In my last post, I lamented not having a place to put my own stuff. Today I actually took a couple minutes to register a domain, set up DNS nonsense, and upload. Thus: this! Feels like I might have kinda lost the thread re: #100DaysToOffload, but this is fun, too.

Driven largely by a staunch refusal to learn anything too new, I’ve decided to try my foolish hand at writing one of these “static site generators”. That is to say, I’ve decided to pretend a task is very very simple, and pray that my needs never outgrow my mediocre bash skills.

My partner’s been running with a 2015 MacBook Air for a few years now, but it’s no longer doing what she needs. That is to say, it rapidly converted from “ok” to “very stinky” over the last year-ish. YouTube videos stutter. It’s madness. We even re-installed MacOS, and no dice. An upgrade was in order, and with all the remote work stuff, it needed to be a sizeable one.

Listen, if I had to pick a language to write a decent program in, I’d want to use something like Rust. It behaves in more or less all the sane ways I want a language to behave. Python’s nice and quick for Python-y stuff, and Javascript is Javascript, etc. But for some reason, I just like C.

I own far too many phones because I’m a nostalgic nitwit and I never manage to get rid of the old ones. Some were broken and replaced, and some were lost to carrier-switching. Two phones I purchased just for fun. One was a Galaxy SII, for toying with PostmarketOS. The other is the worst smartphone I’ve ever owned: the Alcatel OneTouch Pixi Pulsar.