expenses are totally manageable as is, but if you’ve got some spare cash and want to pitch in towards tilde hosting costs, I have a donate page.
Software I run, use, and maintain
These are all free/open source.
Operating systems
Platforms / software
These are things that I run and maintain for tilde.team and the tildeverse
- mastodon: tilde.zone
- nextcloud: cloud.tilde.team
- gitea: tildegit
- inspircd, anope: tilde.chat
- postfix, dovecot, rspamd, rainloop: tilde.team email
- cryptpad: pad.t.o
- privatebin: paste.t.o
- lobsters: tilde.news
- drone: drone.tildegit.org
- mailman: lists.t.o
Our own software
There are also a handful of other sites that we’ve written collaboratively among tildeverse peeps:
See the tildeverse org and team org on tildegit for more projects 🙂
This has diverged a bit from my costs into all the stuff that I do. I suppose that means that the main cost is my time and energy. In general, these things are hands-off in the day-to-day and only take time when there are updates or something breaks.
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General update
It’s been quite a long time since i posted anything here on this blog.
I’ve been playing with gruvbox-css, decided to switch my blog to use it and finally realized it’s been almost a year since I posted anything at all.
I don’t have anything in particular to post today so i figured it would be good to give a general update since the last time I posted.
We’ve moved physical hosts again (/news post), which is now a VM on a large dedicated machine I rent from OVH. My current VM setup is Proxmox, which I’m quite happy with. The new box is pricier but has a lot more resources and room to grow.
It appears that I haven’t posted anything in so long that I don’t yet have any pictures of my dog on my blog!
I got her last may (2019) and she’s the best. She’s an English Springer Spaniel and her name is Hope.
Otherwise, I’ve just been hanging out on IRC, so stop by and say hello 🙂
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Italy
I just got back from a 10-day backpacking trip to Italy and I’d like to share some of the photos I took!
The travel plan was Rome > Venice > Florence > Naples > Pompei/Vesuvius > Capri > Amalfi / Positano.
This is the Roman Forum (with Colosseum in the background) as seen from the Palatine.
Here’s me standing next to the same piece of ancient Rome as I did the last time I visited in 2015. See my github profile for the previous one.
The inside of St. Pete’s basilica. We climbed the 551 steps to the top of it for a crazy view of Rome.
Venice was the next stop. This is the grand canal.
We visited all the main museums in Firenze (aka Florence, but Firenze is far cooler). This is the view from the roof of our hostel.
After arriving in Naples, we headed out to see Vesuvius and the ruins of Pompei. I’m not sure why Pompei has an extra ‘i’ in English, but it only has one in modern-day Italian. Look at the ruts left from the ancient chariots in the basalt stone!
Here see Vesuvius from Pompei’s main square.
We did a tour around the island of Capri. (think Capri pants, Caprese salads, etc). We also took a chairlift to the top of the island for the stunning view. Photos just don’t show the scale and sheer drop from the cliff.
This is the view from our airbnb in Amalfi. It was quite a pain to get to… but it was worth it!
Here’s me and ~supercock789 somewhere along the path of the gods.
What a whirlwind! I’m pretty sure we visited all the major tourist attractions in the cities that we visited. And in quite a short time!
There are a few extra photos here
Thanks for stopping by!
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tildeverse.org
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.
Among those are gitea and the new link aggregator (which runs the same source as lobste.rs).
I’ve also started a phlog in my gopherhole with ~tomasino’s new burrow gopherhole tool!
I’ll try to post a bit more often too with updates from the tildeverse!