Random Notes

I've been moving stuff to my new home server and been setting up services with Caddy. It has been a breath of fresh air after my messy Nginx configurations and Let's Encrypt setup. But I found the default logs to contain waaay more information than I needed. So here's a snippet to configure logging to stdout (for Systemd's journald) and remove some extraneous stuff that I don't need to see:

This week I encountered a post by Matti Vuori on the fediverse, and its 320 by 200 pixel photo with 16 colours intrigued me. I went for a walk with our dog and took a couple of boring snaps to try it out for myself.

Here's a short Gleam trick – that I'm actually removing from Scriptorium since it's no longer used there – but that I think deserves a little post anyway.

I use my bicycles to commute to work year round. The wet, muddy, and slushy seasons really take a toll on the powertrain, and I get tired of the constant need to clean and lubricate the chain. Especially as the oil based lubricants attract grime to the chain. A coworker hinted almost a year ago that he waxes his bike's chain and it has been less work, so I finally decided to try it.

It's a rite of passage for a programmer to write a blog engine. It's lunacy to keep writing blog engines when there was nothing wrong with the previous ones. This blog is now in its fifth incarnation, if I have kept count correctly. Starting in 2015 with a couple of JavaScript based no-backend engines, following up with the Elixir & Phoenix based Mebe, and then with Elixir & Raxx based Mebe 2. Now it's time for Scriptorium.