Personal on fournm

Things I Wish I Had

Sat, 24 Jan 2026 15:15:00 +0000

I’ll group them up, but none of these are “spec” quality thoughts or anything. I just want these to exist. Hit me up on some messenger or whatever if you know of one that I don’t.

Unrelated to anything, I reach for the word musing too much. Is it too late to make a resolution to be slightly less pretentious?

personal dashboard

I know that there are a few of these out there, and maybe I just need to try harder into looking at configuring them. I want something that I can easily host that lets me have multiple profiles (me, family members), a public facing page for family level notifications / calendar entries, and then separate personal pages. Something that would make for a really good home page of a browser. I know the APIs of a lot of things have fallen apart and that not nearly as many things as I’d like support RSS anymore, but I feel like at a glance email counts, calendar appointments, to do deadlines, new notifications on different platforms, and maybe the ability to set some quick link tiles would be the real goal here.

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Small theme tweaks, ideas

Thu, 19 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Consider this a changelog – since the main social media I use is going away, well, I figured I should fix the place up a bit more.

Added :empty blockquote handling to cover pages without a description.
Added aria-label to the external links, because I … honestly can’t believe I forgot, considering how much I focus on doing that right at work. It was even on the RSS link already, so I’m not sure how I missed it.

I’m considering making use of some of the new details accordion element capabilities, but I would like this site to stay as Javascript-free as possible. As far as my view is concerned, it’s a collection of Markdown files, a few basic HTML templates, and a css file.

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August 2024: Life and links

Sun, 11 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Well. So, that whole “my friend died” thing… kind of put me into more of a daze than I expected, especially as my cat’s health declined and she passed away recently as well. Oddly enough (if you’ve played through it this will make sense maybe), Dawntrail… kinda helped with digging out of the hole from that. Good expansion, it has some flaws (I played Astrologian), but the encounters are stunning. Love the characters and setting.

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December 2023: Life and links

Sat, 02 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Been a minute, hasn’t it? I’m going ahead and putting out the RSS guide, which has been sitting 95% done for ages. I hope it’s helpful to someone. Health’s been a bit wonky, been busy with work, so on, so forth. A friend died, which… I’m going to be honest, everything’s a bit of a blur in the aftermath of that, which is why this is actually going live… quite a while after I wrote it. We started playing Final Fantasy XI as a friend group in addition to XIV, a game I’ve missed dearly. I’ve done a lot of informal writing about why I think it works so well, and I should collect that and post it here, which I’ll probably get around to…

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New theme!

Wed, 05 Jul 2023 15:55:31 -0700

Look! It’s a new theme! And deranged rambling in the description!

I’m wanting to take a bit more of an active role in posting things to here, which I know I’ve said many a time when social media wasn’t on fire, but that was then and this is the hellscape of the enshittification era. I’ve added a “Sources” tab for things that I rely on for information and entertainment, though it’s not an exact copy of my OPML on Newsblur. I also went through and put a bunch of my Youtube follows into Newsblur, so that I could actually follow them! It turns out I’d been using social media as a way to get notified of lower volume channels actually updating, and, perhaps shocking no one, that means that their uploads would get completely drowned out in a flood of all the shorts that everyone uploads now. Sigh.

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Still alive, need to write things

Sat, 01 Jul 2023 13:55:31 -0700

Okay, so, anyway. Sure didn’t see every single major platform exploding in the last year, but here we are. Geez, even having to move some of my stuff to a different registrar, seriously, didn’t expect that one.

At some point in the not too distant future I suppose I’ll be updating social media links, and I’m also going to put together actual descriptions on how to run a static site generator and maybe something about RSS as well. I’ve had a good RSS post in the past, so I should be able to just update that…

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Life in 2020...

Wed, 06 May 2020 11:19:31 -0800

So it goes something like this.

me, end of last year: I’ll try to write more this year.

2020: has a global pandemic

me: has a hard drive failure that causes frustrating data loss of my most backed up drive and makes getting a replacement drive far more difficult than it should be

me: … oh come on!

Whew.

Basically, I didn’t have one of my mass storage drives backed up because “everything on it is in cloud storage” – which it turns out isn’t a strategy that works when you forget to commit a post or two to your repo, don’t actually have all of your game saves sync’d to cloud storage, and a few other frustrating corner cases. End result, I’ve finally taken the plunge and made a Backblaze account since their terms seem to be the most favorable for what I need, the cost is reasonable, and thanks to symmetric gigabit internet, backup times weren’t absolutely horrible on more than 3 TB of data. My replacement drive is 8TB, and it’ll get mirrored eventually, but until then, I’m at 13TB usable in my main machine compared to the prior 8TB total.

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mid-2018 update

Thu, 28 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Just a quick update on things since I’ve been a bit sparse on the posts. Work and other life things have been eating up most of my time (in ways that I can’t really publicly write about), but there’s been a few things worth an update.

I’ve (as of this week) got a 500 day streak on Duolingo. I’m feeling more and more comfortable with Esperanto, I do need to get back to working on my Spanish, and I would also like to get back into the process of picking up Japanese and Swedish. I suppose a “better” fourth language to pick up would be German, though my understanding is that wouldn’t be that difficult coming from English and Esperanto.

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