I swear, I'm surrounded by people who want to watch me waste my time. I was telling the Purdue Linux Users Group about the wonders of RSS and how great it is, but my friend overheard the conversation and said, jokingly, "You should do Bad Apple, over RSS". I whined, complained, claimed it would be "too easy" and that "I need a harder project"....
This is meant as a tutorial on how to use a VPS to get a public IPv4 address for self-hosting reasons. Often, people want to run a server out of their college dorm that doesn't give them a public IPv4 address, or out of their house from behind CGNAT. It's a simple solution and an excellent alternative to software like Rathole or Cloudflare Tunnel...
"Behold, student, and behold the place Where you with typesetting must arm yourself." How frozen I became—and powerless then, Fear for yourself now, have you an ounce of wit, What I saw, a being of life deprived. The Spirit of College Students sorrowful Entombed within their LaTeX plight NixOS "broke" my Obsidian install. Instead of fixing the...
I glanced at the clock on my bedside table. Three in the morning. My brain was churning—useless ideas, sweet nothings, anything but the urge to fall asleep. Hardly is my annoyance out when a vast image out of spiritus mundi troubles my sight: somewhere in the sands of my consciousness, a shape with penguin body and the head of an apple, a gaze as...
So I (mostly) stopped using GitHub a while back. Unfortunately for me, my CMS Grav requires plugins to be hosted on GitHub. As my KaTeX plugin is developed on Sourcehut, this makes publishing the plugin a little difficult. However, I have come up with an ingenious solution—mirror the Sourcehut repository to GitHub. It's really easier than it...
Competitiveness is a vice of mine. When I heard that a friend got Linux to boot off of NFS, I had to one-up her. I had to prove that I could create something harder, something better, faster, stronger. Like all good projects, this began with an Idea. My mind reached out and grabbed wispy tendrils from the æther, forcing the disparate concepts to...
As some of you may know, I go to college in the midwestern United States. This means that the land here is pretty flat, and my classes are like a mile from my apartment. Why would I want to walk back and forth multiple times a day when I could do it in style. Of course, I am not the only one beridden by this plight. Popular solutions include: The...
After years of yearning, longing, and pining (let's not forget pining), I finally got myself an actual server. Or rather, a friend of mine got sick of listening to me whine about my old, terrible server, and gave me a spare that he cannibalized for parts (but was still very good and usable). I am now the proud owner of an HPE ProLiant DL360 Gen9....
I am out of ideas to write about. There, I said it. My problem is that I want to always write long-form content because I feel like anything else isn't "good enough" for this blog. So, I decided to diversify. Introducing: Ersei 'n Notes! Similar to Jim Nielsen's Notes, I want to share cool stuff I read. There's too much noise on Mastodon, and I...
I meet a lot of nerds—some are even of the Computer Variety! Since I'm obsessed with RSS, my first1 question boils down to "do you have an RSS feed I can subscribe to?" You know what they say about assuming. Time Building a website is time-consuming! Doing anything more than slapping together something in HTML and throwing it on GitHub pages in...