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Changed up my site's philosophy
January 15, 2025
Earlier, my site used to have two parts in my git forge; blog, and Solarized-Flex. “blog” contained just the text and the pelican config, while “Solarized-...
Fauxspresso Lemonade
December 10, 2024
Okay, this is actually an aeropress limeade. This is sort of a modified version of an aeropress recipe from Coffee with April Ingredients 13 grams coffee,...
Making the "compose" subcommand available to docker CLI in fish shell
November 27, 2024
Development tools today are very complicated to install and deal with, the foremost of which is the docker CLI. You install it via shell script on most...
Things to do on an upcoming flight
October 26, 2024
I hate flying. It's incredibly boring, the security circus is pointless and brings out the worst in co-passengers, more time is spent waiting for things to...
Minimally useful Github workflow for Emacs packages
September 2, 2024
Melpa is one of the most popular and probably the most accessible emacs package repository to publish to. All you need to do is add a ‘recipe’ to the melpa...
Games I want to emulate
April 19, 2024
I like older games a lot, I grew up playing the gameboy pokémons and the gameboy advance fire emblems on my cracked PSP. I did play a couple of actual PSP...
Participating in the Spring Lisp Game jam, why and how
April 17, 2024
Discussion at lobste.rs Please participate in the jam! If you’re on this webpage, there’s a good chance you’re already into lisp, or that the new notation...
How to act on command output containing spaces in Bash loops
February 27, 2024
Bash is weird Whenever you make an input in bash, it gets split into "words" based on whitespace. Usually, this is what you want, and it lets you write...
When you might want classes
February 19, 2024
The web version of the crafting interpreters book is available to read for free. It uses Java, a popular Object-Oriented language to explain the...
Write your first drafts with pen and paper (...if you are able to, at least)
February 10, 2024
Write your first drafts with pen and paper Why would you ever do this? If the absolute volume of activity online is stopping you from undertaking creative...
Reading CBZ Manga in emacs
February 1, 2024
After purchasing a physical copy of the popular Naruto manga's volume 3, I set out to read the rest of the chapters until the end. I've obtained an archive...
Making a resume in typst on my first time using it
January 18, 2024
I decided to update my resume today, just for fun. I originally wrote it in Overleaf, the online LaTeX compiler, but for a while, I've been meaning to...
How to make a like counter on a static site, linked to Mastodon
January 16, 2024
Associating a mastodon post with a blog post The Pelican static site generator uses Jinja to fill in files provided by the theme in use with variables. These...
My first SRE/DevOps meetup, and a fun comedy show
January 13, 2024
The Meetup Last Saturday at 10 AM (I know, pretty early) I went to an SRE meetup I found on Meetup.com. There were about 5 talks, two of which were...
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