Hello gentle reader. I think this webpage will start out as a place to
randomly dump thoughts and links to things I'm interested in at the moment.
Perhaps I'll be able to draw order out of that chaos at some point in the
future. Until that day, I'm going to start with the bare minimum: a bulleted
list! Ok, two bulleted lists.
To-do list for this website:
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I like the default css from tilde, but I think it's time to start fresh,
and pick a new color scheme. I may style this site more like a smol or
retro place.
-
Flesh out the arch linux page. Maybe
bloggify it? I'll be adding to it over time.
- Make a page about newsreaders!
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Make a gemini/gopher page. Maybe also port my content to those platforms
here? Maybe automate that too.
BUT FIRST I decided that, though I wanted to go for a hand-coded and smol-web
kind of feel, I ALSO wanted things that might be tedious to be automated. So
I checked out a bunch of static site generators, and ended up picking one
named 11ty (eleventy) and am giving it a
shot. I can still hand-code all of the bits that I want to, and will hopefully
be able to automate any that I don't. With this decision, and some initial
setup, this site now reflects the new approach! I expect to make more changes
over time.
Other things that I want to flesh out some day:
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Linux: I use Arch, btw. I used
to use Gentoo Linux, many years ago,
but eventually moved back to Windows on my desktop at home for gaming
purposes. With the forcible EoL
of Windows 10, and the ever-encroaching, and more difficult to disable,
telemetry and advertisements in Windows 11, I was finally fed up enough
with Windows to try Linux again. Check out my
Arch Linux page to read more about that.
Spoiler alert: I couldn't be more delighted.
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Usenet: One topic I'm interested in is the current state of gui and tui
newsreaders. I'm interested in text groups (not binaries). And it was a
challenge to find actively maintained clients these days. I created a page
about
getting the pan usenet reader to work on Windows.
Funnily enough, I use
pan on linux now, but
I'll keep the guide up in case anyone else may find it useful. For a TUI
usenet reader, it's hard to go wrong with
slrn. And bonus, for those who switch
between these two clients at need: they use the same Score file
management, and the Score files are interchangeable. The scoring that they
both use (as did the venerable and well-loved Xnews back in the day) is
invaluable on modern usenet.
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Gemini? Gopher? Both? Best clients, gui and tui? Searching those spaces,
finding community? I'm still exploring this space, so perhaps just
documenting what I find on the journey for a bit. My current favorite
gemini/gopher browser is
Lagrange.
- Amateur radio / HAM and SDR hacking?
- General interests?