Photo taken in July 2016 at Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area in Las Vegas, Nevada with a Sony Alpha α7II, FE 28mm F/2. Finally settled into Hugo. Seems that for now it’s ushered in a boon of reading and writing. Transitioning content from ghost was necessarily manual so I could re-read/edit/remove. It’s felt good to clean house a bit. Also adding a travel section so I can remember places that I’d like to go visit. ...
Ghost has been a bit of a wild ride over the last two years. What I’d started with would now be considered ghost-legacy which was their 0.11.x series of releases. For a little while I’d actually been able to comfortable package it in the AUR. I’d abandoned packaging when ghost-cli became a requirement. Without a package I resorted to excessively using the --no-setup-<stage-name> and become increasingly frustrated with the quirky and aggressive release schedule of ghost and ghost-cli. ...
A while back I’d opined on spending a couple years moving around different service providers in search of a couple objectives. The objectives, in short, were: to be able to use the upstream distribution media for installation rather than deploying a pre-packed image. to be able to use distribution kernels to be able to use full disk encryption The rational for these things can be generally argued against based on preferences that one may have for their ecosystems, but these were the primary things I’d wanted to find in a provider for a long time. ...
Photo taken in July 2016 at Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area in Las Vegas, Nevada with a Sony Alpha α7II, FE 28mm F/2. Little late… I’ve been dragging my feet as on writing as I’ve become irritated (maybe for the final time) in the direction Ghost is headed. I’ve been mucking about with Hugo and am trying to decide on exactly how I want things to look before transitioning. ...
This will be a pretty curt post, just trying to remember how this was done. The rationale for using gpg-agent as your ssh-agent is: maintain physically separate ssh key-pairs outside of GPG, mainly because as much as gpg is trusted the gpg-agent, documentation, and associated configuration files are a little confusing. Utilize the gpg-agent for ssh-agent, providing you with the ability to have your key unlocked once per session and a consistent look and feel for the unlocking process via pinentry-curses. ...
Photo taken in July 2016 at Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area in Las Vegas, Nevada with a Sony Alpha α7II, FE 28mm F/2. Couple days late due to some travel, but this one was larger than my first attempt. Culture # There was an interesting article about bloat in our current web experience titled the The Bullshit Web which was pretty dang interesting, especially for those of us who are between 30 and 40 and watched this phenomena occur pretty intimately. ...
We have a central instance of smbd that we allow users to have home directories on, as well as project specific shares. It’s a beefy ZFS on Linux instance that we call “tank” in reference to Jeff Bonwick’s discussion of the humble ZFS beginnings within Sun. We run a backup strategy between it and a couple other trailing-mirrored instances that we’ve positioned around the facility. We’ve been eyeing ceph but are waiting to see how BlueStore pans out in the next major ceph releases. ...
A lecture called The Two Cultures had been referenced several times in discussions that I’ve found interesting, so I snagged a modern print of the essay to spend some time with. I’ve read the print from 1959 instead of the follow up print from 1963. This text is based on a talk, so its delivery is conversational. I feel that it can be summarized, maybe in too much of a reductionist sense, with this quote from the text: ...
Photo taken in July 2016 at Hoover Dam in Boulder City, Nevada with a Sony Alpha α7II, FE 28mm F/2 and 21mm F2.8 Ultra-wide angle conversion. Stumbled across Chris Stucchio a while back and saw that he would dump interesting links into a round up style blog post, have always felt like that was a good way to keep tabs on interesting articles. I’m lazily attempting to shoehorn everything I find into packet of late, but attempting to write down why it’s interesting will likely force me to critically think a bit more about what I’m attempting to hoard. ...
Frequenting /r/printsf sometimes you’ll see someone talking about a text you enjoyed with references to sampling other authors. Peter Watts kept showing up so eventually I wanted to sample the work he is most lauded for (currently Blindsight). Blindsight and its sidequel Exchopraxia were released in omnibus form as Firefall. These were impressive texts, but when looking more into him I became enamored with the nuggets of lore spread around his website. ...