👋 again

Well, it’s been a hot minute and I’ve gotten deep into Hugo and front end dev. Man, CSS sucks…

That being said, I’ve made a ton of usability improvements to the site 😉

• Added PWA install manifest
• Tweaked RSS feed web footer for comments
• Updated RSS to include tags
• Setup OpenGraph, for pasting pretty links
• Cleaned up CSS for nav bar
• Updated FavIcon to include new logo, rawr!

ALSO, I’ve updated my LinkTree style site with MOAR links, and some better CSS / flow 🤙

I know I rant and rave about RSS alot and am a big fan of Inoreader but I know some folks like other options, so I figure I’d post some recommendations here…

• If your on Android, give FeedMe a try.
• Firefox users should try FeeedBro,
• Chrome users are gonna have a hard time with browser specific ones it seems.
• For desktop RSSGuard is nice, I’ve used it a little.
• For terminal usage NewsBoat is nice, I use it for a few high profile feeds to avoid distraction.

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So I’ve added a few new neat features to the site:

• Comment section powered by Github Discussions
• App list change list, this is still a local pre-commit hook, but I’ll eventually add it as a GH Action
• CSS cleanup, man was the article list hard to read
• Added clickable tags in the article view, still need to figure out how to add it in other views

Should make the site more usable and user friendly. Also should save me from having to spam folks with posts when I add new apps to my ever growing list.

Hey

So I’ve added some quality of life stuff to my blog. Just minor things like reading time and some visual tweaks, should make the site itself easier to read. I’ve also added a few neat app to my list ASN and fd-find. Both are handy for getting network info and making the common ‘find’ command easier to navigate. I’m a big fan of aliases for common commands, often swapping them for easier to use version written in GoLang (yay) or Rust (…yay?).

So I updated the main page to better reflect that I’ll be keeping a goofy little blog here as well. Should be nice. To be honest, keeping a formal dev blog is pretty hard for me, long form, lot of research, A LOT of pressure to make it good and stand out. I’ll still try and write stuff for it, but the only big thing I have “in the pipe” is a neat article on the rise of the #smallweb so that’ll be neat when I finally finish it. Been super busy with FHF stuff and works been busy as heck as well w/ doing CICD stuffs.

So… I created this site because I felt that having folks just visit my link site wasn’t quite up to what folks expect when they thing of a “home page” from back in the days of old. So far this page is just a collection of apps that I’ve found are neat. You may like them, maybe you don’t, but hey hopefully someone does 😅.

Anyway, I’m going to be putting updates here when I add new stuff that I find interesting, so it’s:

Intro 👋

I’ve been playing quite a bit with my new (old) laptop, a Dell Latitude 7490. Great laptop for sure. Feel like a ThinkPad, great 1080p screen, decent battery life, i7, 16gb ram, but I digress. I would often pick up and put down what I was working on throughout the day, but not having to reopen everything each time I decide to boot back up. After much digging I discovered that while my laptop supported S3 sleep, hibernation was no where to be found. I also had been struggling with getting a decently long amount of usage out of the refurbished battery it came with.

Initial Commit

It’s been a while since I’ve written anything substantial in Python. Up until this point, I’ve mostly just written little toy programs here and there, as you can probably tell from my Github’s list of half-finished projects (like any seasoned developer has).

For a little context, I wasn’t always a dev. I started off originally going to my community college in 2003, fresh out of high school, for computer science. VB (not .net) was my first real introduction to programming, aside from BASIC when I was a child. But comp-sci sadly didn’t work out for me at the time. My first semester was all A’s, but by my second semester I had hit a wall.