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As promised (threatened?) previously here’s the follow up post about the migration to Hugo. There’s a multitude of posts 1 2 3 covering the why and how of swapping, so I won’t rehash all of that. Instead I want to cover some of the workarounds and processes I went through converting this site. Some extra context, in the theme of docker-ing all the things, I run my two hugo dev sites and VSCode editor in dockers (potentially worth a post on it’s own, this one’s long enough), so the compose files differ a little from stock. ...

Long time, no post. It’s been a while, between burnout (oof), trips to Japan (nice), the pandemic (oof 2), and some life (shit happens) things and a bit more travelling, things have been up and down. Meantime my foray into homelabbing has gone from synology NAS running packages, to a bigger one, to Docker-all-the-things, which now seems fortuitous in light of the recent synology shenanigans.1 2 The next upgrade is likely going back to reusing old PCs in modern high storage capacity cases. ...

Better late than never, here’s my photo album from my visit to Japan, between 26th March, and 9th April The trip took us from Sapporo, where I wanted to visit my grand fathers grave, then by train down to Hakodate. Then by air down to Tokyo for a few days, before hitting the Shinkansen to Osaka. Using Osaka as a base to also visit Himeji, Kyoto and Nara. ...

It’s that time again. The current theme has served me well over the years, but it is not so friendly for mobile. The name Longbow’s Lair, has also run its course, and it’s time to re-brand it. Other than the name and theme though, most things won’t change. Oh and look out for another post soon, with my collection of photos from my recent trip to Japan.

The holy grail for mass adoption of encrypted chat and email, but I’m not going to lecture about why this is important. Instead, I want to list some of the tools that are cropping up, list some pros and cons, and hopefully keep it up to date, and help a few people keep their personal lives, personal. EFF recently put up their Secure Messaging Scorecard, detailing various privacy elements of messengers. [Update; 2014-09-17 - Appear.in] [Update; 2014-09-18 - Bleep - Open Alpha] [Update; 2014-10-07 - Bleep patch, Telegram, FireChat] [Update; 2014-11-07 - EFF, surespot] ...

Added clearbar command, first-run help & hints prompt, and use the date callback for more accurate output. New versions available in Downloads and Weechat scripts & /script

Added support for weechat’s new colour eval in buffer timestamp, which is used for bar output. New versions available in Downloads and Weechat scripts & /script

Small update to chanmon & highmon, to give users who somehow keep managing to close their buffers a way to recreate it. New versions available in Downloads and Weechat scripts / Weeget

Let highmon and chanmon bar mode use the chat separator as set by weechat’s config New versions available in Downloads and Weechat scripts / Weeget

So I finally got around to doing moving my main code stuff off my private SVN server and over to GitHub instead. You can find me here