Yeah, I Skate(board)

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...