Note
I originally wrote this on 2021-03-11. I have kept this up-to-date with my various gripes and frustrations (and even the few things that have been fixed) as I come across them.
Introduction
I have used instant messaging programs essentially since the world wide web began. I have used IRC …
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For quite a while, I have been running an elasticsearch cluster of 5 nodes internally. They all talk to each other happily, but there is no authentication. I wanted to add some security with SSL and authentication. I checked out the elastic documentation, and the thought of managing a bunch …
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Written by kellya in misc on 2021-11-09.
I have loved Slack and have used it for a very long time. It is the standard by which I judge all other chat platforms. While it's certainly not perfect, it's as close to perfect as any of the options out there, and the mobile client in particular is stellar …
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Written by kellya in misc on 2021-11-09.
For the longest time, I had been against "dark" themes on my computer. Much of the time the colors were just not optimized and so many things were hard to see because of that. That was a long time ago, and now dark themes have gotten more love than they …
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Written by kellya in misc on 2021-07-26.
I have been toying with IPFS for quite a while. Typically just hosting decentralized file shares for things that I post to reddit. Today I decided "since I am publishing arachnitech.com via pelican, it is already a static site, and could pretty easily be pushed to IPFS. So here's …
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One of the things I am constantly trying to do better is note taking. I do generally prefer to take notes on paper, but I like the accessiblity of things being digital. I'm also a huge nerd, so end up trying to make digital work. I have tried various things …
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Written by kellya in misc on 2021-06-01. Tags: howido,
For about 7 years, I have managed my dotfiles from my home directory in a github repo and symlinked the files on the system where I wanted to use them. I recently had a catastrophic system upgrade (of my own doing) and had to rebuild a lot of my home …
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Email is one of those "necessary evils" in the world. There is pretty much no way around it, though things like Teams tries (and fails because it's a giant POS). Until Teams, Outlook was my most-hated MS creation. I think it is a jumbled mess of crap that complicates email …
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After playing with the cactus comments a little bit yesterday, I started playing with themes for this site. Since it takes modifying each theme to get the comments to work, I created a little utility to automatically modify pelican themes to use cactus.chat.
All of the details are on …
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Cactus Chat is live!
So this is the commenting system I alluded to in my last post. Today it went live, and I was able to modify the pelican template system to take advantage of it, and host it on my homeserver. So now all the comments are self-hosted, which …
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Over the weekend I saw an article about Disqus being filled with all kinds of client tracking hooks. I set up Disqus as a comment system for this blog ages ago and never looked back. It seems a lot has cchanged and my goal is to be self-sufficient and not …
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Written by kellya in test on 2021-01-25. Tags: test,
Testing an embed of a matrix live-blog bot thingy
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Creating rules with OPNSense to allow for a private GTA lobby
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Well another bunch of time has passed since I posted anything here. But I have a new project that I am hoping to share information that I find. My wife got me a 3D printer for Christmas. Specifically the Xvico X3S. Sadly, a part broke within the first couple days …
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Written by kellya in random on 2020-10-13. Tags: update,
It's been a while
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Float Switches
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Power Final
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Written by kellya in linux on 2015-05-21.
rdio and linux part II
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Relay Update
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An update on progress
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Embedded computing
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Written by kellya in misc on 2014-08-07. Tags: python,
Fun with python sockets
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Written by kellya in misc on 2014-07-29. Tags: announce,
Testing new blog software
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