My latest blog posts
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Star64 running stock Debian Fri, Aug 25, 2023 devThrough the past few years, I’ve become more and more obsessed with Pine64’s products; buying whatever they put out that even somewhat piques my interest.
My latest purchases were their Pinetab 2 tablet, as I already own their OG Pinetab, but it’s production, and thus overall development was sadly immediately halted due to the pandemic (It runs Sway and makes a great lightweight CLI-only laptop alternative), Pinecil soldering iron, as I’ve always wanted to learn how to solder and have a slightly broken PS2 network adapter in need of a quick solder, Pinebuds Pro, as I’ve always wanted to see what the Airpod-style wireles earbud fuss is about, and finally and most excitedly, their Star64 RISC-V single-board computer.
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Trying out Eleventy Another year, another static site generator for this blog… Over the years, I’ve found that while Hugo was initially pretty easy to setup and get a blog going, it’s tough to customize exactly as I wanted. The separation of themes, archetypes, and pages were way too much to wrap my head around, when all I wanted to do was publish some posts and occasionally new pages separate from blog posts, like dedicated project pages.
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CSS Grid is awesome! First blog update in quite a while, mainly because I’ve been focusing most of my attention on my Golang apps (a wiki, and various other things).
The wiki is important for giving me a good reason to really dive into CSS instead of relying on a framework like Bootstrap or Foundation as I had done previously, especially here on this blog.Read more -
My month with Golang! Just about a month ago, I stumbled across this remarkably detailed yet succinct tutorial on how to write a barebones wiki using the Go programming language, or Golang, standard libraries. Before then, the extent of my programming experience was summed up as an absurd amount of poorly written bash scripts, and my rudimentary attempts at patching in minor features to Gitit, and other stuff I used. After seeing the relative simplicity of Golang after successfully building my ‘Gowiki’, I decided to see what else I could cook up…And you can see the final product here!
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Some thoughts on the Nexus Player I received my Nexus Player about a week ago, and although I haven’t dug much into it just yet, I did get XBMC/Kodi installed and synced with the Kodi MySQL database on my media box, along the way discovering some interesting stuff about the device, so I felt the need to document them before I forget.
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Replacing OhLife.com Thu, Oct 9, 2014Sadly, just a few months after I discovered OhLife, a nice, but simple, daily journal webapp, they’ve shutdown. :( I was kind of skeptical when originally signing up given their apparent lack of a paid plan, and the real lack of monetization of this kind of service in the first place, besides simply charging upfront.
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Out with Hakyll, in with Hugo! After some fun with Haskell while trying to get Hakyll to work how I wanted it, I decided to pursue some alternative static site generators. The final straw was realizing how often I’d spend just searching Github for hakyll and checking random public blog repos hoping they were using the features I wanted to implement. If you’re not aware, there are quite a few static site generators out there, each with their unique quirks and feature sets.
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My Experience with Hakyll so far... I’ve since moved onto Hugo for all my Gitit wiki+blog needs, for reason’s stated in the linked blog. It’s quite awesome so far! I’ve come to love Hakyll for it’s simplicity, even if I’m utterly lost when it comes to anything more than the templates and route compiling. At the very least, my experience with it over the past few weeks has greatly increased my HTML/CSS abilities. For example, I’ve built this site’s theme pretty much from scratch, built off the base Hakyll template!
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Installing Sensu on ArchLinux Instead of my old and semi-broken way of simply installing the Sensu gems globally, I’ve moved onto “porting” the official Omnibus package to a PKGBUILD.
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More posts can be found in the archive.