A blog about stuff
"Weltschmerz (German: [ˈvɛltʃmɛɐ̯ts]; literally "world-pain") is a literary concept describing the feeling experienced by an individual who believes that reality can never satisfy the expectations of the mind, resulting in 'a mood of weariness or sadness about life arising from the acute awareness of evil and suffering.'" — Wikipedia
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During this holiday break I've been doing a lot of personal tech work. I upgraded and made some tweaks to my Owncast streaming server, started up a Peertube instance to host my gaming videos, and also put a copy of Firefly III on my home server for my finances. I …
Back in late 2005, I was miserable at my job and feeling the weight of everything. Pressure at home, stress at work, and a general sense of malaise hung over me like a storm cloud. The political climate didn't help—a Republican administration was steering the country through another four …
Good morning, chooms.
We had a nice quiet weekend around here. Spent some time on house stuff, mainly clearing out the umpteenhundred boxes from the move, finishing some sorting, and clearing out some old things we no longer needs.
Some not-chore-related happenings:
So I did a dumb. I lost/misplaced/forgot/ate my Owncast server's admin password. Note for myself (and other who might need to know this), here is how to fix that when you are using the Docker container.
Pop into the docker container's shell.
sudo docker exec -it <container_id …I despair at writing themes for this blog. I've done it in the past, sometimes it's fun, sometimes it's a drag. Over the years, I've opted for simpler and simpler themes. And so, we land on this one.
This is about as simple as it gets.
I used the literal …
Some morning thoughts for this Monday. Good morning, thanks for dropping in.
Good morning, chooms.
I've been meaning to sit down for a week and do some writing, but life has gotten in the way. Or maybe I didn't push back hard enough. Maybe both. But here I am, finally.
So, I got to thinking, and as much as I liked my last site for using FastHTML for a blog, it bothered me that I was using Javascript to render Markdown.
For Reasons(tm), I've started interacting with the web from my terminal more than my regular browser of late …
(this is a repost from a previous iteration of this blog)
I was surprised that there was no easily found way to customize the font inside Reader mode in Firefox. None in the about:config, anyway. However, you CAN do it in the userContent.css file, which might not exist …